Administrative Assistant

Position: Administrative Assistant I
Position Function:

The Administrative Assistant's responsibilities chiefly fall within the following core functions, although he/she may perform other tasks as needed:

* Administrative support for the Department Head and Associate Department Head

* Business Office support

* General staff responsibilities as listed below

Salary Grade: 11

Please see Staff Compensation Structure for salary ranges.

Department Profile:

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Mississippi State University (http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).) is a vibrant and growing academic unit committed to excellence in education, research, and service. Mississippi State University is classified as an R1 - Very High Research Activity doctoral university under the Carnegie Classification and is designated by the National Security Agency as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, Cyber Defense Research, and Cyber Defense Education.

The department is home to 28 faculty members and serves approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. CSE offers undergraduate degree programs in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence, as well as a jointly administered Computer Engineering program with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Computer Science program includes concentrations in Artificial Intelligence, Systems, Human and Visual Computing, Computational Science, and General Computer Science.

Additional undergraduate offerings include a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) in Cybersecurity and minors in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

CSE also provides an accelerated B.S./M.S. pathway that allows students to earn a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and a master's degree in Computer Science in four academic years plus one additional calendar year. At the graduate level, the department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, along with M.S. degrees in Cyber Security and Operations, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science.

Faculty also supervise graduate students in Computational Engineering. Certificate programs are available in Information Assurance, Cyber Operations, and Computational Biology.

The department maintains a strong and diverse research portfolio, with annual research expenditures exceeding $4.6 million in the most recent fiscal year. Core research areas include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, computational science, visualization and graphics, bioinformatics, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, human‑robot interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and computer science education. Faculty actively collaborate across campus through research centers such as the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, the Center for Cyber Innovation, the Center for Computational Science, and the Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing & Biotechnology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Performs a wide variety of clerical duties which could be confidential in nature; operates personal computer to perform basic to complex typing assignments to include: enter data, draft, edit, revise, and print letters, tables, reports, and other materials.

2. May greet and direct visitors, when appropriate; resolve routine administrative problems and answer inquiries concerning activities and operations of department/division.

3. May answer telephone, route calls, take messages, and provide general information about the University, the department, and the programs offered within the department.

4. Performs a range of staff and/or operational support activities; may serve as a liaison with other departments on basic administrative and/or operational matters.

5. May establish, maintain, and updates files, databases, records, and/or other documents; develops and maintains data, and performs routine analyses and calculations in the processing of data for recurring internal reports.

6. May sort, screen, and distribute incoming and outgoing mail; drafts or prepares responses to routine inquiries; prepares photocopies and facsimiles and operates a variety of office…