Hiring Now: Office and events student assistant position in The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
August 2024-May 2025
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law is an endowed academic center for interdisciplinary research. The mission of The Baldy Center is to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. It does so by supporting research projects, conferences, workshops, fellowships, visiting scholars, speakers, online knowledge mobilization through blogs and podcasts, and other initiatives.
The Baldy Center is seeking an office assistant who can assist in the administrative and clerical tasks necessary to support The Baldy Center’s programs. The position begins in August and extends through the 2024-2025 academic year for 10-20 hours per week, depending on class scheduling and academic load for the office assistant. The pay rate is $15-$18 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
The office assistant works with The Baldy Center Assistant Director and cooperates with all other staff to:
· support Baldy Center events by being present at all Baldy Center campus events (held on campus on Fridays during the academic year), and by making hotel reservations, posting flyers around campus, and setting up and clearing the event coffee supplies.
· possibly write content for our online products and/or support our social media content.
· complete office tasks including responding to email and phone calls, scanning, completing paperwork, maintaining/organizing Baldy Center spaces.
The position is in-person, on campus, during normal business hours (8:30am- 4:30pm) or as needed for events.
Applicants must be a UB student, enrolled in any undergraduate or graduate program and eligible to work on campus (see the Student Employment Policy on the University at Buffalo website) through May 2025.
Qualifications include required and preferred skills and experience.
Required:
1. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
2. Experience in a professional office environment.
3. The ability to be organized, adaptive, and reliable.
4. Strong spoken and written communication skills, which will be used in professional communication with faculty, staff, and outside guests and vendors such as hotels and caterers.
5. Ability to work collaboratively with the team and independently on assigned tasks, while pivoting according to dynamic office support needs.
Preferred:
1. Some experience in a broad array of office apps (e.g. Teams, Adobe, project management apps, basic graphics editing apps).
2. Some experience in managing a professional/UB social media account.
3. An interest in interdisciplinary studies.
Hiring paperwork will include UBF HR forms, tax forms, and the I-9 form, which calls for specific documentation (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9). You must have these documents on hand at time of hiring. Time sheets are submitted via UBBox biweekly. Payroll follows the UBF hourly payroll calendar (http://www.buffalo.edu/administrative-services/managing-people/payroll-calendars.html).
To apply, please submit a letter of application, your resume, and class schedule. Please submit application files through Bullseye-Handshake. You may email BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu with any questions. The application deadline is August 31, 2024, decisions will be made within two weeks and the position will begin ASAP.
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