Career Center

The LGBT Center at Tufts University, founded in 1992, offers a space for all students to explore their unique relationship to gender and sexuality through personal, activist, and/or academic lenses. The Center provides programming, support, personal and educational resources that aim to affirm the experience of LGBTQIA+ people at Tufts. The LGBT Center believes that LGBTQIA+ experiences are not a monolith as we Understand that race, gender, ability, and class background play a huge role in access and privilege. We are committed to community, accountability, and justice.

The Tufts Women’s Center, founded in 1972, is a space open to all genders and identities. The mission is to work towards equality of all people, to claim control over our bodies and lives, to challenge patriarchal power structures, to educate ourselves, and to support and celebrate our achievements. Additionally, the Women’s Center works intentionally to address and end the damaging impacts of an enforced gender binary.

In collaboration with students, staff, faculty, and alumni, the LGBT and Women’s Centers coordinate year-round programs and offers resources for the transition to college, provide social opportunities to learn from and engage with peers, and inform students of campus events and opportunities. The LGBT Center and the Women’s Center are both a part of the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion (DSDI), which aims to center diversity, inclusion, and equity issues on campus to support historically excluded communities.

Reporting to the Senior Director of the LGBT and Women’s Centers, the Administrative Coordinator provides comprehensive administrative support. The Adminstrative Coordinator will perform the below duties:

• Handles complex and confidential situations and requests
• Oversees the daily operation of the LGBT Center and Women’s Center, evaluating workflow and productivity and providing direction and guidance to office staff
  
• Provides detailed and complex administrative support for the major processes in the Centers
  
• Monitors budget accounts, uploading financial data, and executing authorized financial transactions responsibly
• Gathers data, conducts research, and drafts reports and other complex documents and materials,
• Proofreads and edits
• Designs layout and graphics for brochures and presentations as needed
• Plans and coordinates meetings and special events, including contacting speakers, designing promotional material, and coordinating support for speakers and presenters.
• Coordinates programs and/or projects for department.

Basic Requirements:

• Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a high school diploma/GED and 5+ years of administrative experience OR a bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including word processing, editing and graphics functions, spreadsheet, and database knowledge.
• Bookkeeping or basic accounting knowledge
• Superior organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• 2+ years’ experience using/managing electronic databases/records
• The successful candidate will possess a good sense of humor, strong interpersonal skills, and a dynamic professional presence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a busy, high traffic office environment is preferred
• Interest and experience in digital media communications preferred
• Experience with college students and an interest in college student affairs preferred. 
• A nuanced understanding of various models for identity-based resource centers; an understanding of the cultural constructions of race as it intersects with gender, class, ethnicity, sexual identity, religion, ability, and other salient identities.

Special Work Schedule Requirements:

This is a hybrid role expected to be in person for programs and events scheduled in advance and occasionally for routine work, but otherwise has flexibility for remote and in person work.

About Tufts University

This is Tufts. Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway). Our employees light the way. Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world. At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you. Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most. We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging. Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world. An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen. Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at [email protected] Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at https://oeo.tufts.edu/

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