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The Effron Center for Study of America is excited to invite candidates to apply for its new Center Coordinator position. The Effron Center is comprised of the Program in American Studies, Program in Asian American Studies, Program in Latino Studies, and fields of study in Indigenous and Native American Studies and American Jewish Studies. This person in this position will handle the day-to-day needs of the Effron Center leadership as they conceive and implement the Centerâ™s growth plans and mission-driven initiatives. Supporting the Center Director and Assistant Director, this role will be responsible for: coordinating the Centerâ™s administrative activities as well as short and long term initiatives; supporting permanent faculty and visitors; handling daily office duties; and assisting in event preparation. The Effron Center is a team-oriented, collaborative unit. The Center Coordinator will be part of the small administrative team focused on implementing well the Centerâ™s teaching, research, and programming goals. This position reports directly to the Assistant Director with a dotted line to the Director.

Duties include supporting progress on Center leadership priorities, such as with meeting planning, preparation and follow-up, calendaring, and logistics; supporting permanent and visiting faculty with the onboarding process, purchasing, email support; participate in event planning, such as room reservations, catering orders, and other duties; and providing office support, such as answer Center phone and emails, mail, purchasing, liaison for telephony, building access, and safety; and other duties as needed.

Leadership Assistance

Under the direction of the leadership, Duties include, but are not limited to:

- Accomplish priority tasks, as determined weekly

- Manage small and larger projects, as assigned. Through regular leadership meetings and conversation, assure Center priorities are addressed, issues escalated, and deadlines met

- Attend weekly priorities team meetings and one-on-one with Assistant Director.

- Maintain Director calendar, draft correspondence and presentations

- Answer phones, and reply to emails, as requested

- Assist with purchasing, and preparing Concur reports

- Locate and share rules and procedures and policy information

- Coordinate preparations for Executive Committee meetings, including maintaining attendee tracking, arranging catering, book orders, and preparing meeting minutes

- Support faculty search efforts by coordinating visitor travel and accommodations, room reservations, interview scheduling, and itineraries

- Assist with assuring faculty and staff meet University deadlines are met for the Annual Disclosure/Conflict of Interest reporting, Faculty CV and bibliographies, and other Central Administrative duties.

- Collect information for and enter annually Undergraduate Announcement updates

- Research, plan and organize domestic and international travel during Fall and/or Spring breaks for a contingent of faculty and students, to include hotel accommodations, air travel, ground transportation, on-location meals, on-location destinations, passport/visa and Princeton travel policies.

- Anticipate and resolve problems that may arise with direction and/or assistance from the Leadership

- Assist with creating presentations

- Create and maintain confidential records

Faculty Support

Support growing contingent of full and joint Effron Center faculty, postdocs, annual distinguished fellows, and visiting lecturers with onboarding and offboarding. Additional duties to support permanent faculty may include:

- Calendaring

- Email support and follow-up

- Purchasing

- Copying

- Expense management queries

- Scheduling small meetings or gatherings

- Special requests, as appropriate

Office and Administrative Support

- Answer Effron Centerâ™s phone lines and manage EFFâ™s email inboxes

- Manage mailroom, sorting incoming and outgoing mail and packages

- Oversee internal calendar with Center meetings and events, etc

- Submit work orders and track service requests.

- Maintain physical and digital filing, when appropriate

- Manage office keys distribution and tracking

- Purchase office supplies, kitchen supports and adhoc needs

- Organize and maintain storage areas and historical files

Event Coordination

Under direction of the leadership, coordinates all aspects of on-site special events, such as Advisory Council and donor meetings, to include hotel, travel, catering and room reservations, and coordinate agenda preparation.

In collaboration with Communications and Events manager, support event planning as time permits, such as with reservations, catering orders, or guest travel

Proof read communications and participate in QA process prior to publication

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelorâ™s degree or equivalent work experience
• 3- 5 yearsâ™ experience in an administrative support role in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A customer-service orientation
• Ability to be proactive, plan ahead and anticipate the needs of the Directors and office
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, assisting others as circumstances may require
• Ability to create, produce and securely maintain confidential information
• Proficiency in a Windows environment and Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as Mac OS, and web browsers, applications and tools
• Ability to work Princetonâ™s official operating hours, on campus, and approximately 4-6 evenings per academic year
• Ability to lift up to 15 lbs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Higher Education setting, or within Princeton University.
• Experience with Concur, PeopleSoft, Prime Financials, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Sharepoint
• Experience with Prezi, Microsoft Visio and Access, and/or Adobe Creative Cloud.

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