Senior Assistant to President (MP IV)

This title is in the unclassified service and is designated Managerial/Confidential. Appointees to Managerial/Confidential titles serve at the pleasure of the chief administrative officer and are not represented for collective negotiations.

Presidential Staff positions provide a broad range of administrative services to the chief executive officer of a campus. The specific position responsibilities vary from generalized administrative tasks of a professional nature to those of a highly specialized and specific nature. These positions are intended to relieve the chief administrative officer of various program aspects.

Serves as a confidential assistant to the campus President, with major responsibility for overseeing the President's Office support staff and/or preparation of major presidential reports and projects.

Duties typically include such activities as:

• developing complex analyses and reports for internal and external review such as budget requests, accreditation reports etc.;
• preparing speeches and other presidential presentations to campus and community groups;
• coordinating special projects, awards, and visits by major public figures;
• acting as a liaison to internal governance, policy-making bodies, and external community groups;
• drafting responses to faculty, student, staff, parent, and alumni concerns, and other campus inquiries;
• coordinating personnel transactions, office systems and the financial administration of the President's office.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in a professionally related discipline. Three to five years of professional experience in higher education, public sector management or campus-related enterprise; or three years of faculty experience, one of which must have been at an administrative level. Experience in staff supervision highly desirable.

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