Graduate Administrative Assistant
The Maryland Population and Research Center
Responsibilities:
• support information management team with data entry and validation
• add and update content on website, including writing and editing news items
about faculty
• keep faculty biographies, bibliographies, and working papers current
• assist administrative staff with research proposal preparation and grants
management
• other tasks as needed.
Qualifications :
The Maryland Population and Research Center
Description:
The Maryland Population Research Center seeks a graduate assistant to provide
administrative support at the Center’s main office in the Cole Student Activities
Building. The successful candidate will be comfortable in a support role updating
information systems and assisting with fundamental office management tasks.
The Maryland Population Research Center seeks a graduate assistant to provide
administrative support at the Center’s main office in the Cole Student Activities
Building. The successful candidate will be comfortable in a support role updating
information systems and assisting with fundamental office management tasks.
Responsibilities: • support information management team with data entry and validation
• add and update content on website, including writing and editing news items
about faculty
• keep faculty biographies, bibliographies, and working papers current
• assist administrative staff with research proposal preparation and grants
management
• other tasks as needed.
Qualifications :
Excellent English language skills; demonstrable familiarity with electronic systems as an end user; experience with both electronic and paper filing systems and databases; capacity for rapid learning of new procedures and systems.Graduate specialization in or familiarity with social science research preferred;experience with University of Maryland electronic proposal processing systems a plus.
This position does not involve technical support. This is a 20-hour, 9-month appointment with full GA benefits, including a maximum of 10-hours per semester of tuition remission and State of Maryland benefits. Salary will be based on the current Graduate Assistant pay scale in the applicant’s home unit.
Enrollment in a graduate program at the University of Maryland is mandatory.
This position does not involve technical support. This is a 20-hour, 9-month appointment with full GA benefits, including a maximum of 10-hours per semester of tuition remission and State of Maryland benefits. Salary will be based on the current Graduate Assistant pay scale in the applicant’s home unit.
Enrollment in a graduate program at the University of Maryland is mandatory.
How to Apply:
Please submit a cover letter and resume with three references to wfennie@umd.edu and include the words “Info Core GA” in the subject line. For best consideration, submit by 2 August 2013.
Please submit a cover letter and resume with three references to wfennie@umd.edu and include the words “Info Core GA” in the subject line. For best consideration, submit by 2 August 2013.
Maryland Population Research Center is an equal opportunity employer, EEO / AA,
dedicated to diversity. For more information about MPRC and its mission, visit our web
site :www.popcenter.umd.edu
0124N Cole Student Activities Building
College Park, Maryland 20742-1339
dedicated to diversity. For more information about MPRC and its mission, visit our web
site :www.popcenter.umd.edu
0124N Cole Student Activities Building
College Park, Maryland 20742-1339
301.405.6403 TEL 301.405.5743
