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Administrative Assistants

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 May 2026
💰 $53,000/yr($48,000/yr$53,000/yr)

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Open Date 05/15/2026 Requisition Number PRN45083B Job Title Administrative Assistants Working Title Admissions Coordinator Career Progression Track S00 Track Level S3 - Skilled, S2 - Intermediate, S4 - Highly Skilled FLSA Code Nonexempt Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hours per Week 40 Full Time or Part Time? Full Time Shift Day Work Schedule Summary
Monday – Friday
VP Area Academic Affairs Department 00166 - College of Social Work Location Campus City Salt Lake City, UT Type of Recruitment External Posting Pay Rate Range 48,000-53,000 Close Date 08/21/2026 Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time) Job Summary
The University of Utah College of Social Work is seeking a talented, energetic professional to provide admissions leadership and support in a fast-paced, customer-focused, and professional environment. The position requires extensive in-person, phone, and email interaction with prospective students, student applicants, faculty, and other University and College staff. Candidates must have strong communication and customer service skills; organization and project management skills; and effective collegial and team player skills—capable of handling multiple tasks, projects, and relationships at one time.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities

Under the direction of the program directors, this position will:

  • Advise and counsel prospective students and student applicants on the admissions process.
    • Develop knowledge of OnBase admissions enrollment management system; serve as technical support for these systems and liaison with university and other student services offices as necessary; work with faculty and staff to streamline admission processes; serve as technical lead for OnBase
  • Maintain interpersonal communication and engagement with prospective students and student applicants via in-person, phone, and/or email as it relates to admissions.
  • Calculate student applicants’ cumulative GPA and verify student applicants’ completion of pre-requisite requirements.
  • Lead, organize, and facilitate admission information sessions for prospective students and student applicants.
  • Collaborate with advising on recruitment efforts including attendance at job fairs and communication with prospective students at these events.
  • Lead and organize new student orientations for newly admitted students into the academic programs.
  • Collaborate with personnel on the maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and updating of the admissions enrollment management system.
  • Review and verify student applicants’ submission of application material into the admissions enrollment management system.
  • Provide administrative support, including scheduling admission meetings, attending admission meetings, developing and distributing meeting agendas, constructing and distributing meeting minutes, and constructing and distributing handouts, etc.
  • Provide administrative support to members of the admissions committee in accessing and utilizing the admissions enrollment management system.
  • Provide administrative support in the form of data collection, analysis, and reporting on admissions—accepted, declined, demographics, etc.
  • Provide administrative support to members of the admissions committee in accessing and utilizing the admissions enrollment management system.
  • Lead and facilitate the development of other admissions personnel on admissions procedures and tools.
  • Act as liaison between program directors, admission committees, and individual members of the admission committees on reviewing and updating admission procedural matters and documents.
  • Refer prospective students and student applicants onto academic advisors when inquiries are related to the academic programs.
  • Inform the academic advising unit of newly admitted students into the academic programs.
  • Develop, monitor, and update the admissions website page for the academic programs.
  • Other duties as assigned
  • This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.


Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:

Administrative Assistants, II:

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