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Administrative Assistants
University of UtahSalt Lake City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 May 2026
💰 $53,000/yr($48,000/yr – $53,000/yr)
About the role
Details
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.
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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