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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Our Current Opportunity at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine:

The Pennsylvania State University is seeking an Administrative Assistant for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. Each year, Penn State Health Children's Hospital needs $4 million from CMN to help save kids' lives. Those funds are raised, often one dollar at a time, by individual donors, Miracle Families, corporate partners, and community fundraisers who are all passionate about changing kids' health. CMN funds life-saving equipment, vital patient programs, and innovative research to help provide the best possible care to sick and injured children in our community. Since it began locally in 1984, CMN has raised more than $91 million for Penn State Health Children's Hospital. Reporting to the Director of Children’s Miracle Network and working closely with Children’s Miracle Network team members, the Division of Development and Alumni Relations, and other University partners, the Administrative Assistant will:

• Provide executive level support to the CMN Director to include: calendar management, meeting scheduling, overseeing updates in our donor database, coordinating donor visits and travel, and facilitating special projects

• Manage administrative responsibilities for CMN including answering telephone calls, greeting visitors, tracking and ordering supplies, providing information to and/or referring questions/inquiries from donors, volunteers and sponsors, and assisting other CMN team members as needed

• Support the CMN Director with management of the annual operating budget and ensure contract obligations with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals are being met

• Assist with fundraising event execution by managing budgets - tracking income and expenses, ensuring the planning timelines are being met, and accurately tracking event attendees

• Serve as point of contact with office operations staff on processing gifts to CMN, acknowledgement of honorary and memorial gifts, contract review, and management of data requests/reporting

• Assist with scheduling meetings, gathering information for agendas, and preparing summaries for the CMN Advisory Board and its members

• Serve as CMN's primary liaison with financial officers at Penn State College of Medicine and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey