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Project Assistant, SANE
University of New EnglandUnited StatescontractVerifiedPosted 9 Feb 2026
About the role
Position Information
Position Type
Professional Staff
Faculty Track
Position Title
Project Assistant, SANE
Employment Status
Half Time
Months
12
Campus
Portland, ME
Description
The Project Assistant will support the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) program by providing a broad range of administrative assistance and coordination.
ANE/SANE Program
The University of New England’s Advanced Nursing Education–Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (ANE‑SANE) Program is a federally funded initiative that expands Maine’s Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) workforce through advanced training, simulation-based education, and trauma‑informed clinical preparation. The program strengthens statewide capacity to provide compassionate, evidence‑based forensic care to survivors of sexual violence.
About The University of New England
UNE is Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.
Benefits Overview
ANE/SANE Program
The University of New England’s Advanced Nursing Education–Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (ANE‑SANE) Program is a federally funded initiative that expands Maine’s Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) workforce through advanced training, simulation-based education, and trauma‑informed clinical preparation. The program strengthens statewide capacity to provide compassionate, evidence‑based forensic care to survivors of sexual violence.
About The University of New England
UNE is Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.
Benefits Overview
- Multiple health and dental plan options, plus vision coverage.
- Up to 8% retirement plan match.
- Generous leave time, including vacation, sick, and personal time, and 12+ holidays per year.
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Educational benefits:
- UNE tuition waiver for employees, spouses, and domestic partners
For more information about our outstanding benefits, please visit: UNE Benefits Overview
Responsibilities
- Perform regular administrative duties for the project/department: answer phones and serve as department receptionist; type/print correspondences, reports, manuals, and the like; order materials and supplies; maintain appointment calendars; set up meetings; photocopy; and the like.
- Organize and maintain various project files and records, frequently involving cross filing/cross-reference systems.
- Compile, order and oversee distribution and inventory of curricula printing and SANE documents
- Process specific curricula reporting paperwork and prepare for local partner.
- Perform basic liaison functions with, faculty, staff, contract evaluators, or other department/program constituency routing to senior staff members as appropriate.
- Assist in the creation of meeting agendas and meeting document packets.
- Create and design materials as necessary.
- Attend a variety of regularly scheduled meetings, including quarterly meetings in Augusta; take meeting minutes; electronically disseminate minutes.
- Coordinate logistics for training events.
- Compile a variety of information from both manual and computerized records including the use of Access database
- Prepare/coordinate bulk or other special departmental mailings utilizing mail merge.
- Edit project reports for spelling, grammar, formatting, etc.
- Compile comprehensive end-of-year reports; assemble copies of reports; disseminate reports electronically and in hardcopy.
- Register participants for various trainings/meetings and arrange travel and accommodations.
- Confer regularly with immediate supervisor, other department/University personnel, and/or various firms/organizations/individuals outside the University to plan and coordinate activities, exchange information, resolve problems, etc.
- Understand and comply with the University of New England Safety Manual.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Travel to out of town trainings 2-3 times annually.
Associate’s degree in business or other appropriate discipline, plus two to three years of relevant clerical and administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired.
- Strong computer skills and proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word required.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills. Experience in organizing and maintaining moderately complex filing and records systems.
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