Administrative Assistant 3

Position Title Administrative Assistant 3 About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department The Ray Wolpow Institute supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The institute is home to two academic minors, one in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and another in Human Rights, the latter offered in partnership with Fairhaven College

Goals of the institute:

• Provide our students with a global education rooted in the liberal arts that investigates the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes against humanity from various perspectives and academic disciplines
• Address the state’s recommendation to teach the Holocaust in schools by giving future teachers this background
• Promote the development of cohesive inter- and transdisciplinary courses with a strong commitment to innovative teaching and scholarly rigor
• Broaden public awareness and knowledge of the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes against humanity by creating scholarly and educational programming

 

About the Position

This position provides administrative, fiscal, program, event and communication support to facilitate the daily operations of the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. The institute’s mission is to advance knowledge about the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violations of human rights. Home to a minor in Holocaust & Genocide Studies and in Human Rights, the institute also creates educational and scholarly programming for the university and the community. The institute’s support staff communicates regularly interacts with diverse internal and external audiences (e.g. government officials, leaders from different religious communities and ethnic groups), requiring sensitive and professional communication.

This position is a permanent half-time, 9-month cyclical position. It is located on campus with the flexibility to work remotely, contingent upon department needs and university policy.

Required Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Three years of progressively responsible office experience or equivalent education/experience
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively
• Ability to effectively serve a diverse staff, student, and faculty community
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
• A demonstrated ability to independently generate correspondence of a professional quality and to professionally communicate with a diverse set of people (i.e., students, faculty, community leaders, professionals, scholars)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience producing tables/charts/graphs, forms, labels, and correspondence with emphasis upon accuracy and appearance of outpu