Senior Administrative Specialist, Criminal Justice

Title: Senior Administrative Specialist, Criminal Justice

Employee Classification: Sr Administrative Specialist

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

SubDivision-Department: UNT-Col of Health & Public Servic

Department: UNT-Criminal Justice-135340

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

About Us - Values Overview:

Welcome to the University of North Texas System. The UNT System includes the University of North Texas in Denton and Frisco, the University of North Texas at Dallas and UNT Dallas College of Law, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. We are the only university system based exclusively in the robust Dallas-Fort Worth region. We are growing with the North Texas region, employing more than 14,000 employees, educating a record 49,000+ students across our system, and awarding nearly 12,000 degrees each year.   We are one team comprised of individuals who are committed to excellence, curiosity and innovation. We are transforming lives and creating economic opportunity through education. We champion a people-first values-based culture where We Care about each other and those we serve. We believe that we are Better Together because we foster an inclusive environment of respect, belonging, and access for all. We demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities. We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our team and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.   Learn more about the UNT System and how we live our values at www.UNTSystem.edu.

Department Summary

The College of Health and Public Service (HPS) at the University of North Texas, distinguished as one of the few Tier One research universities designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), prepares graduates to address diverse and complex social issues such as aging, disability, disaster management and recovery, criminal justice, health disparities, and public safety, and find solutions to challenges in public administration, public health, and urban planning. We have seven academic departments with undergraduate and graduate programs, the Center for Public Management, the UNT Speech and Hearing Center, UNT Workplace Inclusion & Sustainable Employment (WISE) and a number of professional development and clinical training programs to facilitate careers to address a global society.

HPS students are trained to lead nonprofits, become educators, researchers and professionals who strengthen the diverse communities we serve with thoughtful, inclusive and equitable practices as audiologists, behavior analysts, city managers, emergency managers, health care administrators, public safety administrators, public health specialists, rehabilitation counselors, speech language pathologists, social workers, urban planners and more.

The Department of Criminal Justice is committed to excellence in teaching, research and service. We focus on preparing students for professional services and advanced graduate studies with integrated teaching methods involving peers. With the use of classwork, online teaching and hands-on experiences, our department offers a unique education for students. Our department is able to provide experiences to students that enable them to undertake important issues in society. Our country has an ongoing need to address its crime problems, creating not only new challenges, but opportunities for growth and justness that our Criminal Justice majors can explore and work for.

Position Overview

The Criminal Justice Department Senior Administrative Specialist provides support to the academic department and Chair, including acting as a liaison with College of Health & Public Service and UNT-wide offices. Responsibilities include providing a wide variety of administrative support to the Chair and other faculty, such as coordination of class scheduling and textbook adoptions, facilitation of program communications for the degrees, coordination of student employment requests, management of departmental tasks related to admissions and registration, maintenance of departmental and student records, execution of correspondence and calendar maintenance, requests for purchasing, payroll, and other financial support from the college, and m