Blacksburg, Virginia30+ days ago
As a representative of the FST department head, maintains frequent contact with the department's faculty and staff, and provides services to visitors, callers, and others in the department; Provides operational and program support associated with the daily activities of the department; Handles human resources responsibilities related to recruitment, hiring, salary adjustments, and termination of faculty, staff, research faculty, and visiting scholars, and work visa paperwork; Prepares graduate student contracts, coordinates Graduate student evaluations and maintains accurate and time records of students progress; Prepares and coordinates scholarship and other award payment requests in collaboration with the Graduate and Undergraduate Program directors. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College.