Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 9,000 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences. Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.

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The Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) represents a new initiative by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to leverage the ability of the immune system to combat disease. The IMMCG will accomplish this by assembling teams of biomedical researchers with strong records of scientific innovation and technological development. The IMMCG will be co-directed by world-class immunologists Drs. Catherine ‘Lynn’ Hedrick and Klaus Ley, both of whom have made major discoveries linking immune cells to specific mechanisms of disease. The goal of the IMMCG is to produce novel and effective treatments for conditions that heavily impact the communities of Georgia and the United States. The new center is aggressively recruiting faculty and staff to lead projects focused on cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic disorders, autoimmune and infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer.

This position requires a high level of discretion due to confidential data for faculty, students, and staff. This position will assist the Director's and faculty of the Immunology Center of Georgia and responsible to ensure compliance with institutional, state, and federal regulations; assist in travel for the center, grant applications, faculty promotion & tenure, monitor and manage expenditure accounts belonging to the Center, coordinate facility projects. Will assist Center Manager/Administrator with employee leave, and arrangements for guest speakers.

The duties include, but are not limited to:

Assist the Directors of the Immunology Center of Georgia; Ensure compliance with institutional, state, and federal regulations; Arrange travel for the directors including hotel, conference registrations, air and ground transportation; Schedule faculty candidate visits including travel, hotel, reimbursements, dinners, advertising seminars and schedule meetings; Schedule faculty meetings and assemble minutes; Schedule in-person, online and telephone meetings; Maintain directors' calendars; Maintain timesheets; Make arrangements for guest speakers; Compile confidential information for faculty evaluations/salary; Collect and compile data and appropriate forms for yearly evaluations and promotion and tenure; Work with faculty to compile P&T portfolios; Maintain database for equipment inventory; Perform other related duties as assigned.

Associate degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and a minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience in administrative support positions, including two years at the Administrative Assistant 1 level OR a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent from a recognized State or Federal accrediting organization and seven years' progressively responsible experience in administrative support positions.

Ability to maintain confidentiality

Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases

All selected candidates are required to successfully pass a Background Check review prior to starting with Augusta University.

All employees are responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of sensitive [patient, student, employee, financial, business, etc.] information by exercising sound judgment and adhering to cybersecurity and privacy policies during their employment and beyond.

Augusta University is proud to be an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants from underrepresented groups, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.

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