Job Details

.Under the direct supervision of the Director of UCR's Project Adelante, the Project Adelante Administrator Assistant in the Graduate School of Education (GSOE), duties include but are not limited to, coordinating and assisting the Project Adelante Director in planning events and various activities of the project, coordination of workshops and conferences, processing participants payment via UCR's Online Payment System (ePay), preparing materials for each Project Adelante testing activities, representing Project Adelante and UCR GSOE at local school and district functions, and maintaining student and client confidentiality at all times when appropriate.

This position is grant funded and will be dependent on continued funding availability.

Five (5) years of related work experience; or Bachelor's degree in a related field with one (1) year of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of college education and experience.
Experience in planning and coordinating programs and events and recruiting program participants which include K-12 students, parents, teachers and other educational professionals (UC, CSU, CC, etc.) and ability to explain procedures.
Experience working with a diverse student population, and sensitivity to culture, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation and socio-economic status.
Demonstrated experience with purchasing fundamentals and practice. Experience costing out goods/services.
Ability to maintain cooperative relationships with school district administrators, school counselors, principals, teachers, and community contacts.
Ability to research and analyze information to formulate/implement solutions for improvement.
Demonstrated skill in accurate record keeping with strict attention to detail. Organizing tasks, documents and materials with efficiency and accuracy.
Demonstrated skill n communicating effectively and professionally using tact and diplomacy. Skill in interacting diplomatically with the public in a high volume, continuous public contact setting.
Demonstrated skill in understanding and interpreting the projects purpose to a broad audience and stakeholders/constituents.
Demonstrated skill in understanding and interpreting the projects purpose to a broad audience and stakeholders/constituents.

Demonstrated experience with student outreach.
Experience with UCR applications, including ePay, ITravel, UCRFS financial systems and Purchasing policy and systems.
Demonstrated skill in working with budgets and spreadsheets to track and record expenses related to events and activities and create charts to track deadlines.
Creative ability, including working in Adobe Photoshop or other applications, to edit photos and create brochures and flyers.

In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities' air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history, and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.

UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.

• UC Riverside was included in the (August 2018) edition of The Princeton Review's "The Best 382 Colleges."


• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (August 2017) Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Riverside among the top 151 institutions. This survey bills itself as "the most trustworthy precursor of global rankings of the world's top 500 universities."


• In 2016, UCR was recognized for graduation rate success by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) for achieving near parity across racial-ethnic, socio-economic, and gender boundaries.


• UCR ranks among the Top 15 Public Research Universities in the nation, as identified by the 2017 Washington Monthly.


• In 2017, two separate reports from the Education Trust celebrated UCR as a national leader for African American and Latino student success. UCR was one of just three schools to be named top-performing institutions in both reports and the only California campus recognized among 18 top-performing colleges and universities in the nation for high black student graduation rates.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For information about our generous employee benefits package, visit: Employee Benefits Overview