Student job opportunity: Temporary Hourly Student Assistant – Fiscal Support

Department: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences in the College of the Environment

General Duties/Description: Provide a variety of administrative support in fiscally-related duties such as:

• Assist with monthly budget reconciliation including follow-up on missing documents
• Create budget and grant file folders
• Copy, fax and sort various documents
• Maintain records, perform electronic mail tasks
• File reports, receipts, and other documents
• Enter data and maintain various accounting of grant/budget logs or databases including verify and process fiscal/accounting data, perform basic computing, calculating and manual or automated posting of data; make corrections as required
• Assist with travel-related accounting processes
• Might occasionally deliver or pick up grant proposal/award documents between the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences department and the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Grant and Contract Accounting office, or other campus departments
• Serve as back-up telephone and in-person contact, receive visitors, respond to inquiries regarding office/departmental policies and procedures (requires substantial knowledge of school policies and procedures)
• Sort and distribute office mail if needed
• Perform other related duties as required/assigned

Requirements: 

• Experience in administrative support and office operations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, database management software; familiarity with Access is desirable 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Ability to interact with a wide variety of audiences and individuals including students, donors, faculty, administrators, and students is essential
• Team work orientation 
• Flexibility to meet changing needs 
• Ability to take initiative on projects, prioritize project work, and use good discretion in contact and communications with various audiences
• Creative problem solving skills and ability to independently identify solutions to a variety of issues
• Detail-oriented
• Must be a UW student 

Position is available now. Hourly wage based on experience. Send your resume to Jessica Roshan at jroshan@uw.edu