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Judicial/Administrative Assistant

General Summary of Position

The Judicial/Administrative Assistant (JAA) assists Residence Education staff by providing clerical and administrative support relating to the discipline and Judicial system, as well as other tasks. This is an hourly position. The rate of pay is $.50 per hour over minimum wage, currently $8.00/hour.

Examples of Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Processes all administrative paperwork associated with the Judicial process at the Cluster or Area level.
    - Inputs data from Witness Statements into the “Judicial Officer” software. The A/RD or AD assigns appropriate charges and provides the appropriate description of charges for the JAA to input. (The JAA does not assign charges or hold judicial conferences.)
    - Prints Judicial History forms, Notice of charge letters, Finding letters, and Tracking forms for review by the A/RD or AD. Obtains signature of the A/RD before mailing letters.
    - Delivers signed Notice of Charge and Finding letters to the mailroom or mail sorter’s mailbox.
    - Performs administrative tracking responsibilities including tracking assignments and completion of educational and creative sanctions.
  2. Maintains confidentiality concerning student records and information.
  3. Other cluster administrative work as assigned by the A/RD or AD.

Qualifications

  1. Understanding of and commitment to high–level security and confidentiality.
  2. Basic computer data entry and word processing skills.
  3. May not live in the cluster in which they are employed.
  4. Must be free of current judicial sanctions.
  5. May not have other roles within the campus community that may result in a possible conflict of interest.

Supervision Received

1. The Residence Director (RD) or Assistant Director of Residence Education (AD) supervises the Judicial/Administrative Assistant and provides in-cluster training to review expectations, use of office keys and office etiquette.

Training

Judicial/Administrative Assistants attend one of the scheduled training sessions (GroupWise and network orientation, overview of the judicial system and judicial computer training). There is one training for Spring 2007 in the Crampton Computer Training Room. JAA staff are expected to arrive promptly and commit to the full three (3) hour training to be eligible for the position.

- Friday, February 9, 2007, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
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