Job No. 157772
- Job Title:
- Assistant to the Chair II
- Employer:
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Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
- Location:
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Atlanta , GA
- Posting Date:
- 11-Feb-2026
- Description:
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Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Department Information
The Woodruff School graduates high caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of today¿s technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future.
With approximately 3,000 students, 100 faculty members, and 80 staff members, the Woodruff School is one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 10 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.
Job Summary
Act as the primary administrative support for a school Chair. Manage and coordinate the Chair's office administrative services and prioritize work assignments. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Chair and Associate Chairs, Dean, School faculty members and staff, students and visitors. This position typically will advise and counsel: Chair and Associate Chairs. This position will supervise: assigned office staff.
Responsibilities
Job Duty 1 -
Prepare correspondence and reports; collect statistical data, conduct analyses, prepare reports and presentations
Job Duty 2 -
Coordinate administrative aspects of faculty searches
Job Duty 3 -
Provide administrative support to Associate Chairs
Job Duty 4 -
Coordinate fundraising activities
Job Duty 5 -
Organize and supervise activities of office staff
Job Duty 6 -
Maintain schedules for grant reports, proposals, spending; may provide support for multi-investigator/center level proposals
Job Duty 7 -
Maintain office filing system
Job Duty 8 -
Coordinate administrative aspects of re-appointments, promotions and tenure
Job Duty 9 -
Organize and manage budget for special events
Job Duty 10 -
Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
Required Experience
Five to seven years of job related experience
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
SKILLS
This job requires working knowledge of the coordination and management of administrative processes and practices employed in a higher education academic office. Within this environment skills in event planning, organization, communications and customer service are required as is the use of office and specialized computer applications.
- Contact information:
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
- Atlanta, GA 30332
- United States
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