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• Job Type: Support Staff - Union
• Bargaining Unit: Local 2110
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $62,620 - $62,620

Position Summary

The Coordinator is part of a team of professional staff who provide administrative and programmatic support to Law School faculty and researchers. Coordinators facilitate the teaching, scholarship, and service of full-time faculty, and support the activities of affiliated research centers and programs. 

Responsibilities

• Support multiple professors of law, research scholars, and/or visiting professors in preparing and executing their courses and seminars, including compiling and organizing course materials; editing syllabi and updating course websites (using CourseWorks); communicating with students; and interfacing with teaching assistants.Schedules meetings, TA sessions, and makeup classes;and receives visitors.
• Plans and coordinates events and programs (such as academic seminars, colloquia, special events, and conferences), arranging publicity, catering, travel arrangements, reimbursements and honoraria.
• Arranges travel on behalf of faculty and visitors, plans itineraries and prepares travel and business expense reports for submission to the Business Office via Concur.
• Works with faculty, students, and Office of Judicial Clerkships to prepare and send clerkship and other letters of recommendation.
• Acts as liaison between professors, fellows, guest speakers, students, scholars, and other academic institutions.
• Performs basic legal research using Westlaw, LexisNexis and other legal software databases. 
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Associate Director, Faculty Support.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Three years of highly successful administrative experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required.
• Ability to work creatively and independently is necessary.
• Must be adaptable in learning and implementing new technologies as needed for maximizing task performance. Must be well-organized, detail-oriented, and work well under pressure, managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously in a high volume operation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills essential. Tact and diplomacy and the ability to exercise judgment in matters that are sensitive and confidential required.
• Must be able to work with diverse constituencies and support an inclusive work environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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