Provide administrative support to the Department's academic undergraduate and graduate programs.

Participate as a team member of the operations support group focusing on process improvement to improve department administrative processes and to better support the department's strategic initiatives.

Major responsibilities include:

• Provide administrative support to the Department's Graduate and Undergraduate Program Committees.
• Support the responsibilities of the Department's Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinators.
• Share programmatic activities, requests and related deadlines with appropriate Department members.
• Maintain student records in accordance with department and university records retention procedures.
• Manage graduate undergraduate program admissions processes to include processing of applications and drafting admission and scholarship letters on behalf of the Department Head.
• Facilitate processes relating to scholarship and other funding support to students.
• Coordinate the scheduling of Food Science courses and facilitate SRTE and other course evaluations.
• Support the department's recruitment initiative.
• Facilitate revisions to program information and disseminate information and procedures to faculty, staff, and students as well as to potential students and their parents. Advise students and faculty on process and procedures.
• Serve as Department's liaison with college and university student support units, facilitate communications to and from these units, and initiate key activities with these units.
• Maintain and provide summary data and information relating to student programs for use by the Department Head, the Graduate and Undergraduate Program Committees, and others involved in external program reviews and strategic planning.