Administrative Assistant, Student Life (10-Month Position)

thrives in a dynamic, people-centered environment.

Department/Division Overview:

The Division of Student Life at Denison University fosters a dynamic and supportive campus culture where holistic student development thrives. Recognizing that learning extends far beyond the classroom, into residence halls, student organizations, athletics, and campus leadership, our team works collaboratively to empower students to build community, respect self and others, and prepare for impactful post-graduate lives.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage complex calendars for AVPs, schedule and coordinate meetings, resolve scheduling conflicts, prepare meeting logistics, and support division-wide meetings and initiatives.
• Draft correspondence, prepare reports and presentation materials, screen calls, maintain files and records, and provide administrative support to AVPs and Student Life leadership.
• Coordinate administrative and logistical needs for Student Life programs and initiatives, including scheduling, room reservations, catering, onboarding, meetings, and other division-wide activities.
• Serve as a welcoming first point of contact for visitors, employees, students, and campus partners; manage the main phone line and general email inboxes; and coordinate incoming and outgoing mail, packages, and courier services.
• Support AVPs with department budgets, expense tracking, purchasing, monthly expense reports, and financial documentation; monitor and maintain office supply, equipment, and breakroom inventories.
• Arrange travel itineraries and accommodations, coordinate related logistics, and ensure timely completion of travel documentation and expense reporting.
• Handle sensitive employee and student information with a high degree of discretion; maintain accurate records and ensure information is organized, accessible, and appropriately protected.
• Maintain an organized, professional, and welcoming office environment by ensuring common areas, conference rooms, reception areas, and shared resources are clean, orderly, and adequately equipped; assist with other administrative needs of Student Life as appropriate.

Minimum Requirements:

3–5 years of combined experience in office management, executive assistance, or HR administrative roles.

High School Diploma

Preferred Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Admin, HR, Student Affairs or related field

Why Choose Denison?

Denison University is a leading, fully residential liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, located just outside the Columbus metro area. Established in 1831, Denison blends a rigorous academic foundation with an award-winning approach to student mentorship and career readiness. With a vibrant campus community of 2,400 students and around 1,000 employees, Denison offers employees a supportive, forward-thinking environment dedicated to educational excellence and professional growth.

Denison provides a number of staff-focused benefits, with some highlights:

• Comprehensive healthcare plan
• 403(b) retirement savings with 10% contribution from Denison for eligible positions
• Starting at 10 vacation days
• 9 paid holidays
• Campus closure from Christmas to New Years
• Free parking and gym membership
• Free classes for employees

Want to learn more about us? Visit Denison.edu for more information.

Organization

As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.

Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments.

As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type.

Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community.

Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life.
The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.

A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.

Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects.

Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes.

At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.