Program Assistant

| Position Title | Program Assistant | | :--- | :--- | | About the University | Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report. Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties. | | About the Department | The Computer Science Department supports [Western's mission](https://president.wwu.edu/mission-strategic-plan), which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity. | | About the Position | This position provides a wide range of clerical support to the Computer Science Department Manager (Administrative Services Manager C), Advising & Outreach Specialist (Program Specialist 2), and 2 Academic Program Coordinators (Program Coordinators) in order to help the Computer Science Department, encompassing the Cybersecurity, and DATA Science Programs, run in an efficient manner and to provide a supportive and inclusive educational environment for students, faculty and staff. This is a permanent, part-time (.75) cyclic position. Provide administrative support for the Advising and Outreach Specialist & Academic Program Coordinators in support of the Computer Science Department's academic programs. Tasks include: Provide information regarding program policies and activities to both internal constituents and the public; compose correspondence, printed materials, and/or resources related to program policies, procedures, and operations using spreadsheets, complex word processing techniques, and graphic design software; use database software to query records, run reports, enter registration overrides, and maintain records; edit materials for accuracy, appearance, readability, and style; assist in coordinating arrangements for program activities such as advising sessions, meetings, and events; assist the program coordinators in growing and maintaining relationships with contacts at existing partner colleges assist the program coordinators in developing new articulation agreements with potential partner colleges assist with collection, preparation, and processing of applications for the programs; assist…