Interior Architecture Resource Library Manager / Administrative Support

Chatham; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Chatham University seeks an IAResource Room Manager to organize and maintain the interior architecture program's materials, drawings, and publications. The role involves guiding users, shelving, assisting students, managing donations, updating vendor lists, and preserving reference sets.

The position supports faculty and students in a campus library-like space, with monthly reviews of processes and ongoing efforts to improve organization and access to resources relevant to design materials and

Responsibilities

• Be knowledgeable of the layout and organization of the room; act as a "tour guide" for anyone using the space.
• Reshelf all materials, products and samples that have been left out, or placed in the cart for reshelving.
• Assist students to help them find specific materials.
• Accept, categorize samples and materials that are donated to the Resource Room, and write thank you notes to the donor.
• Update and maintain a product vendor list, and keep a current list posted.
• Keep paint sets organized; protect master sets from each vendor as "reference only".
• Throw out damaged binders that are missing most of their contents, all samples or materials that do not have manufacturer labels or specification data included.
• Meet with faculty advisor once a month to review processes and suggestions for improvement.
• Be knowledgeable of the layout and organization of the room; act as a "tour guide" for anyone using the space.
• Assist faculty with any administrative tasks for class instruction.
• Help maintain the large format plotters; paper jams, changing ink cartridges, basic maintenance tasks.
• Help students use the desktop plotter for high resolution scans.
• Update magazines and periodicals so most current issues on located in the magazine carousel, back issues are filed chronologically in the bookcase.
• Meet with faculty advisor once a month to review processes and suggestions for improvement.

Job description

Job Description

The IAResource Room Manager is essentially a librarian to maintain, organize and manage the physical materials used by the interior architecture program for the selection of interior and exterior building materials, furniture, finishes, and equipment, and for specification documents, trade journals and publications relevant to the profession.

Job Tasks (1)

• Be knowledgeable of the layout and organization of the room; act as a "tour guide" for anyone using the space.


• Reshelf all materials, products and samples that have been left out, or placed in the cart for reshelving.


• Assist students to help them find specific materials.


• Accept, categorize samples and materials that are donated to the Resource Room, and write thank you notes to the donor.


• Update and maintain a product vendor list, and keep a current list posted.


• Keep paint sets organized; protect master sets from each vendor as "reference only".


• Throw out damaged binders that are missing most of their contents, all samples or materials that do not have manufacturer labels or specification data included.


• Meet with faculty advisor once a month to review processes and suggestions for improvement.

Job Tasks (2)

• Be knowledgeable of the layout and organization of the room; act as a "tour guide" for anyone using the space.


• Assist faculty with any administrative tasks for class instruction.


• Help maintain the large format plotters; paper jams, changing ink cartridges, basic maintenance tasks.


• Help students use the desktop plotter for high resolution scans.


• Update magazines and periodicals so most current issues on located in the magazine carousel, back issues are filed chronologically in the bookcase.


• Meet with faculty advisor once a month to review processes and suggestions for improvement.

All current student employees should notify their other manager(s) if you work multiple jobs on campus at the same time. Additionally, students may not work more than 20 hours per week (combined between all campus jobs) during the academic year. Students may not exceed 980 work hours per calendar year. Student jobs do not automatically roll over to the next academic year or summer.

Chatham University strives to promote a campus environment that understands and embraces multiculturalism while increasing individuals' intercultural competence. We actively work to build and sustain a diverse and culturally vibrant campus, which promotes employee and student success and retention.

Chatham University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Chatham University does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, age, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital or family status, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to success, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in our area.