Office Assistant IV

Michigan State University; East Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Michigan State University in East Lansing is seeking an administrative support professional for the Simulation Center. You will assist faculty, students, and staff, manage calendars, schedules, and events, and help with payroll and purchasing processes.

Responsibilities include data collection, report preparation, onboarding temporary staff, and coordinating simulations and related trainings. Flexibility for occasional evenings/weekends is required.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of clerical procedures and office software.
• Experience with data entry, payroll-related tasks or payroll reconciliation.
• Ability to interpret policies and respond to inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Provide clerical and administrative support to the Simulation Center.
• Schedule events and rooms; manage calendars and travel documents.
• Process payroll hours, and assist with budget and purchasing duties.
• Prepare reports, minutes, and materials for meetings.
• Assist in onboarding temporary staff and allied health preceptors.
• Support event setup and staff coordination for simulations.

Skills

Administrative support

Scheduling

Data entry

Customer service

Event coordination

Education

Some college or technical training

Tools

Excel

Word

EBS

Learning Space

P-Card tools

Job description

Position Summary

This position provides clerical and administrative support to the Simulation Center including its faculty, staff, students, standardized patients, and customers, and to facilitate the functioning of the unit. Compiles, verifies, processes and/or analyzes complex and/or specialized department information/data; independently renders decisions; interprets information; apprises customers of appropriate actions in order to facilitate the functioning of the department or unit. Duties include scheduling events and rooms, maintaining calendars, compiling and tracking information including hours worked for payroll purposes, purchasing supplies via P-Card, and creating disbursement vouchers. The position is located at the Clinical Center (CSTA) Simulation Center in East Lansing, Ml, although develops materials for events and works with other Simulation staff both in Grand Rapids and East Lansing Simulation campuses. Simulation Center hours are variable; occasional nights/weekends may also be necessary so that ability to maintain a flexible schedule is required.

45% Simulation Operations and Business Functions:

• Receives, collects and processes complex and diverse information and independently renders decisions in order to contribute to information bases or request specific actions or to provide information for administrators, faculty, staff, SPs and external agencies.
• Prepares and/or assists in developing and compiling reports, including event planning documents, schedules, floor plans, debrief minutes, and survey results.
• Interacts with University personnel from other units and departments, students, external agencies and the public, in order to verify information and make judgments in order to ensure that records and resultant actions are correct, including onboarding new Temp/On-Call staff and Allied Health preceptor professionals.
• Schedules appointments and maintains unit administrator(s) calendar(s); maintains files and records applicable to the office, including any required travel.
• Facilitates, prepares, and distributes agenda materials and records minutes for regular and special meetings for unit administrators.
• Assists in preparing administrative reports; independently gathers data and information from a variety of sources and performs research as necessary to screen and relay sensitive information as needed.
• Completes a wide range of computer tasks, including reports, surveys, excel workbooks, tables, agreements and other documentation.
• Types, edits and proofreads correspondence, letters, proposals and other materials.
• Interprets policies and procedures to document and in response to inquiries and communicates or initiates necessary action.
• Prepares meeting rooms and audio-visual and other technology related needs.
• Orders and maintains inventory of office supplies in order to facilitate the functioning of the unit.
• Maintains and reconciles the bookkeeping records for multiple events in order to assist with budget planning, payroll, invoices, budget proposals, and forecasting. This includes:
  • Compiles biweekly Employee Time Sheet spreadsheet
  • Enters SP payroll into EBS
  • Verify and tracks weekly hour maximums for temporary and on-call employees
  • Troubleshoot SP/HCP payroll issues
• Researches and collects data in order to assist in the preparation of departmental reports.
• Completes project work independently in order to facilitate the functioning of the department or section.
• Purchase supplies using PCard
• Process disbursement vouchers (DVs) for special payment vendors or vendors who do not accept credit cards
• Create, record, maintain and reconcile monthly parking log
• Works to gather and submit SP/HCP paperwork to HR
• Enter and maintain SP/HCP information in Learning Space

45% Provide support for events/trainings

• Assist with and verify scheduling of simulated patient/HCP events; process event and training cancellations by communicating information from SP/HCPs to event Educator
• Coordinates and completes all event setup, including faculty materials
• Assist with compiling checkoff data/checklists
• Setup of task trainers, medical supplies, and materials as trained and required by unit
• Schedule and coordinate rooms/supplies for events, coaching, makeups
• Provide hall monitor instructions for events as needed
• Provide student instructions for events as needed
• Monitor inventory and order supplies and equipment as needed
• Assist in ordering event/medical supplies as instructed and needed
• Organize all setup/tear down needs for each and all events; both with event set up and take down.
• Work directly with Educators on their led events to maintain communication and consistency in event needs

5% Office admin including but not limited to:

• Greet and check-in standardized patient/s, students, staff and visitors
• Answer phones and check voicemail for main phone line
• Maintain event calendars
• Assist with specific EL campus needs, including communication with vendors, IPF, Stores, all MSU unit, which we are needing services for simulation.

5% Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired in the first two or three years in college, technical school or related field; one to three years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in maintaining account ledgers, departmental operations, employment, or in performing tasks related to the area of employment; experience in word processing, editing and composing correspondence, and maintaining spreadsheets and/or databases; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Desired Qualifications

Previous Simulation Center experience with event set up and/or as a Standardized Patient preferred. Experience in financial processing, including payroll entry and supply purchases documentation and reconciliation. Experience in human resource hiring processes, and onboarding temp/on-call staff.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Application Materials

Resume & Cover Letter

Work Hours

STANDARD 8-5

The Bidding Eligibility ends on 08/11/2026 at 11:55 PM