Operations & Events Support Specialist (Shift Sunday 9:00am - 5:30pm & Monday -Thursday 7:00am - 3:30pm)

Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Georgia Tech is seeking a student-centered Events Assistant to serve as the first point of contact for visiting guests at the Student Center, Stamps Commons, or West Village Dining Commons. You will assist with loading, transporting, and setting up equipment, including tables, chairs, and audio/visual gear, and coordinate with staff, faculty, and students.

You will work closely with facility leadership to respond to emergencies and mentor student workers in the absence of management.

Responsibilities

• Greet guests and respond to customer requests, such as event setup changes, equipment needs, and audio/video assistance.
• Assist facility leadership with executing emergency response within the facility in the event of emergency.
• Lead and motivate a team of students in the absence of Operations and Events management.

Job description

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Serve as the first point of contact for visiting guests and clients visiting Student Center, Stamps Commons, or West Village Dining Commons. Provide direction and participate in loading, transporting, and set-up and breakdown of event equipment such as tables, chairs, pipe-and-drape and audio/visual equipment. This position will interact on a regular basis with: Staff, faculty, students, clients and guests. This position typically will advise and counsel: Students. This position will supervise: NA

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Duties may include but are not limited to: Greet guests and respond to customer requests, such as event set up changes, equipment needs, and audio/ video assistance.

Job Duty 2 -

Assist facility leadership with executing emergency response within the facility in the event of emergency.

Job Duty 3 -

Lead and motivate a team of students in the absence of Operations and Events management.