Office Manager

• 536931
• Suffolk, Virginia
• Tidewater AREC
• Staff
• Agriculture & Life Sciences

Job Description

This position has primary responsibility for management of the administrative office and critical business practices at Virginia Tech's Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center (Tidewater AREC). Located in Suffolk, Virginia (village of Holland) Tidewater AREC is one of the largest off-campus units within the university's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/ Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. Tidewater AREC is currently home to eight resident faculty members, three postdoctoral associates, 14 full-time staff, numerous part-time wage and student employees, 11 graduate students; and has an annual research budget of approximately $2 million and personnel budget of $2.1 million. In this role, the Office Manager will be expected to oversee day-to-day fiscal management activities and selected human resources operations in cooperation with college human resources staff. The most critical areas of responsibility are accounting for and reconciliation of over 200 individual funds; financial reporting (monthly, annually, multi-year) at both the unit level as well as the individual faculty level; providing support for procurement and receiving shipments; payroll projections and entry; and local human resource tasks including I-9 verification and collection/submission of documents to CALS HR related to new hires. Other tasks include assistance with coordinating facility repair and maintenance with internal offices (i.e., University Facilities) including communicating with external contractors, service on the TAREC safety committee, providing scheduling and communications support for the Tidewater AREC Director and Assistant Director, and development of guidelines and protocols that increase the efficiency of business operations at the Tidewater AREC. The Office Manager will also work with a part-time (30 h/week) office assistant who focuses...