Core Administrator

6 days ago

Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo Full time

Overview:
The Administrator is responsible for managing the hiring, onboarding and ongoing employment of all CORE employees including setting or consulting on employee salaries. The Administrator acts as supervisor for the CORE clinical administrative staff and provides support on various levels to all CORE employees including administrative processes. This position is a member of the CORE Senior Administrative Team (SAT), which is the decision-making body within CORE, and also undertakes the financial approval role on several UW financial systems such as Unit4 and Concur. This position is contingent upon funding.

**Responsibilities**:
Human Resources Administration
- Supervises the CORE clinical administrative staff, assigning workload and evaluating performance.
- Determines salaries for support staff, co-op students, and graduate students and consults on salaries for research staff.
- Onboards all new CORE employees ensuring that they have access to required resources and all electronic sites and have completed mandatory UW safety, Optometry privacy and regulatory/SOP training, required to complete their tasks.
- As a member of SAT, participates in the decision to terminate staff employment, processes the necessary paperwork to complete the termination and participates in termination meetings when necessary.
- Facilitates the hiring of foreign workers and supports the requirements of visitors with guidance from UW Legal and Immigration Services.
- Provides support as needed to all CORE employees.

Financial Support
- Generates and administratively manages the annual salary budget for all CORE employees.
- Maintains signing authority on all CORE work orders.
- Acts as approver for UW systems such as Unit4 transactions, Concur cost centres and department purchasing cards.
- Holds a department purchasing card and the department’s primary petty cash fund.
- Acts as a resource/backup to the CORE Manager, Research Contracts and IP.

Decision Making
- Is a member of the CORE SAT, which is the decision-making body for day-to-day CORE functioning, and represents staff as required.
- Sits as a voting member on the CORE Management Board, which is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operations of CORE and is also responsible for setting the agenda and taking minutes.
- Acts on behalf of the Director and other members of the SAT, as required.

Employee Training and Development
- Ensures all CORE employees and visitors are made aware of CORE confidentiality requirements and have signed the CORE Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreement.
- In consultation with sources in CORE, WOVS and on campus, establishes the mandatory training requirements for all CORE employees.
- Ensures that CORE Employee Guidelines conform to UW Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, oversees implementation and deals with nonconformists.
- Organizes team-building activities and development opportunities where possible to foster positive and collaborative working relationships for CORE employees.

Resources and Procurement
- Manages CORE’s physical resources and space; including providing each employee with basic needs such as a workstation, phone extension, access to keys, computer hardware and software and any other resource needed for their particular duties.
- Determines and facilitates level of access to the CORE electronic environment that each employee will require to perform their appointed tasks as well as physical access to CORE space.
- Sets up contracts with independent contractors and service agreements with equipment suppliers.
- Liaises with Optometry IT and Plant Operations to manage issues related to computing environment and physical space.
- Facilitates the procurement and storage of equipment.
- Oversees offsite storage of study data.

Communication
- Manages and tracks employee time off through the CORE Outlook calendar and ensures that all vacations are approved by the appropriate supervisor.
- Chairs monthly clinical administrative staff meetings and community outreach meetings.
- Oversees monthly staff meetings, prepares agenda, and distributes minutes.
- Updates and administers the Business Continuity Plan as required.
- Provides support for the CORE social media and newsletter teams.

Other
- Coordinates conference presence at two major conferences per year for all attending CORE personnel and assists personnel with attendance at other conferences as needed.
- Oversees and assists with travel support for the CORE Director.
- Interacts with the School of Optometry Safety Officer and the UW Safety Office to oversee the safety of CORE clinical facilities.
- Manages fire wardens for CORE and acts as fire warden for third floor research wing.

Qualifications:

- College diploma or university degree, preferably in human resources and/or finance, or equivalent education and experience is required.
- A minimum of 5 years managing/supervising multi-functional teams is required.
- Involvement in processes rel

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