Faculty Administration Coordinator

**Department** Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation - Faculty Affairs

**Salary range** $50,837.16 to $68,637.60

**Hours per week** 35

**Grade** 7

**Posted date** June 26, 2025

**Closing date** July 15, 2025

**Position Type** Full Time - Operating Funded

**Description**:
**_This position is a part of the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA)._**

This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

**Location** - This role is in-person at North Campus, Edmonton.

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**Position Summary**

Reporting to the Faculty General Manager, the Faculty Administration Coordinator will act as the primary administrative support in the areas of Finance and HR. Acting as the first point of contact within KSR, this role assists the community with navigating and understanding new processes, policies, and procedures implemented through the SET initiative, and has responsibility to assist in resolving issues, removing barriers, and providing support in these areas. In all facets of this role, this position endeavors to integrate and advance the University's commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusivity. This position understands, fulfills, and promotes the health, safety, and environment responsibilities identified in University Policy.

The Faculty Administration Coordinator will be the primary transactional support for Faculty financial matters. This includes supporting our revenue generation and international partnership activities, such as Beijing Sport University and Fitness Testing. The position will be required to assist in the management of financials for these areas and also be tasked with ensuring that billing/invoicing is done in a timely manner. This role will be the primary administrative contact for the Faculty Fitness Testing Services (FTS) unit.

Supporting HR activities, the Faculty Administration Coordinator will be a reliable source of information for the Faculty with respect to HR processes on campus, including but not limited to, hiring and recruitment practices.

The position will be required to anticipate daily fluctuations in workload in terms of volume and variety, as well as independently prioritize their workload to meet the expectations and timelines from all areas the position services. This position requires primarily in-person work.

**Duties**

Finance Operational Support (includes but is not limited to):

- Performs financial data gathering and report generation for leadership review and analysis
- Acts as a resource to faculty with respect to any queries on both internal and external financial management policies and processes including: UAPPOL, Financial Service processes, Staff Service Centre processes, audit documentation requirements, and GST regulations
- Complete APJV, GLJE, SBA and other routine financial transactions as required
- Internal and external invoicing: includes creation of vendor accounts, preparation of invoices, management of external contracts, monitoring payments, liaison with Staff Service Centre and Financial Services (including Faculty, Beijing Sport University, Fitness testing etc.) including follow up on aged AR items
- Establish PO’s, process and pay vendor invoices and query and analyze outstanding PO’s through SupplyNet
- Creates/processes indents for the Faculty

HR Operational Support (includes but is not limited to):

- Advises faculty and staff on requirements of relevant collective agreements (NASA/AASUA/GSA/ETC)
- Creates and maintains record of appointments for sessional instructors and teaching assistants
- Understand and communicate, when necessary, the differences in job types and classifications
- Assist the hiring manager with the completion of position evaluations and job descriptions prior to review by the HRP

Other Operational Support (includes but is not limited to):

- Assist other Faculty Administrative staff on emergent/time sensitive projects and issues as needed

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Diploma (preferably in business administration or accounting)
- 2-3 years of progressively responsible operational support experience