• Staff Duties •

WHO DOES WHAT:

TASK STAFF
A/V equipment reservations (department owned and Rice owned) Jennifer
Announcements for new courses and organizational meetings Ivy
Answering phones Jennifer
Chairman's calendar Daria
Chairman's signature Daria
Class rosters, grade sheets and grade change reports Jennifer
Classroom assignments Ivy
Colloquium secretary (announcements, reservations, refreshments …) Jennifer
Colloquium accountant (expense reports and reimbursements) Brenda
Course descriptions, course listings, new courses and the General Announcements Ivy
Course exams (Daria handles graduate program exams) Daria
Course/instructor evaluations Ivy
Departmental policies and procedures Fran
Department publications (graduate/undergraduate brochures and newsletters) Ivy
Distribution of mail and mailbox assignment Jennifer
Expense reports and reimbursements Brenda
Faculty calendar Daria
Faculty matters (annual reports, CVs, brag files, office hours, commencement attendance …) Ivy
Faculty recruiting data entry (under Fran's supervision) Ivy
Financial matters (all funds: A, D, G and R) Fran
Food orders and setting up for small departmental functions, such as faculty meetings Jennifer
Graduate payroll and tuition Daria
Graduate policies and procedures (exams, degree requirements, deadlines …) Daria
Graduate recruiting data entry (under Daria's supervision) Jennifer
Graduate recruiting secretary Daria
Hand delivery of urgent items Jennifer
Hiring undergraduate labbies, graders and summer research assistants Brenda
Hiring and supervising undergraduate office assistants Daria
Hotel and airline reservations Jennifer
Internal billing (computing) Fran
Internal billing (fax, LD, supplies …) Daria/Brenda
Key distribution (office and furniture) Daria/Jennifer
Librarian for CAAM reference material Ivy
Ordering office supplies Daria
Organizing big events (affiliates, TRIP …) Daria
Payroll (faculty, staff, postdocs and visitors) Fran
Personnel matters (appointments/reappointments, hiring/terminations, job postings, promotions, leaves …) Fran
Photocopying (general, exams, handouts, TRs …) Jennifer
Physical maintenance and repairs (phones, locks, furniture …) Daria
Preparation of promotion and tenure dossiers (with assistance from Ivy) Fran
Proposals (budget preparation, forms, signatures, revised budgets …) Fran
Purchasing (general, office and computer equipment) Daria/Brenda
Room reservations for small meetings and seminars Jennifer
Room reservations for tutorials and organizational meetings Ivy
Scheduling of meetings (visitors and prospective faculty) Jennifer
Scheduling of meetings (faculty and prospective graduate students) Daria
Sending and distributing fax Jennifer
Space allocation Fran
Staff issues Fran
Technical reports Ivy
Textbook orders and deskcopies Ivy
Time allocation reports Fran
Typing and editing (technical) Ivy
Typing (light typing) Jennifer
Undergraduate policies and procedures Ivy
University policies (financial, research, HR, faculty, staff …) Fran
Webmaster Ivy

TASKS BY PERSON:

Jennifer Trevino
Staff Assistant
Office TBA
EXT: 4805

  • A/V equipment reservations (Dept owned and Rice owned)
  • Answering phones
  • Class rosters, grade sheets, grade change reports
  • Colloquium secretary
  • Course exams (Daria handles graduate program exams)
  • Distribution of mail and mailbox assignment
  • Food order for faculty meetings and small events
  • Graduate recruiting data entry (under Daria's supervision)
  • Hand delivery of urgent items
  • Hotel/airline reservations
  • Photocopying (general, exams, handouts, trs …)
  • Room reservations for small meetings and seminars
  • Scheduling meetings (visitors and prospective faculty)
    (Daria handles faculty meetings and meetings with prospective grads)
  • Sending/distributing fax
  • Typing (light typing)

BRENDA AUNE
Accounting Assistant II
DH 1078
EXT: 5722

  • All Expense reports and reimbursements (travel, business meetings, entertainment, check requests …)
  • Hiring undergraduate labbies, graders and summer research assistants
  • Internal billing (fax, FedEx, LD …)
  • Managing multiple pcards, including monitoring and reallocation
  • Monitoring expenditure for internal programs such as colloquium, faculty recruiting, graders and labbies
  • Purchasing agent for CAAM (shared with Daria)

IVY GONZALEZ
Academic & Web Coordinator
DH 1089
EXT: 6310

  • Announcements for new courses and organizational meetings
  • Classroom assignments
  • Course descriptions, course listings and new courses
  • Course/instructor evaluations
  • Dept publications (graduate and undergraduate brochures, newsletters …)
  • Faculty annual reports
  • Faculty commencement attendance
  • Faculty CVs, brag files
  • Faculty office hours
  • Faculty recruiting data entry (under Fran's supervision)
  • General Announcements
  • Librarian for CAAM reference material
  • Room reservations for tutorials and organizational meetings
  • Technical reports
  • Typing and editing (technical)
  • Textbook orders, deskcopies
  • Undergraduate policies and procedures
  • Webmaster

DARIA LAWRENCE
Department & Graduate Coordinator
DH 1079
EXT: 4657

  • Chairman's calendar
  • Chairman's signature
  • Distribution of office and furniture keys
  • Faculty calendar
  • Food orders for big events
  • Graduate payroll and tuition
  • Graduate policies and procedures (exams, degree requirements, deadlines …)
  • Graduate recruiting secretary
  • Hiring/supervising undergraduate office assistants
    (Brenda handles undergraduate graders, labbies and summer research assistants)
  • Ordering office supplies
  • Organizing big events (affiliates, TRIP annual meetings …)
  • Physical maintenance and repairs (phones, locks, furniture …)
  • Purchasing general, office and computer equipment (shared with Brenda)
  • Scheduling of meetings (faculty and prospective graduate students)
    (Jennifer handles meetings with visitors and prospective faculty)

FRAN MOSHIRI
Senior Department Administrator
DH 2019
EXT: 5627

  • Departmental policies and procedures
  • External Funds (pre-awared and post-award processing of grants, contracts and gifts)
  • Financial matters (all funds: A, D, G and R)
  • Internal billing (computing)
  • Payroll (faculty, staff, postdocs and visitors)
  • Personnel Issues (appointments, reappointments, terminations, job descriptions, job postings, promotions, tenure, sabbatical leaves, leaves of absence …)
  • Proposals (budgets, forms, signatures, revised budgets …)
  • Space allocation
  • Staff Issues
  • Time allocation reports
  • University policies & procedures (financial, research, HR, faculty, staff …)
    (Daria handles graduate policies, Ivy handles undergraduate policies)


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