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The School of Medicine's Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) promotes research to improve the health of medically undeserved, culturally, and economically diverse communities in the Inland Empire. CHC is administered by the UCR School of Medicine's Department of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health (SMPPH).

The Program Assistant will support SMPPH's mission to engage in multidisciplinary education, research, service, and scholarship on the intersections of medicine and society with population and public health. Provides programmatic and administrative support on projects, programs, academics, and on matters of importance to the School of Medicine. The assistant will serve as a liaison with community organizations vital to CHC.

This is a limited appointment, not to exceed 1,000 hours.

-Exceptional organizational, time management and general office skills. Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines working with frequent interruptions. Ability to work on multiple assignments and manage time effectively to ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner.
-Ability to work within a team and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships. Ability to interact effectively as an individual and a team member with department staff, faculty, students and outside community members.
-Ability to maintain confidentially, exercise discretion and sound judgment.
-Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills. Skill in communicating effectively and professionally using tact and diplomacy with a diverse population.
-Demonstrated ability to compose business correspondence, edit and use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. Demonstrated skill in creating editing documents in work processing applications using advanced features and creating spreadsheets and reports using Word, Excel, Power Point or other software applications.

-Bachelor's degree in a related field.
-Minimum of 1 year demonstrated related experience in an office environment providing administrative support, including assisting department procedures.
-Demonstrated administrative experience in a university or higher education environment.

In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities'air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.

UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.

• Washington Monthly (August 2016) ranked UC Riverside 12th in the nation in its annual University and College Survey.
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• Education Trust placed UC Riverside 9th in the nation for closing the graduation gap between black and white students by 1.7 percentage points.


• In QS World University Rankings 2016/2017, UC Riverside's Department of Philosophy is #1 in the world for the frequency with which published papers are cited by other philosophers.


• U.S. News and World Report Survey (September 2016) ranked UC Riverside 118th overall; earns "Great Schools, Great Prices."


• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (August 2016) Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Riverside among the top 151 to 200 institutions. This survey bills itself as "the most trustworthy precursor of global rankings of the world's top 500 universities."


• U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools (2016) including:
  
  
  
  • Graduate School of Education - 62nd among ranked schools
  
  
  • Bourns College of Engineering - 71st among ranked schools
  
  

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For information about our generous employee benefits package, visit: Employee Benefits Overview