Front Office Student Assistant

Front office student assistant providing general office assistance to the staff of the C&PE Department. Students from across KU are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Assist department staff with phones, mail, filing, office organization, and lunch and meeting coverage (80%).
• Perform office duties such as word processing and scanning (15%).
• Daily mail retrieval and sorting.
• Answer phone calls and departmental emails.
• Assist guests and students in the department office.
• Support departmental staff with text-based and graphic projects.
• Research and summarize information for reports.
• Other duties as assigned (5%).

Requirements

• Strong MS Office skills, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Have a minimum of 2-hour blocks of availability between the hours of 9 AM and 4:30 PM M-F.
• During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours.
• For summer periods, the student hourly must:
  • Have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester, or
  • Be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours, or
  • Be enrolled in summer session, or
  • Be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester.
• Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students (exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments do not apply to Student Hourly appointments).
• Student employees are not eligible for remote work arrangements unless an exception is approved by the unit leadership and HR.
• This is an hourly/non-exempt position; a student employee cannot hold an hourly/non-exempt position and a salaried/exempt graduate or undergraduate position (GRA/GTA/GA/RUA/RGA) concurrently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in an office setting.
• Experience with software for creating graphics.

Pay

$15.00 hourly

Schedule

Anticipated start date: Tuesday, July 28, 2026