p>This position provides administrative and organizational support to departmental leadership; maintaining awareness of departmental responsibilities, deadlines, procedures, and operational needs; preparing and reviewing communications and documents; managing confidential administrative, personnel, candidate, financial, purchasing, and contract records; serving as a liaison between departmental faculty, staff, candidates, vendors, and University offices; assisting with complex scheduling, travel, candidate visits, onboarding logistics, purchasing, equipment requests, positive time reporting, and special projects; and supporting departmental fiscal activities, including budget tracking, expense reconciliation, purchase orders, grant fund monitoring, budgetary reports, and funding transfer/reallocation requests. Tracks departmental funding, monitors budget activity, reviews budgetary reports, maintains records of expenditures, assists with budget transfers or reallocations, monitors grant fund utilization, identifies under-or over-utilized funds, supports requests to move funding, reconciles P-Card/T-Card transactions, processes purchase orders, and assists with fiscal documentation.