Human Resources

About the Role: 

Are you a leader, team builder, collaborator, and project manager? Do you enjoy training and developing others’ professional skills and abilities? As the Office Manager, you’ll be supporting the Vice President for Advancement and managing an administrative professional who provides support across offices. You will work closely with divisional leadership to provide oversight, structure, and project management for the offices of the Vice President, Alumni, Annual Fund, Development, and Donor Relations. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Supervise to-be-hired Administrative Assistant
• Provide support to the Vice President and Assistant Vice President for travel, meeting management, and coordination with the President’s Office for meetings with donors
• Provide support and oversight for two Coordinators in the division to help manage workflow and ensure divisional operations and projects are completed in a timely and accurate fashion
• Implement policies, procedures and standards for operations and project management
• Stay organized and sustain a proactive and collaborative approach to innovating and problem solving
• Build and maintain positive partnerships with faculty and staff across campus
• Maintain a flexible and successful hybrid office/home working schedule alongside the rest of the Advancement staff

Who You Are:

The qualified candidate will have…
 

• A college degree or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of administrative experience

It will be helpful if you have…
 

• Experience in a private residential liberal arts college setting
• Supervisory experience
• Experience using Asana or other project management tools to keep projects on track

If you have some or all of the following, please apply…
 

• You work productively as an individual and collaborate well with a diverse range of people, and are able to establish and maintain a good rapport with others
• You are flexible, detail-oriented, and analytical
• You are organized and able to manage many different projects at once
• You support, respect and commit to embracing diverse backgrounds, values and points of view to build a strong and inclusive community
• You have the ability to approach challenges proactively, with a positive, solution-oriented mindset

If you like new opportunities, have a strong eye for detail, and enjoy working with fun, dynamic, and collaborative teams, apply to join St. Olaf’s Advancement division.

Who We Are:

At St. Olaf College we are dedicated to creating an inclusive and globally engaged community. We believe in fostering different identities, beliefs, and traditions because our differences make us stronger. St. Olaf strives to promote cultural diversity and multicultural understanding and create a campus where individuals of all backgrounds feel accepted and supported. We encourage applications from candidates committed to the enrichment of our diverse community. 

One of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, St. Olaf serves 3,000 students, ranks #1 among U.S. colleges for the number of students studying abroad, and celebrates carbon-free electrical power.  Its mission is to challenge students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by Lutheran tradition.  The college is located on a picturesque 300-acre campus in Northfield, Minnesota, a vibrant, restored, historic river town of 20,000 located 45 minutes south of the Twin Cities.

St. Olaf College offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 9% company retirement match, company monthly contributions to a retirement healthcare account, company contributions to eligible employee’s health savings account, significant tuition discount (up to 80% off) at ACM and ELCA colleges and universities for employee’s children, and generous paid time off. For a full review of benefit offerings, see the summary of the benefits program here:  https://wp.stolaf.edu/hr/benefits/

A summary of the flexible work policy: https://wp.stolaf.edu/hr/flexible-work-policy/

A virtual campus tour:  https://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?p=483

An overview of Northfield:  https://wp.stolaf.edu/admissions/visit/northfield/

An overview of the Twin Cities:  https://wp.stolaf.edu/admissions/visit/twincities/

St. Olaf College requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (medical and religious exemptions may apply). To be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, you need to have received the COVID-19 vaccination dose(s), plus a COVID-19 booster before your start date, or within two weeks of eligibility for a booster.