Executive Assistant to the Vice President - Institutional Advancement
Grand Rapids, MI (Health Campus)
Full Time
R104655
The Executive Assistant to the Vice President for University Development is a highly trusted, strategic, and service-oriented member of the Vice President's Office. This role provides high-level executive support to the Vice President while helping advance the effectiveness, culture, and operational excellence of the Institutional Advancement division. This position is more than a traditional executive assistant role. It requires strong judgment, initiative, project management skills, communication ability, and a broad understanding of how the Vice President's priorities connect to the work of the division and the university. The Executive Assistant helps ensure that the Vice President is prepared, informed, responsive, and able to focus on the highest-priority work of the division. The person in this role serves as a key representative of the Vice President's Office and helps set the tone for a culture that is positive, professional, collaborative, responsive, and committed to high standards. The Executive Assistant works closely with the Vice President, the Executive Associates, and other members of the Vice President's Office to coordinate priorities, manage workflow, support communications, and move projects forward. The role requires a high degree of confidentiality, discretion, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and follow-through. The Executive Assistant will regularly collaborate with and receive directions from the Executive Associates as part of the full scope of the position. Success in this role requires comfort working in a fast-paced executive environment, anticipating needs, managing details without losing sight of the larger strategy, and building strong working relationships with colleagues, donors, university leaders, and external partners.
Job Type:
Confidential Clerical
Job Classification & Benefits:
Minimum starting wage of $32.00 per hour
https://www.gvsu.edu/hro/benefits/professional-support-staff-benefits-457.htm including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, generous employer retirement contributions, wellness resources and tuition waiver effective on date of hire.
Essential Functions:
• Provide confidential, high-level support to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, using strong judgment, discretion, initiative, and problem-solving skills to manage priorities, assignments, and projects. Manage and maintain the Vice President's calendar, including executive-level meetings, donor and community meetings, university leadership meetings, large group meetings, committee meetings, travel, and related logistics. Proactively prepare the Vice President for meetings and engagements by gathering relevant materials, anticipating needs, identifying key issues, and ensuring timely follow-up.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for the Vice President's Office, representing the Vice President and the division with professionalism, warmth, responsiveness, and sound judgment.
• Monitor, triage, and respond to calls, emails, requests, and concerns directed to the Vice President's Office, resolving issues when appropriate and elevating matters that require additional attention.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Minimum of five years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated administrative and organizational skills.
• Experience with various computer software applications such as Microsoft Office and/or equivalent.
• Data entry experience.
• Typing and spelling competency with grammar and proofreading skills.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully provide quality customer service.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully work independently, organize own work and coordinate work activities of others.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully coordinate large projects.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully handle multiple demands efficiently.
• Demonstrated experience in a supervisory role or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully organize and prioritize workload.
• Demonstrated experience to handle complex budget records and assist with financial concerns.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully navigate challenging situations in the workplace, while using good judgement.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience to successfully maintain satisfactory work performance and attendance records.
• Ability to maintain positive intercultural and interpersonal relationships
Supervision Received:
Receives minimal supervision from a designated supervisor. Much of the work is self-initiated. Person is expected to function with considerable independence and apply appropriate policies and procedures within the assigned area of responsibility. .
Supervision Exercised:
Hire, train, schedule and coordinate the work of student employees and may act as lead worker to PSS staff members within the department/unit/division.
Working Conditions:
Typical office environment. Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
How to Apply:
Attach your cover letter and resume. The system will allow you to attach these documents electronically. Applications missing required documents will not be considered. If you have questions about the position or the posting, please contact Institutional Advancement at 616-331-6000 or mailto:[email protected]. If you need technical assistance, please contact Human Resources at mailto:[email protected].
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must not require sponsorship now or in the future.
Application Deadline:
Application closes July 2, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. This posting may be closed at any time at the discretion of the University.
Grand Valley State University is an Antidiscrimination/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. University policy extends protections to additional identities.
To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/7268022
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