Experience

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  University of arkansas

  Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  Administrative specialist

  -Exhibited initiative by quickly learning all aspects of the role, following the sudden departure of my predecessor, by enrolling in trainings, seeking resources, meeting with colleagues who specialized in various components of the work, all while developing a desk manual. I also streamlined several processes for the role.-Provided administrative support, primarily to the Director of Curriculum Review and Program Assessment, by supporting the creation, maintenance, and assessment of academic programs across campus with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail as well as developing monthly budget reports.-Supported Institutional Research staff in meeting institutional, state, and federal reporting requirements and assisted with special projects.-Provided excellent customer service as the office receptionist by answering, addressing, and directing phone and in-person inquiries from campus and community personnel.-Maintained the academic units and degree counts spreadsheets for all programs on campus Show less

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  University of arkansas

  May 2021 - Jan 2022

  Research project analyst/hei program coordinator

  -Provided administrative support, assisting the executive assistant to the provost and the vice provosts for academic affairs, planning, and faculty affairs with administrative and reporting tasks and special projects.-Assisted the vice provost for planning by tracking expenses, budgets, and financial reports for the provost’s office and its nine subunits-Coordinated the activities of five teams, including 37 personnel, across campus to meet accreditation requirements for the Higher Learning Commission, the University's accrediting body.-Supported the summer teaching and intersession pay processes across campus by reviewing and approving workloads from each of the colleges. This included reviewing hundreds of lines of data and confirming their accuracy each summer. Also supported the configuration of the payroll process in Workday to facilitate payroll entries and trained and assisted personnel in the colleges with timely payroll entries. -Ensured timely and accurate entries of financial and human resource management transactions in Workday. Show less

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  The ideals institute

  Jan 2022 - now

  Fiscal project manager

  -Maintain a nearly $1 million departmental budget activity, including assisting the IDEALS executive director with financial and position budgeting and expense planning, running and analyzing budget versus actuals reports in Workday, ensuring financial reconciliation, performing research and accounting adjustments as needed, and producing reports for finance and administration, office of sponsored programs, donors, and other stakeholders.-Track the budget activity for the $2.185M Train, Recharge, Uplift (TRU) Powered by IDEALS gift project providing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training as well as non-profit operational capacity building for 47 non-profit organizations in Northwest Arkansas.-Conduct Workday business processes, including financial reporting, processing honorariums, procurement and travel transactions, period activity pay (PAP) for unit pay to consultants, expense reports, customer invoicing, and internal service delivery processing.-Assist the IDEALS team with planning, execution, assessment, and evaluation of its programs and events.-Stay abreast of campus policies and procedures related to fiscal management, travel, and procurement and ensured that our department followed necessary processes.-Conducted the request for proposal process from start to finish to secure a $75,000 Professional/Consultant Services contract with a vendor for our evaluation procedures to analyze our programming effectiveness. Show less