Jobs at Saginaw Valley State University

Coordinates the Thompson Scholars program by providing student success coaching, managing communications and reporting, organizing events, supporting scholarship selection, administering program requirements, and mentoring the student executive board. The role collaborates with university departments and the Thompson Foundation to improve student retention, engagement, graduation, and community service. It also assists the Registrar’s Office with term processes, graduation audits, and transfer course equivalencies.

Receives, inspects, records, stores, and delivers incoming goods and packages; prepares outgoing shipments and maintains shipment documentation. Processes receipts in Workday, monitors inventory, replenishes central stores supplies, resolves carrier and shipment discrepancies, and produces logistics reports. Operates material-handling equipment, conducts inventories, trains student employees, supports mail, graphics, and surplus-property operations, and maintains a safe work area.

Supports planning and execution of university athletic contests and special events. Duties include guest assistance, venue policy enforcement, event setup and teardown, equipment operation, incident reporting, ticketing, transportation, timing, announcing, scoreboard and game-clock operations, and coordination with campus departments. Requires evening, weekend, occasional holiday, indoor, outdoor, and variable-weather work in Michigan.

Support the Controller's Office by managing accounting systems, reviewing and approving journal entries, preparing reconciliations and financial reports, coordinating audits, maintaining fixed asset records, assisting cash management, developing reporting and compliance policies, and providing leadership and oversight within the department.

Advise and train student newspaper staff on journalistic practices, assist with production and editorial decisions, review and edit stories, help recruit and supervise student employees, and support budget and operations to align with the paper's mission.

Lead planning, development, marketing, delivery, and evaluation of university continuing education and lifelong learning programs. Manage budgets, staff, partnerships, strategic planning, and enrollment/financial goals. Coordinate OLLI and CPM programs, build corporate and regional relationships, oversee catalogs and travel courses, market offerings broadly, and represent SVSU at national conferences. Provide entrepreneurial vision and collaborate with campus units and regional partners.

Provide executive administrative and operational support to the VP of Governmental and Community Affairs: manage calendar, travel, correspondence, meetings, financial and records systems for the Community Development Fund, direct student employees, process Workday transactions, assist with budget tracking, coordinate governmental/legislative meetings, and support events and special projects on campus and in the region.

Coordinate and administer university study abroad programs including advising students and faculty, managing applications (Terra Dotta), budgets, scholarships, risk management, marketing, partner relations, program assessment, and travel support.