Job: Asst Director – Columbia University East Asian Language and Culture
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Position: Assistant Director
Posted by: Columbia University East Asian Language and Culture
Type: N/A
Location: New York, NY
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
Directly reports to the Director of the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies (lMJS), and the EALAC Chair with oversight from the Academic Department Administrator, the Assistant Director manages all existing and new programs of the lMJS and supervises the day-to-day administration of the Institute and its staff. The Assistant Director oversees the Institute’s budget and grants; manages reconciliation in ARC and prevention of overdrafts; monitors all expenditures and ensures compliance with the policies of Columbia University and grant-making organizations; and has signature approval of all financial transactions and paperwork to the Office of the Controller and the Purchasing Department. The Assistant Director is in charge of purchasing all supplies, materials, and services, with signature approval of payments processed to Purchasing and the Office of the Controller. He/she is responsible for the maintenance of the Institute’s office in Kent Hall (Room 509), ensuring that security and upkeep are maintained. The Assistant Director is responsible for the recruitment, selection, and hiring of the institute’s part-time student staff throughout the year and for compliance with immigration laws when relevant.
The duties of the Assistant Director include planning and execution of large-scale symposia, and concerts both on and off campus, involving faculty, speakers, and artists from within the US and internationally; and the administration of travel grants, and visiting-scholar and musician programs, the Assistant Director also plans new events in conjunction and in consultation with the faculty of the University, both in the Music Department and in GSAPP. The incumbent is responsible for writing and disseminating executive correspondence in Japanese and English, all public relations materials, and other print and electronic materials. He/she supervises the creation and maintenance of the Institute’s bilingual website.
As senior administrator the incumbent also develops and implements fundraising initiatives in both the US and Japan, which requires travel abroad with or without the faculty director. The Assistant Director may also be required to present and promote programs of the Institute at conferences such as, but not limited to, the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. As administrator of grants made to the Institute, the Assistant Director is also required to represent and at times renegotiate grant contracts with existing funders of current awardees.
Under the IMJS Director’s supervision, the Assistant Director administers IMJS projects, including the Imperial Buddhist Convents Research and Restoration Project in Japan, collaboration with Columbia’s GSAPP Historic preservation agreements with the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Nara (Japan), as well as the Japanese Classical Music Initiative and the Music Department Japanese instrumental ensemble training program collaboration and its six-week Tokyo Mentor/Protégé Summer Program.
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