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- Oversees departmental financial operations
- Manages faculty salary and effort
- Coordinates effort reporting, annual space survey, etc.
- Manages administrative staff and HR related matters for the department
- Prepare and administer department annual budget
- Manages NUECE UTL operations, facilities, and safety
- Develops and coordinates lab course schedules and lab space usage
- Determines lab annual budget expenditure
- Supervises teaching lab assistants (TAs)
Sini Kurien Thomas
Electronics Technician II - Undergraduate Teaching LaboratoriesPhone: 847-491-8161
Office: Tech CG20
Email Sini
- Provides preventative and corrective maintenance of NUECE UTL course experiment apparatus, test equipment, and lab PC systems
- Administrates lab course toolkit and test equipment loan program
- Purchasing and vendor payment requests
- Processes reimbursements for students and visitors
- Processes contracted services, consultant, and honorarium payments
- Orders lab and office keys
- Maintains copier and office supplies
- Manages proposal preparation and pre-award activities
- Monitors awards, and submits award management requests for processing and approvals (no-cost extensions, opening account codes, revised budgets, etc.)
- Sponsored research compliance monitor and local subject matter expert regarding sponsored research
- Effort Reporting, Payroll, and NUFinancials support
- Liaison with Northwestern's Sponsored Research office (SR)
- Verifies payroll entries for grants & awards
- Administrative support for hiring, onboarding & compensation
- Creates summary reports for budgeting & accounting within the department
- Corrects errors on current accounts
- Works with faculty & staff to ensure all submissions & funds have been correctly entered within the department system
- Assist with financial grant transactions to ensure accuracy
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Maintain budget account, update records, and prepare reports
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Work with faculty & staff on submissions and funds within departments system
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Instructs & advises regarding options and appropriate courses of action & follows-up inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction
- General administrative duties including clerical/mail organizing, general office maintenance/questions
- Event planning and scheduling
- Organizes department seminars and guest visits
- Event advertising
- Permission numbers
- Room reservation requests
- Maintains ECE website and edits accordingly