Contacts are throughout the University and involve coordinating major activities that may involve sensitive situations. Contacts involve developing and making presentations and negotiating with others. Occasional contact to provide information and instruction. Responsible for providing supervisory direction to other supervisors. Occasionally required to develop new, imaginative or innovative solutions, services, products, processes or programs.
Duties generally involve many diverse and unrelated processes and methods.
Work requires sophisticated reasoning skills. Responsible for making decisions concerning policy-setting, research, planning or students. Little direct supervision of activities, with considerable latitude for exercising judgement and self-direction. Difficult working conditions at times, including exposure to conditions which require cautious handling of animals or toxic plants, chemicals or substances requiring safety precautions, or equipment requiring constant attention. Safety gear is required in some aspects of work.