A national leader in experiential and interdisciplinary legal education, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law is widely regarded as one of the nation’s most innovative and ascendant law schools. Located in a beautiful, distinctive, and economically vibrant metropolitan area, the Sturm College of Law offers a full-time JD program, a part-time weekend JD program, a set of pioneering and nationally recognized Master’s programs, various dual-degree programs, and a variety of certificate programs (in animal law, constitutional rights and remedies, corporate and commercial law, environmental and natural resources law, intellectual property law, international law, and workplace law). The law school features an accomplished and highly professional staff, a community of nationally recognized scholar-teachers, an outstanding and diverse student body, and roughly 17,000 alumni who have achieved careers of distinction in law, business, government, public interest, and other professional domains.

Position Summary

The Executive Assistant to the Dean provides outstanding, proactive, and highly professional administrative support to the Dean of the Sturm College of Law. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following principal tasks, among others: (1) anticipating, managing, prioritizing, and facilitating the Dean’s communications (e-mail and phone), calendar, schedule, and workflow, with the goal of advancing the work of the Dean in an efficient and effective manner; (2) facilitating prompt, responsive, clear, and professional communications between the Deans’ Suite and other stakeholders; (3) collaborating with other members of the Deans’ Suite in advancing the work and mission of the Sturm College of Law; and (4) effectively advancing and completing a variety of special projects in support of the Dean’s priorities. The successful candidate should be skilled at communication, collaboration, prioritization, multitasking, and project management and consistently model professionalism, sound judgment, thoroughness, speed, teamwork, attention to detail, and a commitment to respectful engagement, inclusion, and customer service.

Essential Functions

• Anticipate, manage, prioritize, and facilitate the Dean’s communications (e-mail and phone), calendar, schedule, travel, and workflow, with the goal of advancing the work of the Dean in an efficient and effective manner;
• Facilitate prompt, responsive, clear, and professional communications between the Deans’ Suite and other stakeholders, including, without limitation, faculty, staff, students, the Provost’s Office, the Chancellor’s Office, other units, alumni, and board members;
• Serve as the principal point of contact within the Deans’ Suite for internal and external constituents on all matters pertaining to the law school;
• Effectively assume, advance, and complete a variety of special projects in support of the Dean’s priorities;
• Undertake administrative tasks that advance the work of the Deans’ Suite, including managing communications, facilitating meetings, booking travel, submitting expense reports, making departmental deposits to the University’s Cashier’s Office, and maintaining records in a manner consistent with University- and unit-level policies;
• Manage various operational functions of the Deans’ Suite, including, without limitation, assisting with events, coordinating visits and interviews by job candidates, assisting with annual performance reviews, onboarding/offboarding employees, and processing non-benefited student and staff hires;
• Attend faculty meetings, recording attendance and draft minutes;
• Perform other additional duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Outstanding professionalism
• Sound judgment
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong organizational skills
• The ability to balance and prioritize competing tasks
• Attention to detail
• A commitment to collaboration, civility, respectful engagement, and inclusion
• The ability and awareness to treat confidential matters with discretion and tact
• The ability to cultivate positive and productive working relationships within the law school and across the University
• Demonstrated proficiency with standard office productivity software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Four (4) years of relevant administrative, project management, communications, or customer service experience
• Demonstrated interest and capacity for critical thinking, problem solving, and generating creative solutions in dynamic organizational settings

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a higher education setting

Working Environment

• Standard office environment.
• Unexpected interruptions occur often and stress level is moderate to high.
• Noise level is quiet to moderate.

Physical Activities

• Ability to work in front of a computer for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally required to move about the office/campus.

Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Application Deadline
For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) July 28, 2025.

Special Instructions
Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Salary Grade Number:
The salary grade for the position is 10.

Salary Range:
The salary range for this position is $62,000-$72,000

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Benefits:
The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.

Please include the following documents with your application:
1. Resume
2. Cover Letter

The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital, family, or parental status, pregnancy or related conditions, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Denver does not discriminate and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital family, and parental status, pregnancy, genetic information, military enlistment, or veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance in any of the University’s educational programs and activities, and in the employment (including application for employment) and admissions (including application for admission) context, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Equal Pay Act; the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; the Colorado Protecting Opportunities and Worker's Rights ("POWR") Act; and any other federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation. For more information, please see the University of Denver's Non‑Discrimination‑Statement.

All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check.