UC San Diego Housing, Dining and Hospitality (HDH) provides housing and dining services for approximately 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students and their families in more than 400 buildings, covering nearly 10 million square feet. Consisting of eight divisions, HDH has more than 1,000 career employees, 1,200 to 1,300 student employees, and an annual operating budget greater than $250 million.

HDH is a self-supporting department that operates without any federal, state or campus funding. The department receives nearly 90% of its funding from housing and dining services. It also secures revenue from conference and catering services. The goal is to break even.

HDH is in the midst of implementing an aggressive building plan that will added 10,000 new beds in the next 10 years and will almost double our square footage by 2032.

HDH commits to facilitating an equitable, diverse and inclusive environment, fostering a sense of belonging for our students and staff. As HDH we understand, each unique individual with their varied thoughts and experiences is what makes our department strong. Aligning with UC San Diego's Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion strategic goals, HDH is proud to promote and create opportunities for greater equity, diversity and inclusiveness within our division.

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The Systems and Development Assistant is responsible for general administration duties related to the Dining Systems & Development Team. Under the supervision of the Culinary Development Chef, the Systems and Development Assistant has administrative responsibility within the Systems & Development team and performs duties as directed, completing data entry tasks including invoicing, recipe writing, maintaining systems menu accuracy, developing standard operating procedures (SOP), food safety program support, preparing data and communicating with other teams such as Purchasing and Dining Operations.

• Knowledge and skill of e-mail, word processing, data base management and spreadsheet software applications, preferably Word, Windows, Excel and UCSD software applications.

• Excellent mechanical skills on 10 key calculator and computer terminal. Must be fast and accurate.

• Familiar with basic culinary arts applications, general food knowledge, recipe format, menu drafting, and kitchen administration

• Demonstrated ability to establish, organize and maintain alphabetical and numerical filing systems for accounting reports, correspondence, invoices and other related management files.

• Skill and knowledge of interpersonal relations including the ability to communicate in a helpful, pleasant and informative manner to a wide variety of people, both in person and on the telephone. This includes relationships with staff and students.

• Skill to independently organize a continuous flow of work in a timely manner and meet continuous, mandatory deadlines, yet maintain accuracy and neatness.

• Ability to remain calm, efficient and patient under pressure while dealing effectively with a wide variety of people with changing priorities and with frequent interruptions.

• Analytical ability to assess operational business practices and recommend procedures to create increased efficiencies.

• Background check is required.

• Operating needs of the department require varied work schedules, (i.e., a.m., p.m., and/or weekend shifts and/or 10 hour workday).

• Employees may be required to take off (vacation or temporary layoff) during scheduled operational shutdown periods, such as Winter, Spring & Summer breaks. Meal perquisite is required for all Dining Services employees. Employees may be required to change work location on a daily basis as needed or for an indefinite time period.

This position has been identified as a Mandated Reporter pursuant to the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and requires immediate reporting of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, or neglect of anyone under the age of 18.

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