Kimberly Cooper

Background

About Kimberly Cooper

I have 30 years of secretarial/bookkeeping experience and continue working (since 2021) as administrative assistant to the department head. I work for a very busy, large department (43 faculty (full-time and adjunct), with 250+ music majors. I do contracts for faculty, new hires, extra compensation contracts, and also professional services contracts for those on the outside. I have common sense and a good work ethic. I handle all the finances for the department including purchase orders and direct vouchers from the beginning until we submit them for payment. I process petty cash for student trips as well as assist with Chrome River for traveling faculty. We have quite a few major budgets to manage and keep balanced with all documentation both hard copy and electronically. I also maintain and balance all secondary budgets and revenue accounts. I also process payments for foundation expenditures. I handle yearly financial reports that affect accreditation. I also write shorthand, record meetings, do minutes each month. I have extensive experience with working in academics, creating the master schedule, maintaining student records, room schedules and concert scheduling. I handled the master schedule of course offerings for over 20 years and performed analysis on course rotation for planning and implementing the course schedule. During that time I maintained the room schedules that accompany the department course offerings schedule. I have experience with academics in helping students with overrides, course schedule corrections as well as transcript revisions, I built and maintained the schedule in banner, helped advisers on request and any other task the department head asked for relating to academics. I have a lot of experience scheduling and maintaining reservations for the recital hall, formerly known as the performance center. I have extensive experience with Microsoft Word and Excel programs. If you want something to look pretty on a page, I can do that. I used to do nearly all of the performance programs for the department and made sure they were printed correctly and on time for junior recitals and ensemble performances. I also have experience with Microsoft Publisher.I used to give tours of the building and speak to prospective students and their families on occasion. The students, faculty, staff and people from the outside need to see that JSU is the friendliest campus in the south. My aim is to demonstrate that whenever possible.