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Main responsibilities include but are not limited to providing administrative support to the department: provides Kronos timekeeping system support as a secondary Super Admin, schedules and records minutes for departmental meetings, provides frontline support to the department for visitors and phone inquiries and directs calls and visitors to the appropriate person/area, supports the Readers' Theater program and other student programs of the department, prepares travel requests and reimbursements, processes membership payments, coordinates all aspects and processes paperwork for invited internal/external speakers, honorarium payments and related arrangements, follows all applicable procedures and policies of the department and university.  

Assists course directors with departmental courses, including processing drop/adds, room scheduling, course rosters, and uploading course materials to Elentra and/or Canvas learning based management systems as appropriate. 

Provides administrative support to the Bioethics Collaborative and the Vidant Medical Center Medical Ethics Committee and subcommittees.  Schedules, prepares documents, and attends monthly meetings of the Medical Ethics Committee.  Assists with requests for ethics consultations, including scheduling and notifying ethicist and subcommittee members, and follows-up post-consultation to obtain appropriate paperwork for files, preparing consultation reports, and maintaining database.

High school diploma or equivalency; or demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

The Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University carries out a three-fold mission of professional education, research, and service. The department teaches required courses in all four years of medical school, including courses on the ethical and social aspects of medicine in the first and second years, case-based ethics seminars with third-year students during their various clinical clerkship rotations, and electives in ethics, law, philosophy, history, literature, end-of-life issues, spirituality, leadership, social policy, and medical ethics and war for fourth-year students.

In addition, the faculty teach in the Honors College, the PA program, the MPH program, and also offer a graduate research ethics course for the basic science students. The department contributes to the intellectual life of the university, the medical center, and the community through its Readers' Theater Program and participation in a variety of continuing education programs. Faculty members also serve on school of medicine, university, and hospital committees, including those which address ethical issues.