Job Description Summary:

Position Details:

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Hourly Rate Range: $22.44/hour - $23.37/hour

*Final salary and rates are based on education experience skills relevant to the role.*

Application Notes

Application Deadline:

• This position will be posted until 11:59 pm MT on Monday December 22 2025.

Required application materials (preferably in PDF Format):

• Resume

• Questionnaire (embedded as required in the application)

Background Checks: Conducted for candidates selected for hire. Learn more.

What You Will Do

Here is a brief outline of what one would expect to be responsible for in this role.

Key Responsibilities

Access Controls Safety and Security

• Monitors UCAR security and access control systems and promptly escalates security issues as necessary to appropriate departments. May serve as a dispatcher in emergencies maintaining connectivity to UCAR Facilities Management Site Services and Security

• Issues and recovers access credentials physical keys and IDs for UCAR facilities maintains records and inventories of credentials and keys

Front Desk and Administrative Support

• Acts as a liaison between the public and UCAR/NCAR/UCP

• Directs employees and visitors to proper UCAR/NCAR/UCP destinations

• Operates multi-line telephone electronic communication and 2-way radios

• Operates a PC using database word processing and spreadsheet software applications

• Processes onboarding job change termination and other task-based notifications from UCARs Human Capital Management System. Maintains records of actions taken in accordance with UCARs records retention policy

Who Wed Love to Join Our Team

Successful candidates will ensure their application materials speak to the following criteria:

Education & Experience (Required):

• High School diploma or equivalent.

• Experience in office and/or hospitality based administrative and customer service roles

Education & Experience Desired but not required:

• Experience with Google suite applications

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Able to work 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Tuesday - Friday. This is an on-site position. No remote options.

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills

• Solid communication skills both written and verbal

• Ability to be resourceful and proactive in dealing with issues that may arise

• Ability to organize multitask prioritize and work under pressure

• Ability to work in a multicultural setting and interact with a wide variety of people

• Proficiency in word processing database and spreadsheet applications

• Ability to anticipate and respond to a variety of routine problems inquiries and tasks

• Skill in operating various computer systems two-way radio and multi-line phone systems

Benefits Overview

UCAR affirms its commitment to employees through competitive benefits. In addition to medical dental vision retirement and life insurance UCAR offers a variety of programs focused on work-life balance and professional and personal development. These include:

• Tuition Assistance time off allowance to attend classes and other professional development opportunities.

• UCAR contributes 10% of your eligible pay into your retirement account; 100% fully vested on day one.

• Starting minimum accrual of 20 days of personal time off each year (prorated for less than full-time positions).

• 10 paid holidays.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Short-term medical leave paid at 100% of your regular salary.

• EcoPass for local Colorado residents to use the Denver and Boulder-area transit system at no cost.

Commitment to Job Application Fairness

Applicants are not required to provide age or age-related information and may redact information related to age date of birth or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution from any submissions during the initial application process.

Some Final Considerations

At NSF NCAR UCAR UCP you will work alongside a dedicated team of professionals conducting critical research and community outreach to solve complex Earth system science problems including climate change air pollution extreme weather floods drought wildfires and space weather all with the goal of improving human life and reducing economic loss. Each of us from scientists to the professionals who support their work serves the public and a collaborative community of scientists in our mission to understand the complex processes that make up the Earth system from the ocean floor to the Suns core.

Flexible Work

At UCAR we are committed to supporting our mission by giving staff the flexibility to find the schedule and location that works best to maintain their own work-life circumstances and reach their full potential as professionals. Many positions within our organization are eligible for fully on-site hybrid (three days per week) and/or flexible work hours.

Equal Opportunity Employer

UCAR is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race age creed color religion national origin or ancestry sex gender disability veteran status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity or expression or your intersection of identities you are welcome at UCAR.

Export Control

All positions are required to comply with U.S. export compliance regulations and work location requirements regarding access to facilities and research systems.

Work Location

UCAR requires ALL positions to be performed within the U.S. excluding U.S. Territories.

AI Software

ChatGPT and similar AI software are powerful tools that are changing theway society receives processes and leverages information promptly. While we acknowledge its benefits and do not restrict leveraging it with job applications we highly encourage a majority of the applicant material to be original work.