Yale University

Yale University

Acquisitions Assistant

New Haven, Connecticut, 06511 · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 54 days ago
CommunicationProblem SolvingOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • Working at Yale means contributing to a better tomorrow.
  • Investigates and resolves a wide range of problems related to all formats of continuations, purchase order creation, payment, claiming, renewal, cancellation, and payment.
  • Serves as a point of contact with vendors and selectors for the resolution of problems and communication of serial vendor practices.

Responsibilities

  • The work calls for a highly skilled person with excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects on a daily basis.
  • Creates invoices in the library management system (Alma) and loads vendor-supplied electronic invoice files.
  • Coordinates and maintains follow-up files to review pending continuation issues such as unreceived subscription invoices and unanswered vendor inquiries.
  • Performs scanning tasks, including document scanning, upload, and data entry.
  • Supports a full range of acquisition processes, including Purchase Order creation and online claiming of missing material.
  • When titles change, split or combine, brings in new records or creates provisional records.
  • Creates holdings for new records.
  • Supports access to electronic content through access checks, invoice reconciliation, and claiming.
  • Demonstrated ability to create and update spreadsheets and to work with data efficiently.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and demonstrated strong organizational skills to include overseeing follow-up functions.

Requirements

  • Required Skills and Abilities 1.

Compensation

  • Assists with annual serial renewal process.

This listing is sourced directly from Yale University's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.