Yale University

Yale University

Acquisitions Assistant

New Haven, Connecticut, 06511 · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 101 days ago
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odds of building a lasting career here

88Lottery-free
Cap-exempt (no lottery)100
Sponsors year-round100
Entry-level history60
PERM / green-card track50
Fits your clock70

Files H-1B any time — no cap, no lottery. The 2026 weighted-selection rule doesn't touch it, which makes this the strongest structural path for entry-level talent. Pay is often lower, but your odds of staying are dramatically higher.

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Employer immigration record

from this employer's Department of Labor filings

Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 4 green-card filings in this occupation, 75% were for a worker who already held the job.

States it is exempt from the H-1B cap

In 3 Department of Labor filings, this employer states it is an institution of higher education — one of the statutory grounds for exemption from the H-1B cap. Cap-exempt employers can file year-round without entering the lottery.Employer's own attestation on a Department of Labor wage determination, not a USCIS determination — exemption is decided per petition.

Green-card intent detected

Yale University obtained a prevailing wage determination for Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary in New Haven, CONNECTICUT on 2026-06-23. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 13 days (2026-09-20), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.

Files H-1B transfers

35 transfer filings in the last year, covering 35 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 8 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.

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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.