Create or Update Staff Positions

The position summary is the applicant-facing preview of your job. The position summary is a marketing tool and should not be a job description.  The first sentence or 300 characters is critical to draw an applicant’s interest to want to learn more about your position.

When writing a position summary, it is important to create a summary that markets the job effectively and is welcoming to applicants from all backgrounds. In an increasingly competitive market, it is key to keep position summaries brief with broad qualifications to ensure a broad and diverse applicant pool can be considered. When crafting your position summary, consider the following:

• Make the most of the first 150-350 characters
• Use bulleted lists to describe the essential job duties (5-10 bullets max)
• Avoid using gendered language; when referring to the candidate, use ‘you’ – for example, “in this position, you will…”
• Make text understandable to external applicants – avoid UB specific language

Minimum and preferred qualifications play a huge role in developing a pool of qualified applicants to consider. It is important to understand that narrow qualifications can unintentionally limit the diversity of your applicant pool. When defining qualifications, be sure to:

• Be clear and realistic about the requirements
• Focus on competencies rather than experience
• Talk about successes as a qualification
• Avoid listing number of years and instead, define specifically what the best candidate needs to have accomplished in their experience
• Consider using qualification equivalencies to consider candidates with a variety of educational and experience backgrounds

• Make the most of the first 150-350 characters
• Include a marketing paragraph or use a department specific paragraph if one is available at the very end
• Include a statement highlighting the value the department places on diversity and inclusion
• Write a posting that describes a normal business day to the applicant

Consider using some of the statements below as a guide to craft a statement that demonstrates the university’s commitment to diversity and encourages applicants that diversify our workforce to apply. Ideally, a diversity statement should be thoughtfully developed by the department to reflect their own values.

• The university is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching or service to the diversity and excellence of the academic community.
• Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
• The university seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Buffalo, to maintain the excellence of the university and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.
• The school/department is interested in candidates who have demonstrated commitment to excellence by providing leadership in teaching research or service toward building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment.
• We welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence.

Use a marketing statement at the end of the position summary to highlight your department or the university. Consider using a mission statement from your department's website. Copy and paste the university's marketing statement with links to the UB website amd one of the following benefit summaries.

About the University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo (UB) #ubuffalo is one of America’s leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day. Visit our website to learn more about the University at Buffalo. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer. 

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about the great benefits the University at Buffalo has to offer.