An NIU athletic office administrator will transfer to the finance and planning office Monday to fill a position that has been available since December.

Athletic Business Manager Patricia Perkins will be promoted to administrative assistant to Eddie Williams, vice president for finance and planning.

Williams said Perkins’ salary has not been established but will be determined within the next few days after he has considered her experience, the tasks that will be assigned to her, her current salary and the fact that she is a woman in a management level position.

As athletic business manager, Perkins annually earns $37,476. Her possible new salary will range from $29,160 to $46,680, Williams said.

He said civil service guidelines were followed to fill the administrative assistant position.

The positions’ opening was advertised locally, “but it’s nothing you have to do a national search for” because it is a civil service position, Williams said. All of the applicants were given an exam and the people with the three highest scores were interviewed for the position.

“It’s a lot different from a normal search. Search committees look at everyone that applies. (With the Civil Service System) one is not given the liberty just to consider everyone that applied,” Williams said.

The Civil Service System requires the top three job applicants to answer questions from an oral board, Williams said. “The questions are determined by the Civil Service System as a tight way of selecting and evaluating people.”

Williams said he began the search for an administrative assistant when Patricia Hewitt, associate vice president for business and operations, was promoted from administrative assistant to assistant vice president for finance and planning in December.

Williams said that when Hewitt left the administrative assistant position, he began to evaluate the position to determine how it could be improved.

Athletic Director Gerald O’Dell said he has given “very little thought” to how Perkins will be replaced.

O’Dell said he will discuss the situation with her today to find out her future plans and suggestions she has for the athletic business office.

Perkins’ athletic business manager position “is an important part of the athletic office” and he is concerned about the office’s future.

O’Dell said he has not been able to consider what will be done to replace Perkins because he now is concerned about finding a basketball coach to replace Jim Rosborough, who was fired last month.