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Position: Director
Telephone: (506) 25112937
Email:
judith.jimenez_d@ucr.ac.cr
direccion.educacionfisica@ucr.ac.cr
I am a Physical Education teacher, with an academic doctorate in Human Movement Sciences.I specialize in motor development-learning and sports management. I have 10 years of university teaching experience. I've taught courses in motor development, motor learning, psychomotor skills, research, and undergraduate sport administration.
At the postgraduate level, I have taught courses in univariate, multivariate and meta-analytical research. I have participated in developing 10 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral theses as a tutor and reader. I have participated in Social Action and research projects at the UCR, I have also participated as a lecturer in national and international conferences, and I have publications in national and international impact journals. For 12 years I worked as a Physical Education teacher in the preschool area, and as a soccer coach in the elementary and high school area.
Curriculum

Position: Leadership
Telephone: (506) 25112938
Email:
zeidy.morales@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: From Monday to Friday, from 6:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m and 1:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Main functions
-Process loans of institutional assets external to the School.
-Execution of the School's budget
-Planning with the Direction of the academic workload of the teaching staff.
-Planning with the management of schedules
-Planning with the management of student hours for courses
-Preparation of the appointments of the teaching and administrative staff.
-Ensuring the maintenance of the school's infrastructure.
-Preparation of the calendar of important dates

Position: Information Technology Unit Manager
Telephone: (506) 25112759
Email:
alonso.brenesfernandez@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Main Functions:
-Give technical support to the work unit´s computers.
-Maintenance of hardware and software, telephony and networking.
-Manage equipment purchases and quotes.
-Provides biometric access.
-Provides support and assistance in the field of cyber security
-Control the rotation of computer equipment.
-Provides IT inventory tracking.
-Allocate computers resource in coordination with the Administrative Office.
-Manage network services and data infrastructure.

Position: Management Secretary
Telephone: (506) 25112901
Email:
francinny.fallas@ucr.ac.cr
direccion.educacionfisica@ucr.ac.cr
Main functions:
-Keeping the agenda of the Direction
-Request and receive the sworn statement
-Request and receive the Timetable
-Process faculty vacations
-Handle matters related to the Academic and Teaching Service Regulations
-Processing Collective Bargaining Agreement leaves (paid and unpaid leaves).
-Loan of tablecloths and flags for events.
-Process transportation requests for tours
-Receipt of semi-annual work reports
-Execution of the minutes delivered by the different commissions to the different university entities
-Processing student appeals

Position: Receptionist and Postgraduate Student Affairs Officer
Telephone: (506) 25112930 / 25112949
Email:
ericka.montero@ucr.ac.cr
edufi@ucr.ac.cr
Reception schedule: Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Postgraduate office schedule: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Main functions:
-Answering the telephone center
-Reception and distribution of SIGEDI documents.
-Lending of keys
-Delivery of office supplies
-Sending information for vehicle tag requests
-Preparation of loan slips for sports materials
-Preparation of personnel actions for incapacity and paid leaves of absence
-Preparation of maintenance and/or repair orders for facilities.
-Registration of changes in the location of institutional assets
Position: Recepcionist
Telephone: (506) 25112930
Email:
alejandra.barrantes_c@ucr.ac.c
edufi@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Main Functions:
-Answering the telephone center
-Reception and distribution of SIGEDI documents.
-Lending of keys
-Delivery of office supplies
-Sending information for vehicle tag requests
-Preparation of loan slips for sports materials
-Preparation of personnel actions for incapacity and paid leaves of absence
-Preparation of maintenance and/or repair orders for facilities.
-Registration of changes in the location of institutional assets

Position: Student Affairs Officer
Telephone: (506) 25112939
Email:
pamela.chacon@ucr.ac.cr
aestudiantiles.edufi@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Main Functions:
-Support for the pre-registration and registration process.
-Validations, recognition of equivalencies, external acknowledgements
-Care of course programs
-Prepare certificates of the different processes for students.
-Entering and sending schedules to the Registrar's Office.
-Send grades and modifications to the Registrar's Office.
-Booking classrooms (auditorium, 13, 14, 15, 26 and 27) and meeting rooms.
-Process interruptions of studies and unfinished studies.
-Process lifting of requirements
-Process accommodations
-Admission process and first years
Position: Librarian science
Telephone: (506) 25112903
Email:
grettel.saavedra@ucr.ac.cr
bicimohure@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Main functions:
-Alert Services (Bulletins)
-Reference Service
-Loan of materials to the room
-Loan of materials to the home, when more than one copy is available.
-Loan of materials for photocopying
-Reproduction of documents
-Specialized bibliographic research
-Assistance and training in the use of computers, their programs and databases.
Position: Sport warehouse stacker
Telephone: (506) 25112750
Email:
josue.calderon@ucr.ac.cr
bodegaedufi@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Main functions:
-Delivery of sports equipment
-Cleaning and disinfection of sports equipment
-Cleaning of sports equipment storage rooms
Position: Sport warehouse stacker
Telephone: (506) 25112750
Email:
carlos.moralesmora@ucr.ac.cr
bodegaedufi@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Main functions:
-Delivery of sports equipment
-Cleaning and disinfection of sports equipment
-Cleaning of sports equipment storage rooms
Position: Audiovisual management and Lab Equipment support
Telephone: (506) 25112904
Email:
heidy.saavedra@ucr.ac.cr
audiovisualesedufi@ucr.ac.cr
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Main functions:
-Coordinate and execute technical tasks in the loan, handling, counseling, training and maintenance of audiovisual and laboratory equipment to faculty, administrative personnel and undergraduate and graduate students who require this service.
-Supervision and control of audiovisual and laboratory equipment and material.
-Installation and logistics of the audio and visual equipment necessary for the development of congresses, symposiums and other activities of the School.
-Assist faculty with the production of multimedia material, video, audio and photo editing, when requested.
-Repair and maintain the audiovisual and laboratory equipment in custody and located in the facilities of the Academic Unit.
-Collaboration in the purchase process of audiovisual and laboratory equipment.
-Prepare a technical report on laboratory, audio and video equipment to be discarded.
-To provide assistance and technical advice to faculty, staff, administrative personnel, and undergraduate and graduate students who require this service.
Position: Librarian science
Telephone: (506) 2511-2754
Email:
katherine.gonzalez@ucr.ac.r
Main functions:
-Attention of users in platform and study room
-Loan and return of bibliographic material
-Reference services
-Specialized bibliographic searches
-Training in the use of bibliographic managers, use of databases and library services.
-Partial reproduction of bibliographic material
-Document localization