Director, Academic Operations and Analytics (Finance)

Department: Office of the Provost Salary: Commensurate with education and experience
Description:

The Director, Academic Operations and Analytics provides overall coordination of academic operations in the Office of the Provost. Plans, implements, and evaluates division-wide initiatives. Works with college/unit leadership to formulate, perform, and report data analyses. Serves as liaison between UHCL and external partners.

Duties:

• Serves as the program/project lead to the Provost, which includes planning standards of practice, procedures, and policies as well as producing a plan of action to resolve issues and bring projects to closure. Manages and identifies performance issues, need for improvement, and investment opportunities.
• Creates and maintains ad-hoc reporting and databases for research/information needs that include but are not limited to; component analysis, re-accreditation studies, planning documents, facilities prioritizations, program/project status.
• Responsible for design and production of forecasting, cost analysis, and resource projections for financial sustainability of all new and existing academic programs, centers, and institutes.
• Provides direct supervision of division business administrators and department assistant(s) within Academic Affairs. Indirect supervision of college business administrators, working in conjunction with division heads and deans to evaluate performance.
• Assists in the development and management of departmental budgets by providing data analysis, advice, and guideline interpretations to business administrators, resolving operating deficiencies.
• Collaborates in strategic planning and related performance measurement for the division of Academic Affairs and performs related duties/responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

1. Master's degree.
2. Minimum seven years of advanced data analytics and reporting experience (including statistical analyses).
3. Experience supervising staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Evidence of experience performing self-directed data analyses in support of strategic planning.
• History of supervisory advancement.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of techniques for obtaining and analyzing data to conceptualize and respond to operational problems.
• Knowledge of management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of techniques for developing communication of programs to promote organization's strategic plans and accomplishments.
• Skills in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Skills in data analytic and presentation software.
• Skills in motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Skills in identifying and remedying operational inefficiencies.
• Ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Ability to organize/interpret information and present it effectively in oral and written communication.
• Ability to supervise and coordinate staff and faculty activities across multiple organizational levels.

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The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.