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Administrative Manager

Job Group: Administration
Job Subgroup: Administrative Services
Salary Range (Annual): 21: $56,112-104,368
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: AD005
  • Job Summary:
    Manages a program and/or programmatic activities. Initiates, develops, and implements operational services that support a defined project, program, work unit, or function to advance program goals and objectives. May supervise staff and/or approve unit expenditures.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Plans, implements, executes, and evaluates existing strategies and objectives for a program and makes recommendations to unit leadership for program or function enhancement
    • Identifies workflow needs, contributes to the development of strategic and operational solutions, allocates resources, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures
    • May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
    • Schedules logistics and secures resources for program activities across multiple work units to ensure optimum efficiency and compliance with appropriate policies, procedures, and specifications
    • Leads the development and preparation of periodic reports and financial statements, and records progress, status, or other special reports for leadership or external agencies
    • May assist in the development and monitoring of the unit or program budget and approve unit expenditures
    • Contributes to the preparation of proposals for funding and/or funding continuation from outside sponsors
  • Education:
    Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    No
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    21: $56,112-104,368
  • Job Code:
    AD005: Administrative Manager

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