Title and Standard Job Description Library

• Job Summary: The job summary is a brief statement explaining the primary functions of the job, including its main purpose and overall goal.
  Serves as a chief administrative and strategic officer in an area under the purview of a Vice Chancellor. Plans, directs and provides administrative, operational, and strategic leadership of one or more recognized departments or divisions.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Provides leadership for programs by establishing strategic direction and setting priorities that align with the strategic directives of the Office of the Chancellor, ensures units effectively carry out duties in a way that best supports the university's initiatives. Provides direct supervision of program leadership, and monitors compliance with laws, regulations, university policies and procedures, and relevant contractual obligations
  • Advises and collaborates with the Chancellor and/or Vice Chancellor on critical issues, represents the functional area of supervision and/or Chancellor or Vice Chancellor at appropriate meetings and events as requested; and serves on and/or leads various program and/or university committees as directed to address issues
  • Monitors on-going assessment and continuous improvement of programs and services by guiding the establishment of annual goals, ensuring progress towards goals is met, articulating challenges, and reporting on annual outcomes and achievements for programs and services
  • Ensures initiatives are effectively using program assessment and data analysis to improve initiatives and strategies, identifies opportunities for improvement, and makes recommendations to the Vice Chancellor for approval
  • Leads special initiatives and/or grant-funded programs that require the Vice Chancellor's attention with respect to program design, planning, coordination, and interaction with internal and external stakeholders
  • Builds consensus and develops collegial, collaborative working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, partners with administrative and academic departments to support initiatives, and gathers input from key stakeholders to support recommendations
  • Exercises 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 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Education: Education describes the minimum level of education that people in this job usually have. Education that is a preferred minimum is recommended for this job but not required. Relevant work experience can satisfy preferred minimum education. A hiring manager may include additional education requirements when recruiting for a position.
  Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
• FLSA Status: Federal regulations determine Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status. Employees who are non-exempt receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Employees who are exempt do not receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
  Exempt
• Institution Job: A job that has primary responsibilities that impact the majority or the entirety of the institution, or has significantly larger scope than the school/college/division in which it resides, and typically contains “(Inst)” in the job title or mentions “institution” or “enterprise” in a standard job description.
  Yes
• Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees: The supervisor directly oversees the equivalent of at least 2.0 FTE employees or indirectly oversees one or more supervisors. The supervisor has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, manage conduct and performance, discharge, assign, reward, and discipline employees. The supervisor typically reviews the work of employees and may approve employee timesheets.
  Yes
• Employee Category: Each employee category is unique in type of work performed, job security, benefits package, and/or ability to organize unions. Assignment to an employee category is based upon job title. Refer to the UW–Madison Employment Categories policy for more information.
  Limited
• Scaled Job: Jobs with the same title may have a different scope of work based on the school, college, or division where the work is performed. Scaling recognizes these differences based on the scope, impact, and complexity of the work performed. A scaled job title has multiple salary grades to align with market data. Learn more about job scaling.
  No
• Salary Range (Annual): Jobs in the same salary grade have similar pay in the market. Each salary grade has a salary range that includes a minimum and a maximum. A job is paid between the minimum and maximum of its salary grade. Learn more about UW's salary structure.
  99: Varies by job title
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  AD009: Associate Vice Chancellor (Inst)

Knowledge and Skills Learning Resources

Each standard job description is linked to a list of knowledges and skills. Knowledges and skills are optional resources to support employee learning and development. Visit the Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources website to learn more.

• Knowledge: Understanding of concepts.
  Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Administration and Management
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Mathematics
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Production and Processing
• Skills: Capabilities and proficiencies developed through training and experience. Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Active Listening
  • Coordination
  • Monitoring
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking