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.
  Responsible for overseeing a property-based venture which has master-planned property and buildings designed primarily for private/public research and development facilities, high technology, and science-based companies and support services. Promotes the institution's research and development through partnerships that support the unit's mission.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Directs, implements, and monitors strategic planning initiatives to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources
  • Provides leadership and oversight in financial operations including developing and administering budgets and oversight of contracts, reviewing outside entities responsible for managing the investment portfolio, and other funds to ensure adherence to accounting practices, compliance regulations, and law
  • 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 FTE or equivalent employees
  • Serves as a key liaison to internal and external stakeholders to maintain strategic business relationships that foster development objectives
  • Serves as a point of contact and unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing organizational information and representing the interests of the unit
  • Serves as the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the University Research Park, Inc. Board of Trustees, and the primary staff person for the Board of Trustees
  • Schedules logistics and secures resources for the design, construction, and development of master-planned properties and buildings for private/public research and development facilities, high technology, science-based companies, and support services
  • Oversees negotiation of leases, construction of tenant improvements, and ongoing maintenance and management of property
• 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.
  No
• 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.
  32: $192,736-358,488
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  AD078: Chief Campus Research Park Administrator

Knowledges 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.

• Knowledges: Understanding of concepts.
  Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Administration and Management
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Economics and Accounting
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Public Safety and Security
• Skills: Capabilities and proficiencies developed through training and experience. Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Coordination
  • Critical Thinking
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Management of Financial Resources