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Academic Program Manager

Job Group: Academic Services and Student Experience
Job Subgroup: Academic and Student Experience Services
Salary Range (Annual): 22: $53,700-109,670
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: AE024
  • Job Summary:
    Leads the development, implementation, and ongoing operations of one or more academic programs to ensure effectiveness in meeting strategic, departmental, and student development goals. May manage the program budget and outreach activities and supervise program staff. Strives to create a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive work environment.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Leads the development and implementation of academic program initiatives
    • 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
    • Serves as the liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups to identify and maintain academic program-related partnerships
    • Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and academic program objectives
    • Evaluates existing academic program strategy and makes recommendations to unit leadership for program enhancement
    • May manage the unit budget and approve unit expenditures
    • Assists stakeholders with preparing and/or maintaining documentation, financial management, and/or reporting requirements related to sponsored grants, contracts, or agreements
    • Provides full service advising resources and services, provides information about educational options and academic requirements, and communicates directly with students regarding all aspects of the advising process
    • Manages degree programs and/or certificates, high impact practice programming and events, and curriculum development and implementation
  • 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):
    22: $53,700-109,670
  • Job Code:
    AE024: Academic Program Manager
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=AE024

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