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Academic Program Director
Job Group: Academic Services and Student Experience
Job Subgroup: Academic and Student Experience Services
Salary Range (Annual):
Scaled (expand for details) Employee Category: Limited
Job Code: AE070
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Job Summary:
Provides leadership and managerial responsibility for one or more academic program(s), ensuring alignment with the university mission. Directs administrative oversight and academic curriculum development, ensuring optimal integration of student and faculty activities. Ensures resource allocation supports the program's primary objectives. Manages a team of professionals who support the program(s).
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Job Responsibilities:
- 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
- Collaborates with faculty members to develop student academic programs and agendas, directs implementation, and creates curricular structure including operational and logistical arrangements
- Formulates program strategies and goals, directs long-term planning, develops policies and procedures, and establishes and maintains new and emerging program materials
- Evaluates operations and outcomes to ensure alignment with organizational goals
- Serves as the principal liaison between the program, University leadership, and outside entities
- May provide guidance to faculty regarding funding, staffing, and space implications
- Develops the unit budget and approves unit expenditures
- Manages student academic program(s)
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Education:
Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
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FLSA Status:
Exempt
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Institution Job:
No
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Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
Yes
- Employee Category:
Limited
- Scaled Job:
Yes
- Salary Range (Annual):
- 27: $84,800-173,360
- 26: $77,100-157,630 (B)
- 25: $70,100-143,330 (C)
- Job Code:
- AE070: Academic Program Director
- AE127: Academic Program Director (B)
- AE154: Academic Program Director (C)
- Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=AE070