Education:

• Master’s degree required.

Experience:

A minimum of five (5) years of experience in management consulting, strategy, business development, project and program management, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), financial planning & analysis, or public policy.

A minimum of three (3) years of supervisor experience.

* An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job may be acceptable in lieu of those requirements listed above.

Knowledge:

• Strategic planning principles; Experience moving major strategy projects forward with minimal oversight, and ability to adapt to new information, situations, or challenges with minimal guidance.
• Public relations principles; Ability to communicate clearly and compellingly about analyses, insights, and recommendations, and demonstrated ability to target presentation style, written or oral, to different audiences.
• Budget administration principles;
• Program management principles; Demonstrated experience using project management processes and tools and establishing project management methodologies at other organizations with varying degrees of project management maturity.
• Management and leadership principles;
• A broad understanding of contemporary higher education issues, particularly those that relate to public colleges and universities.
• Marketing principles;
• Negotiation and mediation techniques;
• Grant and/or contract administration principles;
• Applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, ordinances, rules and regulations;
• Advanced principles of assigned area of responsibility;
• Computers and related software applications.

Skills:

• The ability to operationalize, track and measure the success of key strategic initiatives.
• Prioritizing and assigning work;
• Analyzing and developing policies and procedures;
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, rules, and regulations;
• Ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations;
• Analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and implementing recommendations in support of goals;
• Analyzing, interpreting, and understanding technical and statistical information;
• Preparing and giving presentations;
• Speaking in public;
• Mediating and resolving conflicts and problems;
• Managing multiple projects and programs simultaneously;
• Writing technical procedures, policies, grants, contracts, and/or other related detailed materials;
• Using a computer and related software applications;
• Monitoring and evaluating employees;
• Ability to work effectively across a spectrum of stakeholders, including faculty, students, administrators, constituency groups/leaders, alumni, and community members, and possess impeccable listening and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated experience making decisions based on quantitative analysis and sound evidence and logic.

Physical:

• Positions in this class typically require: reaching, standing, walking, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.  Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

• Positions in this class typically require: reaching, standing, walking, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.  Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.