- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - NATIONAL PROGRAMS & OPERATIONS Seattle
- University of Washington in Seattle, WA, United States
- jobs
- 2 weeks ago
jobs description
Req #: 242491
Department: FOSTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Appointing Department Web Address: https://foster.uw.edu/centers/consulting-and-business-development-center/
Job Location Detail: Hybrid eligible
Posting Date: 01/10/2025
Closing Info: Closes On 01/17/2025
Salary: $6853 - $10279 per month
Shift: First Shift
Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf)
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.
This position refines and implements the Center’s national program strategy including the strategic plan for Ascend, The Tenure Project, Bradford-Osborne Research Award, Minority Business Executive Program, and Fostering Inclusion. This position ensures national program evaluation, manages the Center’s national program staff, national program operations and administration. With the Director and Deputy Director, this position secures financial support and manages relationships with funders of national programs, and stakeholders internal to UW.
The Assistant Director of National Programs & Operations will collaborate with the Director of Programs in making strategic decisions that impact the Center’s national education for business owners experiential learning for enrolled students and research. This position and be responsible for managing the national program team’s day-to-day execution, ensuring the expectations of corporate, foundation, and individual funders are met. The Assistant Director of National Programs & Operations will serve as the point of contact for the Center’s national programs and serve as the lead content expert on the national work and impact.
The Consulting and Business Development Center is the nation's largest university-based and business-school based center focused on advancing insights about and fostering progress for socially and economically disadvantaged businesses. This position is responsible for leading and innovating programs that will expand that national leadership role.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
PROGRAM DELIVERY (70%)
• Develop national program strategy and finalize with the Center's Director of Programs, Deputy Director and Director.
• Make strategic decisions that impact the Center’s national programs.
• Lead the national program team’s day-to-day execution, including implementing the strategic direction and meeting program objectives, goals, and benchmarks.
• Implement program evaluation systems and measure and monitor impact metrics to ensure program effectiveness.
• Serve as the point of contact for Ascend, the Bradford-Osborne Research Award, Fostering Inclusion Workshop, The Tenure Project, and other programs with a national impact. This will include securing external funders and partners (who serve as volunteers and/or consultants) that ensure the sustainable success of national programs.
• Serve as the lead content expert on national programs and champion of its impact.
• Ascend – Annual site-visits, regular phone/video meetings, and create the agenda and lead quarterly virtual meetings for partners across the US.
• Ascend National Cohort Hubs – Schedule and conduct prep sessions with faculty, make decisions on curriculum and learning objectives with the Center's Faculty Director, and hold orientation and check-in sessions.
• With corporate, middle market, and business association partners engage national team staff in recruiting business participants and volunteers.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT (15%)
• Model the organizational culture using the CBDC’s core values.
• Supervise and grow the skills of direct reports in high-quality program execution. This will include regular check-ins for supervision, coaching, mentoring, thought partnership, core values alignment, performance reviews, and professional development.
• Monitor national team staff member performance metrics to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluation, and goal setting.
• Empower staff to hold vision and strategy in executing their work.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop, train, retain, and terminate national team staff members.
• Support the national team’s staff members in using and complying with the operational systems, processes, controls, and procedures, including project management tools and software, that maximize the overall efficiency of the Center
• Work with the Center's Faculty Director to support Foster faculty in their research on issues relevant to the Center
PROGRAM OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION (15%)
• Prepare quarterly financial reports used in making budget decisions
• Track revenue and gift income for both Washington State and National programs
• Ensure the Center's compliance with all UW and Foster School financial management policies and practices
• Create a national programs budget and monitor spending.
• Identify, engage, and negotiate with vendors providing services applicable to the Center’s national programs (including drafting RFPs and screening proposals), and ensure the national team complies with applicable laws and regulatory requirements.
• Identify the most relevant and efficient hardware and software needed to maximize the national team’s ability to collaborate, create and store documents, communicate, and maximize productivity.
Lead Responsibilities:
• Success of national programs
• Professional growth and work accountability of direct reports
• Budgeting and financial management
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• This position will have 2-4 direct FTE reports and may from time to time have student assistants work in support roles.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in business, communications, education, economics, ethnic studies, or similar plus a minimum of 5-years experience.
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
The ideal candidate has strong skills in program strategy and delivery, evaluation, project management, team management, and interpersonal communication. The ideal candidate is passionate about growing business that build wealth for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and businesses in under-served communities. The ideal candidate fully believes in the Center’s M-cubed model of Management education, Money through loans and investments, and Market access through contracts with anchor institutions such as universities and hospitals, government agencies and large corporations, and is committed to building M3 solutions to accelerate the growth of inner-city businesses and businesses owned by people of color.
Desired Qualifications
Qualified candidates with a lived experience of navigating structural barriers and who reflect the community served by the Center, add considerable value to this work. Experience leading business support and student experiential learning programs in Washington State or across the country is also desired.
WORKING CONDITIONS
The Consulting and Business Development Center is a team-oriented environment where we have shared goals and individual accountability in contributing to reaching those goals. Work is fast-paced and highly variable with significant room for professional growth and development. Travel and evening and weekend work on occasion will be required.
Eligible for hybrid work with the expectation of at least one day per week on the Seattle campus and the ability to be on campus any day of the work week as needed to fulfill job responsibilities.
Application Process:
The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you log into your “My Jobs” page. If you choose to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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