Director, College Operations and Analytics (Finance)

Department: Dean of HSH Salary:
Description:

The Director, College Operations and Analytics provides overall coordination of academic operations for the College of Human Science and Humanities (HSH). Plans, implements and evaluates college-wide initiatives for recruitment, communication, accountability, and technology in collaboration with college faculty, administration and support units. Works with college leadership to formulate, perform, and report data analyses. Serves as liaison between the College and external University units dealing with communications, assessment, technology and recruiting.

Duties:

• Works with the college's leadership to collect, analyze, and interpret qualitative and quantitative data, (including statistical analyses). Communicates data and findings via written reports and oral presentations.
• Supervises and coordinates the activities of all staff members in the HSH Dean's Office as a member of the college's administrative team.
• Works with University Marketing and Communications and University Advancement to grow audiences and to build support for college-sponsored initiatives.
• Provides leadership and strategic planning in the development and coordination of the College's communication activities through the website, recruitment materials, and social media outlets.
• Coordinates administrative support activities of college and department administrative support personnel, including all full-time, part-time, and student employees
• Coordinates college, department, and program responses to cyclical reporting activities and performs related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree.
2. Minimum five years of advanced data analytics and reporting experience, including statistical analyses.
3. Supervision of a staff of at least 6 people.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Evidence of experience performing self-directed data analyses in support of strategic planning.
• History of supervisory advancement.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of techniques for obtaining and analyzing data to conceptualize and respond to operational problems.
• Knowledge of management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of techniques for developing communication of programs to promote organization's strategic plans and accomplishments.
• Skills in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Skills using data analytic and presentation software.
• Skills in motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Skills in identifying and remedying operational inefficiencies.
• Ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• The ability to organize/interpret information and present it effectively in oral and written communication.
• The ability to supervise and coordinate staff and faculty activities across multiple organizational levels.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.