Overview | The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) is the largest academic unit at Rutgers University and the center of the undergraduate experience on the Rutgers–New Brunswick campus and is comprised of 41 academic departments spanning the liberal arts. SAS offers more than 100 majors and minors across the life sciences, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and mathematical and physical sciences with research centers and institutes across the school. With a diverse student body of more than 20,000 students, SAS has a membership of over 1,700 faculty members, more than 500 administrative staff, and 200,000 living alumni. SAS delivers a wide array of services in support of the teaching, research, and the mission and goals of Rutgers University. The School of Arts and Sciences promotes anti-racist, inclusive, equity-enhancing ideas and practices both inside and outside of the classroom for our community of educators, staff, and students. This includes a diverse set of voices and experiences. All individuals no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, history, sexual orientation, religious practices, or socio-economic status are valued and respected. The School of Arts and Sciences is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to and support the diversity and excellence of the organization. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further our commitment to these values. |
Posting Summary | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Divisional Director Administration Life Sciences for the Dean’s Office within the School of Arts & Sciences. Reporting to the Dean of Life Sciences for the School of Arts and Sciences, the Director of Administration is an advisor to the Dean of Life Sciences, a member of his/her leadership team, and a key resource to the Department Administrators of the Life Sciences departments.
Among the key duties of this position are the following: - Develops a “mission-focused” culture amongst the administrative team, enabling the provision of excellent support to the faculty, students and staff of the Life Sciences departments.
- Works with Department Administrators to communicate, adapt, implement, and enforce financial, human resource, technology, or space management policies and procedures throughout the Life Sciences; to steward department and SAS assets.
- Provides reliable operational information to a wide range of users internally and externally.
- Serves as a conduit for information sharing across all departments, advocates for, and represents the Life Sciences departments’ interests.
- Handles the oversight, management, and control of fiscal resources for Life Sciences units, the human resources operations related to faculty and staff within the Life Sciences units, and the operation, space utilization, and support of Life Sciences buildings and related facilities services and capital assets.
- Handles significant hands-on contributions to institutional planning and to operational strategy development and implementation.
- Coordinates and consolidates at the area level, of departmental annual reports, strategic plans financial and budget information, staffing plans, academic mission and other departmental activities.
- Provides guidance to and assists Department Administrators and is their first point of contact for University and School policy implementation and compliance, operations support, research support, purchasing, special programs/events and other functions.
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