Department: Electrical Engineering
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description
Manages the day-to-day operations of a large university program or department, including the supervision of staff employees, student workers, programs or processes.
- Plans and develops procedures for administering a large or complex department or program.
- Manages fiscal activities, including procurement and budget analysis.
- Provides guidance to subordinate staff and evaluates performance.
- Prepares abstracts, research reports, funding proposals, operations and procedure manuals, and other written material and documentation.
- Creates and reviews reports of expenditures and activities.
- May administer grants and grant-related related communications, scholarships and other operations.
- Develops, implements and maintains appropriate policies and procedures.
- May serve as property custodian for the department.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Additional duties that the department would like to be considered for this position include: provides guidance, administer trainings, and evaluate performance of front office staff; assist chair, faculty and staff with event planning; coordinate programs for the department and centers, (e.g. locating venues, finding caterers and setting up for events); works with chair and financial team on developing budget for events, especially fundraisers; coordinate with student advisory committee and relevant staff on campus outreach programs; serve as liaison for the chair, faculty and staff with other university departments and offices; make travel arrangements for chair and guests, screens all incoming telephone calls, sorts and prioritizes mail; draft routine responses to correspondence as needed; manage the process for the development and completion of dossiers for chair to review for university rank, tenure and promotion for approval; drafting offer, reappointment, and summer agreement letters for faculty; essential duty of assisting the department chair with creating, developing and entering the master course schedule for classes offered by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department each academic year and summer sessions;
Preferences
- Familiarity working in higher education and particularly directly with faculty.
- Master’s level degree and above preferred.
- Experience in immigration processes for international hires.
- Experience in Campus Solutions and Ad Astra
Experience will be considered in lieu of education.
Education: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4 year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Experience: Requires a minimum of one (1) year of directly job-related experience. Certification/Licensing: None.
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 Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.
