Manager- Academic Operations Residency Events
Manager- Academic Operations Residency Events
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Job Description
Opportunity at a Glance
The Manager Academic Operations works closely with university faculty and leaders in colleges as well as academic support staff in various departments to develop plan and deliver synchronous virtual and inperson academic residency events. This role directly influences the faculty/staff and student journey experience. Reporting to the Director of Operations within the Office of Academic Affairs the Manager will collaborate on supporting branches of our strategic plan including focusing on unique and elite student experiences and fostering a sense of belonging. This involves engaging in residency strategy planning and working with team members and colleagues in other areas on logistical planning for residencies labs and intensives. In this role you will work as a member of our Academic Affairs Team in an environment that values collaboration innovation and diverse perspectives. As an Manager youll need to have a strong interest in technology and communications. Youll need excellent interpersonal and written communication skills and demonstrated proficiency in Excel. Previous experience with synchronous inperson and virtual events is beneficial. You should also have a desire to develop best practices and processes and keep current on trends technologies and approaches. This position will also include continuous process improvement communications across teams and engage in problem solving as issues arise.
Responsibilities
- Plans coordinates and organizes logistics for synchronous virtual and inperson doctoral academic residencies labs and intensives.
- Collaborates with faculty and support staff for planning and delivery of synchronous academic experiences.
- Partners with the team and program stakeholders to ensure that academic content is current and synchronous experiences are engaging foster a sense of belonging and achieve university and programmatic goals and objectives.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for doctoral academic residencies labs and intensives.
- Manages and oversees event builds in various platforms as well as faculty/staff and student event communications.
- Manages residency registration opening builds the event management platform content residency website content and residency policies and information in the Walden University Catalog and Student Handbook.
- Reviews develops and administers procedures and processes for residencies that support branches of the strategic plan including areas that contribute to unique and elite student experiences and fostering a sense of belonging throughout the community.
- Monitors adherence to university policies and seeks to improve operations practices and systems that focus on strategic priorities.
- Gathers and analyzes data relating to synchronous academic activities and assessments for dashboards and reports on event and/or team performance.
- Assigns faculty and staff to residencies labs and intensives and manages faculty/staff assignment changes.
- Responds to student inquiries in Salesforce.
- Supervises colleagues within the Academic Affairs Team.
- Responds to adhoc requests for residency data and information.
- Assists in creating microbudgets and reports as needed.
- Orients new staff on the policies procedures and operations of the unit.
- Represents team at pertinent meetings.
- Travels to support academic residencies labs intensives and other academic events. Work hours will flex periodically to accommodate evening and weekend event support.
- Designs workflows and procedures manages workflow and adjusts when necessary. Sets clear work unit policies and procedures.
- Fosters a success oriented accountable environment.
- Evidence of effective and innovative leadership and excellent problemsolving skills shown through accountability and superior results.
- Support special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors Degree Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in business administration contract management or a related field.
- 5 years of professional work experience preferably in online higher education industry.
- Experience managing or leading teams. Preferred
- Successful experience in relationship management across a range of partners. Lead healthy communications and collaborations internally and externally.
- Perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Incumbents will be evaluated in part based on performance of each essential function.
- Strong communication facilitation organizational negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Superior written and verbal communication skills with an outstanding attention to detail.
- Willingness to mentor lead prioritize work projects and creatively problemsolve across teams.
- Demonstrates accountability in all aspects of responsibility.
- Models leadership and professionalism.
- Must be thorough and detailoriented. Must have excellent timemanagement and organizational skills.
- Creative innovative able to work independently on several projects simultaneously with little or no supervision.
- Ability to manage assigned projects while assisting internal customers as needed. Ability to handle sensitive and private company matters confidentially and with integrity.
- Proven mastery of MS Excel Outlook Word Teams SharePoint Salesforce Banner and Canvas. Experience with Certain and Zoom is preferred.
- Must have demonstrated evidence of consistently exhibiting healthy organizational behaviors.
- Must be familiar with and adhere to the Adtalem Code of Conduct and Ethics.
- Must gain & maintain confidence and trust of others through honesty integrity and authenticity.
- Must be able to build strong customer relationships and deliver customercentric solutions.
Additional Information :
In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country the expected salary range for this position is between $53520.9 and $93918.96. Actual pay will be adjusted based on jobrelated factors permitted by law such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.
Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:
- Health dental vision life and disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Program 6 employer match
- Participation in Adtalems Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
- 12 Paid Holidays
For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem/benefits.
Equal Opportunity Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
