Next Frontier Program Director

Job Summary/Basic Function:

Within the Office of the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and Vice President for Finance and Operations the primary purpose of this position is to efficiently manage and sustain the overall Next Frontier Program (NFP) implementation.

NFP is a multi-year initiative already in-progress to establish and implement a strategy for a data-empowered culture at Boise State University to enable timely accurate accessible and readily visualizable data and analytics for the campus community.

The person in this role will build key collaborations across Divisions of the university in addition to working closely with the Next Frontier Committee which includes members from various divisions in the Academic and Operations areas. The position reports directly to the CFO lives outside of the existing data/analytical units by design and is expected to coordinate across these units as well as across Divisions of the university.

Essential Functions:

• Foster partnerships mutually beneficial relationships and trust with the campus community broadly with special emphasis on customer service and end users needs.
• Through engagement with and accountability to all executive leadership and other campus stakeholders identify and address campus-wide analytical and operational reporting needs when developing solutions.
• Work closely with the Information Technology Planning Committees (ITPC) Decision Support Subcommittee in particular the Next Frontier Committee including to re-envision its roles and responsibilities with respect to NFP and to enable the RCM budget modernization process.
• Work closely with the Division of Finance and Operations (including the Office of Information Technology) Division of Academic Affairs (including the Office of the Provost and Institutional Effectiveness) Division of Research and Economic Development and Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management on established high-priority needs.
• Collaboratively develop and implement NFP goals objectives strategies tactics metrics governance and standards.
• Conduct regular reviews and assessments to ensure that NFPs (including multiple related projects) deliverables are progressing on-time and according to quality benchmarks.
• Maintain accurate and current NFP documentation including project plans decisions campus engagement records risk registers and issue logs.
• Optimize resource utilization human and otherwise and make adjustments as needed to meet changing NFP demands.
• Skillfully manage the NFP budget overall and across individual projects and promptly address issues as they arise.
• Generate NFP status reports (e.g. program and budget) dashboards and presentations for executive leadership and other campus stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain regular campus-wide communications including building and maintaining an internal website with updated news and statuses emails to the campus community and other open hours presentations and social media posts etc. as may be appropriate from time to time.
• Revitalize and improve the end user experience through training and resources making data more easily accessible and cultivating a culture of data literacy.
• Pursue a modern scalable and sustainable data warehouse and architecture and the tools needed for reporting operational data and advanced analytics.
• Implement a strategic approach to projects and processes that has a cross-functional view aligned to the overall analytics vision and includes end user input/involvement for functional requirements and systems decision making.
• Strengthen existing data governance and management activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:

• Exceptional leadership collaboration communication and organizational skills to successfully address campus-wide operational and analytical reporting needs.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to align NFP priorities with the universitys goals.
• Ability to engage stakeholders from multiple divisions and elicit/implement requirements.
• Ability to communicate and explain complex topics in laypersons terms to ensure that campus stakeholders remain informed and engaged.
• Ability to develop high-quality solutions by leveraging cross-functional teams to validate information and test out the user experience.
• Ability to calmly handle multiple changing priorities and competing deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of project management business process design reengineering and change management.
• Actively listens and employs empathy to understand stakeholders and their needs.
• Proficient risk management problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Develops and maintains relationships with stakeholders and end-users.
• Successful working independently and as part of a team.
• A self-starter driven by a standard of excellence.

MinimumQualifications:

Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience including 1 year of managerial experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in business project management data analytics social sciences educational research higher education or a related field.
• 8 years of similar experience and leadership experience and/or skills necessary to coordinate and collaborate with various project managers project teams and leaders.
• 5 years of increasing responsibility in management roles preferably in program and/or project management.
• 5 years of experience at doctoral research institutions of higher education including broad experience with academic administrative and auxiliary units.
• 5 years of experience with business process design change management and program/project management.
• Experience with multiple types of higher education data structures modeling and analytics including Responsibility Center Management (RCM) budgets at doctoral research institutions of higher education.
• Technical education and experience including a working knowledge of program/project management software and experience implementing a data warehouse and data analytics projects.
• Experience building and following strict budgets.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary range is $97884.80 to $117000 annually and is commensurate with State University provides a best-in-classbenefits package including (but not limited to):

• 12paid holidaysAND the University is closed between Christmas and New Years (requires use of 3 vacation days)
• Between 12-24annual paid vacation daysfor full-time Professional and Classified staff depending on position type and years of service
• 10.76% University contribution to yourORP retirement fund(Professional and Faculty employees)
• 11.96% University contribution to yourPERSI retirement fund(Classified employees)
• Excellent medical dental and otherhealth-related insurancecoverages
• Tuition fee waiverbenefits for employees spouses and their dependents
• See ourfull benefits pagefor more information!

Required Application Materials:

Cover letter and resume.

About Us:

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