Assistant Dean of Business and Fiscal Affairs

Assistant Dean of Business and Fiscal Affairs

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The College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) is actively seeking an experienced and highly motivated Assistant Dean of Business and Fiscal Affairs with demonstrated experience leading business and financial operations in a complex organization. CEHS is a one‑of‑a‑kind college comprised of seven academic departments that cross a wide range of content areas all focused on improving people’s lives, including Child, Youth and Family Studies;
Educational Administration;
Educational Psychology;
Nutrition and Health Sciences;
Special Education and Communication Disorders;
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education; and Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design. Further, numerous partnerships extend the CEHS mission beyond campus, through centers such as the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic, the Couple and Family Clinic, the Buros Center for Testing, the Kit and Dick Schmoker Reading Center, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Counseling and School Psychology Clinic, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases through Dietary Molecules, and the Ruth Staples Child Development Laboratory.

This position is a senior leadership role that reports directly to the Dean of CEHS to provide support for all matters regarding business and financial operations of the college and the college units. The Assistant Dean operates as the chief business and financial officer of the College. The Assistant Dean maintains operational support and financial reporting systems that ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of the business function for the college and its departments, programs and initiatives.

Responsibilities include budget preparation, financial reports, and business cases; conducting impact and cost/benefit analyses; and identifying funding strategies. Additional responsibilities include oversight of College facilities as well as the management of the College’s human resource activity as it pertains to the appointment of faculty and staff. The Assistant Dean oversees an annual state and research budget in excess of $50 million.

Further, the Assistant Dean will be expected to implement, monitor and adjust best business practices across the college.

The Assistant Dean is supported by three full‑time Business Center Managers and the CEHS Business Center. Together, the Assistant Dean, Business Managers, and Business Center serve the entire college and maintain high levels of customer service and quality to the administration, faculty, staff, and students of the college. In addition, the Assistant Dean is responsive to the needs of central university offices and compliance related to all business and financial affairs.

The incumbent must be an experienced, multi‑faceted, and creative business professional with a thorough understanding of the complexities of a multi‑funded academic‑and research‑oriented organization and have strong supervisory and management skills. This is a special, twelve‑month appointment, starting as soon as feasible.

About Us

CEHS was formed in 2003, by combining Teachers College and the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences. In the more than 20 years since its founding, the newly imagined college has successfully merged and found its own identity. Approximately 2,300 undergraduate students, 850 masters and doctoral students, and more than 380 faculty and staff members are part of the college community.

Although interests vary widely, the unifying commitment to address the physical, intellectual, social and economic well‑being of individuals, families, schools and communities as they function in Nebraska and throughout the world guides the teaching, research, extension, and service of the college.

The college seeks a collaborative business leader with a commitment to data‑driven decision‑making as well as maintaining a collaborative,…