Undergraduate Program Professional

Undergraduate Program Professional Position

The Department of Economics at CU Boulder welcomes applications for the Undergraduate Program Professional Position! This role is vital to the overall health of the academic operations of the department and is responsible for ensuring that these operations run smoothly and that operational decisions are data-informed. The individual in this role is responsible for supporting undergraduate students academically and developmentally, while also guiding them through applied experiences in alignment with the College's and Division's vision that all SSCI students participate in an applied experience before graduation.

This role also provides accurate, timely, and relevant analytic support to staff and faculty within the department to improve academic operations, including, but not limited to, course scheduling. This position uses initiative and professional judgment to create and build interdisciplinary relationships to improve student experience, including with other academic units, the Academic Advising Center, numerous units in the Division of Student Affairs, the Alumni Association, and various student organizations.

This position designs and implements new ideas for programming, communication, and processes to maintain and improve undergraduate education in the department. Additionally, this includes collaborating with faculty, staff, and students to innovate strategies to enhance the opportunities, performance, retention, and graduation rates of students. The position serves as the clearinghouse for rule, policy, and program changes and is responsible for informing faculty, staff, and students of these changes, as well as developing strategies to implement those changes, and is responsible for incorporating student feedback into department operations and decisions.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Academic Program Operations

• This position is responsible for clarifying and educating constituents on policies, resources and goals related to academic program operations (constituents include students, alums, faculty, staff, affiliated offices and individuals).
• Oversees and implements all academic course scheduling and processes within the department and with the Office of the Registrar and A&S curriculum office. Gathers and analyzes student and course data to inform department faculty and staff, as well as advisors, on enrollment and registration issues, as well as general student and curricular issues. Gathers and analyzes data from teaching requests, multi-year course enrollments (including waitlists and fill rates), and advises faculty and staff leaders on changes needed for academic course scheduling to meet student demand.
  
  Initiates and facilitates group meetings to determine annual course schedules.
• Oversees the department's undergraduate fellowship, scholarship, and prize opportunities, application reviews, awarding, and post-acceptance in the university's common scholarship platform (BAM), in compliance with UCB Scholarship Administration Policy & Gift Fund Purpose Reports.
• Oversees the department's undergraduate student applied experience programming (research, internships, community engagement, etc.). Advises students and faculty on departmental applied experience opportunities, requirements, policies, and procedures. Maintains records of student progress and success in applied experience programming, analyzes and provides data to the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, helps with the further analysis of this data to track the Department's progress in increasing the number of SSCI undergraduates who obtain applied experience.
  
  Coordinates events to highlight undergraduate achievements and recruit students to participate in departmental applied experience programs.
• Oversees departmental Honors admissions and examinations.
• Oversees the undergraduate student registration process by monitoring data entry into CU-SIS; researches registration problems; advises and assists faculty members, instructors, and undergraduate students during each semester's enrollment and schedule adjustment period. Registers students for undergraduate internship and independent-study credits.
• Leads the departmental curricular processes, including oversight of faculty CIM requests including new course proposals, current course changes and yearly catalog edits. This requires expertise in Office of the Registrar curricular policies and close coordination with the A&S curriculum office to ensure alignment with A&S gen ed and curricular nominations/reviews and advises faculty accordingly.
• Oversees Special Action and Change of…