Manager of Finance and Business Operations

The Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts (CINE) at CU Boulder invites applications for the Manager of Finance and Operations position! This role reports directly to the Chair. In this capacity, the position will provide high-level budgetary, financial, policy, and administrative support to the Chair. This position is primarily responsible for oversight and policy related to department operations, including finance and human resources.

This position engages in long-term strategic projects, planning in consultation with the Chair and Associate Chairs in addition to supervising business office staff.

This position will apply knowledge and interpret principles, rules, regulations, policies, precedents, and other guidelines specific to the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the State of Colorado in order to analyze needs, resolve problems, answer questions, and provide information. Advise on technical issues and ensure timely and effective delivery of department, college, and university services to faculty, staff, and student employees.

Further, the person in this position must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and have the ability to successfully manage multiple self-directed projects that may, at times, have contending priorities. Thus, the individual in this position must have a strong administrative background and excellent skills in business administration, fiscal and personnel management.

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.

The Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts (CINE) seeks to integrate the critical, historical and theoretical study of cinema, media and the visual arts, with artistic and commercial practices. Our Department offers the academic degrees BA, and BA/MA in critical film studies, and BA, BFA, and MFA degrees in film and video arts. All of our students in the critical and production tracks complete a number of critical studies requirements, including cinema history, film analysis, film theory, genres, documentary practices, directors, national and regional cinemas, and other history and theory classes.

These courses are all coordinated with filmmaking and critical studies majors sharing their different expertise to make for a more engaging, deeper understanding of the subject of our studies.

• Serve as the administrative manager responsible for, but not limited to, organizing and implementing new faculty orientation, faculty recruitment, faculty promotion, reappointment, and tenure, and faculty merit.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for new faculty with respect to university and departmental policies; general payroll questions; in-house travel and research grants; travel authorization and reimbursement; start-up funds; research accounts; faculty computer purchase program; and office space.
• Schedules meetings and compiles information for the departmental Salary Committee for annual merit evaluation of faculty.
• Be responsible for and coordinates academic appointments,reappointments, promotions, tenure, retention activities and grievance procedures for department faculty.
• Compiles and organizes information for faculty and teaching professor reappointment, tenure and promotion.
• Keeps current records of faculty eligibility for sabbatical, reappointment, tenure, and post-tenure review.
• Maintains and disseminates current and accurate version of departmental faculty rules.
• Conducts faculty elections for reappointment/tenure promotion; hiring; administrative positions; committee positions; and departmental faculty rule changes. Assures that all eligible faculty members are informed of balloting procedures and deadlines. Assures security and secrecy of balloting process as appropriate.
• Monitors faculty progress on submitting Faculty Report of Professional Activities; reminds faculty to submit reports; provides reports and other databases and information as requested to the Salary Committee.
• Serve as liaison for faculty to ensure they are provided the appropriate employment-related offices, including the College, Faculty…