Assistant Director Of Gear

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
MASS Building 2nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:

Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m.

Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

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Posting Number: SRGV
8852

Working Title:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF GEAR UP

Number of Vacancies: 1

Location:

Edinburg, Texas

Department:
College Access & K-12 Partners

FTE: 1

FLSA:
Exempt

Scope of Job:
To assist the director with overseeing the day to day business operations, grant compliance and management of the GEAR UP program.

• Assists the Director in managing the daily financial and operational functions of the GEAR UP program.
• Assists the director with identifying, collecting and documenting a dollar for dollar match on annual grant award; failure to collect required match may result in a reduction of annual grant award.
• Responsible for partnership development and management including oversight of all collaborations as outlined in the grant inclusive of service proposals, procurement process, invoicing, and partner service evaluations.
• Acts as a resource to school district administrators, GEAR UP Coordinators, educational partners, and financial support staff for budget changes, purchase approvals, budget planning, and in-kind match.
• Establishes internal controls to ensure compliance with federal legislation and regulations regarding the operation of the GEAR UP grant to determine all expenditures meet uniform guidance and are allowable, allocable and reasonable.
• Serve as a liaison to the internal university support departments such as Procurement, Grants and Contracts, and Office of Sponsored Programs and to external school districts central administration and finance departments.
• Responsible for managing the programs budget and ensures that all project related expenditures are compliant with the Federal Office of Management and Budget Circulars, university fiscal policies, and grant objectives.
• Assists the Director in planning, directing, and executing a project management plan to satisfactorily meet all objectives and sub-objectives of the grant requirements.
• Collects, compiles, analyzes expense data for educational programs and compares student outcomes, return on investment, and provides recommendations for continual improvement.
• Develops and implements training procedures, standards, department guidelines, handbooks, forms, etc. to effectively manage all aspects of the grant.
• Assists in oversight of grant internal and external evaluation protocols such as evaluation framework, data collection, statistical analyses, surveys services, and data base management.
• Assists in completion of the Annual Performance Report to the US Department of Education and creates a variety of reports for project stakeholders on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Develops, cultivates, and maintains working relationships with internal/external departments/agencies and other organizations associated with and/or receiving benefit from the program.
• Responsible for working with and understanding large data systems…