Strategic Manager, Office Dean Egan School of Nursing & Health Studies

Fairfield University is a co-educational, comprehensive Jesuit university with a 200-acre campus located along the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, CT. The University is comprised of approximately 3,500 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students pursuing degrees within 5 schools:
The College of Arts and Sciences, The Charles

F. Dolan School of Business, The School of Engineering, The Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, and School of Education and Human Development. As an expression of our Jesuit, Catholic mission and identity, Fairfield embraces a liberal humanistic approach to education, encouraging critical thinking, cultivating free and open inquiry, and fostering ethical and religious values.

Academic Division

Egan School of Nursing & Health Studies

The Strategic Manager serves as principal strategic deputy to the Dean, managing the flow of executive priorities, decisions, and follow-through across the Egan School. Reporting to the Dean, the primary responsibilities of the position include ownership of the School’s strategic tracking instruments and governance cascade, coordination of cross-functional initiatives spanning the academic departments and the Division of Student Success, preparation of executive and advisory board materials, and liaison between the Office of the Dean and central University offices across the Fairfield and Austin locations.

The position requires a high degree of independent judgment and discretion in handling confidential matters.

• Have a bachelor’s degree in business, higher education administration, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.

• Have a minimum of seven years of progressively responsible administrative, operational, or project-management experience, including direct support to senior leadership.

• Demonstrate skill in executive writing and editing, data-management, governance and meeting management, and project tracking.

• Have proficiency with integrated enterprise systems (Workday or equivalent) and data-reporting tools Tableau or equivalent).

• Exercise discretion, confidentiality, and sound independent judgment, with strong interpersonal, communication, organizational,and analytical skills.

• Serve as principal strategic deputy to the Dean, managing the flow of executive priorities, decisions, and follow-through across Egan.

• Own the strategic report and the dashboard, tracking action items and reporting progress against Egan’s strategic priorities.

• Maintain the decision queue for the Office of the Dean, ensuring commitments are recorded, assigned, and tracked to completion.

• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that span units, including accreditation milestones, strategic partnerships, and program expansion, convening responsible parties and monitoring progress against deadlines.

• Draft the Egan annual report and related briefing materials for budget cycle presentations and executive meetings.

• Track sponsored-program and grant reporting deadlines and deliverables at the Dean’s Office level, coordinating with principal investigators and the Office of Grants and Research to ensure timely submission, without assuming financial administration of awards.

• Support advisory board and stakeholder communication for the Kanarek Center for Palliative Care

• Prepare briefing materials and background analysis to support the Dean’s decision-making and external representation.

• Draft and distribute Egan all-school updates to faculty and staff on behalf of the Egan leadership team.

• Coordinate the governance cascade for the School, preparing agendas, materials, and minutes for school-wide meetings, the Leadership Team, the Advisory Board, the…