Assistant Director, Academic Resources

Working Title:
Assistant Director, Academic Resources

State Role

Title:

N/A

Position Type:Administrative & Professional (Non-teaching Faculty)

Position Status: Full-Time

FLSA Status: Exempt:
Not Eligible for Overtime

College/Division: Academic Affairs Unit

Department: 100199 - Academic Resources

Pay Band: N/A

Pay Rate:Commensurate with Experience

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Is this a JMU only position?No

Is this a grant-funded position?No

Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position?No

Beginning Review Date:10/1/2026

Mission:
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.

Vision:
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.

Who We Are:

Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA.

JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.

JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

The Assistant Director of Academic Resources provides leadership, coordination, and oversight of administrative and operational functions supporting Academic Affairs. Working closely with the Director of Academic Resources, this position manages personnel administration, recruitment and hiring processes, salary analysis, budget coordination, payroll administration, data reporting, and strategic initiatives. The role serves as a primary liaison among Academic Affairs, Human Resources, Finance, Payroll, and university leadership to ensure efficient operations and informed decision making.

The Assistant Director also leads Academic Affairs' participation in Oracle HCM/ERP initiatives, business process improvement efforts, and change management activities while supporting divisional priorities and university goals.

Provides managerial support and oversight of operational and administrative functions within Academic Resources (AR) --in partnership with the Director of Academic Resources, supervises the activities of the department to include personnel action approvals/workflow, data management/analytics, budget support, AR HUB maintenance and oversees all Reengineering Madison/Oracle HCM & ERP activities for the department and represents Academic Affairs' (AA) interests (as needed).

Personnel action approval and workflow management - serves as primary manager of personnel actions for all positions in AA, supervises Academic Resources Personnel Operations Coordinator, administrator and primary coordinator of recruiting process for all full-time positions in Academic Affairs to include salary review for all new full-time position hires, manages the tracking and approval of all full-time AP/Instructional faculty lines and Classified positions with operational support from Academic Resources Analysts;

manages the vacant position review process; oversees compression/inversion salary adjustment process; oversees tracking of all newly established full time positions and related information…