Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration

** Job Description
** Reporting to the Dean of the College of Education, the
** Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration
** serves as the chief financial officer for the College and provides leadership, oversight and strategic planning for all finance and administration functions in the College including Finance, Human Resources, the Office of Technology, and College facilities. The Assistant Dean will serve on the Dean’s leadership team and provide recommendations, guidance and decision support to ensure the strategic goals of the College are met.

The Assistant Dean will exercise a high level of independent and professional judgment to develop, propose, and implement strategies and long-range operational planning that advances the goals of the Dean and contributes to the successful business and financial operations of the College. This position will also develop and implement administrative and budgetary policies that provide excellent and proactive resource management and high-quality customer service to college faculty, staff and students.

At the discretion of the Dean, the Assistant Dean will have decision-making authority with respect to allocation and expenditure of funds and will be expected to take initiative and identify solutions to anticipated and emergent issues.

The Assistant Dean will be a strategic leader in the College and must be able to communicate clearly and persuasively about complex financial data and think creatively about how to meet financial and budgetary challenges and opportunities. This position will have frequent and substantive interactions with a variety of internal and external constituents, serving as the direct representative of the Dean as directed, and requires an effective leader with individual initiative, excellent communication skills, and the desire to motivate and serve multiple stakeholders and enable them to meet the expectations of the Dean and the College while working within UW regulations and policies and ensuring overall compliance.
** Primary Responsibilities
**** Strategic Planning
** Serve as a key member of the Dean’s leadership team and act as lead administrative partner for the Dean in promoting and supporting the mission of the College and its finance and administration function. Provide high-level support to the Dean and ensure an effective executive leadership team by establishing priorities, controlling costs, identifying important issues, developing action plans, and monitoring progress towards agreed-upon  partnership with the Dean, College faculty, and staff leadership, including the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Associate Dean for Research, lead strategic thinking in business matters including projected benefits and consequences of decisions, and assist with the development and implementation of a strategic plan for the College.

Provide advice and counsel to the Dean and leadership team on short- and long-term planning and develop key metrics to measure and report on the progress of strategic objectives. Ensure timely decision making on issues of strategic importance.

Lead the development of the comprehensive annual budget/operating plan, and annual Provost Budget Submission process that support the mission, strategic goals and core values of the College. Oversee preparation and prepare submissions of state budget and budget revisions to the Office of Finance, Planning and Budgeting and the Provost’s Office. Organize financial presentations for the Dean, translating complex financial information into general summaries for College faculty, staff and student stakeholders.

Partner with faculty to support the faculty governance process. Serve on the faculty council budget committee and attend regular and ad hoc faculty meetings to share financial information and context to help inform faculty input and advisement to the dean on strategic planning, goal setting and budget planning.

Develop relationships and strong working partnerships with College and University leadership, faculty, students and staff members. Communicate and support the Dean’s strategic priorities and mission and contribute to positive team-building…