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Extension Operations Managers oversee regional extension and outreach teams located across the Commonwealth. Responsibilities involve leadership and supervision, strategic planning, budgeting and financial management, community relations and collaboration, regulatory/policy requirement compliance.

• Oversee regional extension and outreach teams; lead staff through strategic initiatives and organizational processes
• Develop and maintain relationships with municipal leaders and community members; network, collaborate, and effectively communicate
• Address and incorporate community and regional requests into University academic and research programs
• Plan, execute, and evaluate cooperative extension programs; determine if programs meet regional population needs
• Market extension programs and services for municipal approval or general public information; manage delivery
• Develop, oversee, or maintain budgets; prepare financial analyses, forecasts, and reports; ensure funds are available for operations; collaborate on regional budget allocation/expenditures; authorize transactions; identify cost containment measures and new revenue sources
• Keep abreast of regulatory requirements; develop operational changes, policies, and procedures; establish standards; ensure compliance
• Hire, train, coach, supervise, and evaluate employees; identify and provide professional development opportunities

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 12
• Minimum – $76,700.00
• MidPoint – $95,900.00
• Maximum – $115,100.00