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Campus Recreation

The Campus Recreation Manager provides oversight of a Campus Recreation program including program content and offerings, business operations, long range planning, operating procedures, and budget; provides oversight and development of a campus recreation team; and makes recommendations for changes based on program assessments.

• Lead and oversee a Campus Recreation program; design engaging and relevant program offerings including lessons, events, trips, courses, and recreational opportunities; provide vision, direction, and long-range planning for programs
• Provide leadership for a campus recreation team; responsible for oversight of hiring logistics, staff schedules, development and training opportunities, workflow, and staff responsibilities
• Plan, analyze, and administer program budget
• Direct business operations including registration practices and program promotion strategies; draft proposals and reports to provide to stakeholders, directors, and unit leadership
• Develop operating procedures, policies, and action plans to ensure consistency, safety, and compliance; ensure compliance with government and University regulations
• Coordinate efforts between facilities, operations, marketing, and business offices to execute programming logistics
• Secure program resources including equipment, space, and staffing; recommend and select new equipment
• Assess program success; determine performance metrics; recommend improvements; provide leadership with data to represent program success and value

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 – 11
• Minimum – $68,200.00
• MidPoint – $85,200.00
• Maximum – $102,300.00