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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:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00