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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:

– 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