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The Organizational Development Manager leads the University’s operational excellence team. This position provides oversight of project management, people analytics, and business analysis functions to ensure that strategic and operational initiatives are completed efficiently and effectively in support of the organization.

• Partner with HR leadership to identify organizational priorities and ensure execution of initiatives
• Implement frameworks and standardized processes based on operational excellence best practices that support the successful execution of strategic and operational initiatives
• Manage large, complex HR projects that improve the customer experience, increase efficiency, and improve effectiveness
• Work with unit leadership to execute, review, and improve upon established methods
• Provide leadership with project updates and progress reports
• Work with University partners to assist with prioritization, resource allocation, and execution of University initiatives that require HR resources; serve as a subject matter expert on University-wide initiatives
• Provide consultation to help analyze problems, identify gaps, and recommend solutions
• Provide day-to-day management and leadership of the Operational Excellence team
• Champion and promote the value of operational excellence work
• Coach, mentor, and support HR in understanding project management, data analytics, and business process improvement processes

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 – 16
• Minimum – $123,200.00
• MidPoint – $157,100.00
• Maximum – $191,000.00