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Iowa State University Director Facilities Planning and Management in Ames, Iowa
Position Title:Director Facilities Planning and Management
Job Group:Professional & Scientific
Required Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience
Preferred Qualifications:Demonstrated success in driving cultural transformation to enhance employee engagement and retention
Experience developing and implementing long-term strategies and engaging with various stakeholders to meet the organization's objectives
Strong background in planning and executing complex, deadline-driven initiatives while ensuring compliance to laws and regulations
Demonstrated financial stewardship experience, including preparation, planning, management, analysis, forecasting, and reporting of multi-million-dollar complex budgets
Proven track record of positive results in building, leading, and maintaining collaborative, accountable, transparent, and high-performing teams with goals aligned to results
Extensive experience delivering reliable, customer-focused, and high-quality services that align to customer needs and expectations
Job Description:
Summary
Are you an experienced, creative, and integrity-driven business leader who thrives in a team-focused, customer-service driven, and high-achieving environment? Have you worked to rebuild an organization to improve overall service delivery and collaboration across diverse functions? Iowa State University and the Facilities Planning and Management department seek proactive, people-centric leaders to propel their teams forward in this newly designed position. In partnership with three other peers, a director will oversee a team of approximately 100 employees in professional and scientific and merit positions. This individual will serve as a multifaceted leader supporting a specific area of campus, ensuring the delivery of services in design, construction, shops/trades, grounds care, custodial, capital projects, and other service areas as assigned. The director must bring together a variety of technical and functional groups into a cohesive, unified team in a large-scale, high-performance environment to align and support the university’s mission.
Responsibilities include:
Providing direction and strategic leadership to a diverse team of technical, professional, and service personnel who provide comprehensive services to an area of campus
Collaborating with peers to ensure consistent processes and standardization
Developing and maintaining partnerships with key stakeholders across campus through effective communication and transparency
Creating a high-performing and customer-focused team
Providing leadership, strategy, oversight, and direct management of team
Shaping the team to reinforce collaboration, accountability, and responsibility
Creating a climate that values and recognizes initiative, innovation, service excellence, continuous learning, stewardship, and the achievement of results
Providing seamless delivery of highly reliable, customer-oriented, and collaborative services with a focus on effective and efficient operations
Overseeing and managing a budget, expenses, and financial forecasts to ensure optimal allocation of resources and financial health
Developing strategies to maximize financial efficiency and profitability, while maintaining compliance with financial regulations and standards
Overseeing the operational management of the services comprised of construction, shops/trades, design, grounds care, custodial, capital projects, and other services
Cultivating highly skilled staff and improving internal processes within available budgets to deliver outcomes that support the university’s mission
To be successful in this important leadership role, you will demonstrate strengths in collaboration, strategy, relationship building, and dynamic leadership across a variety of units, functions, and staff. You will be a creative problem solver, financial steward, effective communicator, and a change management leader who will work to improve operational efficiencies, increase the use of analytics, and enhance team performance. You will lead efforts to build effective formal and informal communication channels with customers, university departments, and college administration that are integral to the success of services in your campus area.
Level Guidelines• May provide input into the strategic planning process• Operationalizes annual goals and objectives from strategic plan with department(s) to develop annual departmental objective and action plans• Develops and recommends institution policy within area of functional or operational expertise• Scope of influence may be a function, a large sub function, or multiple sub functions• Manages staff and sets priorities for department(s)• Typically has sufficient staff to have multiple Managers or Supervisors as direct reports• Has full management responsibility for direct reports, specifically the authority to hire, fire, and counsel• Understands key drivers of financial performance for operational areas• Provides substantial input to the budgeting process• Responsible for budgetary decisions according to guidelines within functional area• Recommends financial decisions that impact area of responsibility
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an on-going basis without sponsorship.
Appointment Type:Regular
Number of Months Employed Per Year:12 Month Work Period
Time Type:Full time
Pay Grade:PS813
Application Instructions:
To apply for this position, please click on “Apply” and complete the Employment Application. Please be prepared to enter or attach the following:1) Resume/Curriculum Vitae2) Letter of Application/Cover Letter
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. To receive full consideration, applications should be received by June 28, 2024.
If you have questions regarding this application process, please email employment@iastate.edu or call 515-294-4800 or Toll Free: 1-877-477-7485.Why Choose ISU?Iowa State Employees enjoy comprehensive health and work-life benefits, including medical and dental; as well as:• Retirement benefits including defined benefit and defined contribution plans• Generous vacation, holiday and sick time and leave plans• Onsite childcare (Ames, Iowa)• Life insurance and long-term disability• Flexible Spending Accounts• Various voluntary benefits and discounts• Employee Assistance Program• Wellbeing program
Original Posting Date: June 14, 2024
Posting Close Date:
Job Requisition Number:R14845
By focusing on the future and providing the best student experience possible, Iowa State attracts students and faculty who want to make a difference. With a comprehensive land-grant mission of education, research, extension and outreach, we produce scholars whose ideas change the world. And through Innovate at Iowa State , we provide innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities for students of all backgrounds. Located just 30 minutes north of Des Moines, the city of Ames was recently named one of the Top 10 cities in the U.S. for campus life and career opportunities.
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