Associate Director, Academics, Arts & Administration

Job Posting Title:

Associate Director, Academics, Arts & Administration

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Hiring Department:

Campus Construction

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking to fill the Associate Director for Academic, Arts and Administration Project Group within the Planning, Design and Construction Department.  Reporting to the Director for Project Management, the Associate Director will will lead two client-focused teams responsible for design and construction management services for higher education projects for all UT Austin campuses.  Group is comprised of 15 project managers, having responsibility for both major and minor capital projects.   Associate Director can expect to have responsibility for 200-300 projects valued at $400-600 million. Currently, the University of Texas at Austin has capital projects in excess of $2 billion in planning, design and construction.

The Associate Director will work closely with University leadership, campus business units, and others to support an integrated approach to design and construction that ensures excellence within specific functional areas and across the institution. Position must promote and maintain positive client relationships within the Academic, Arts and Administrative Colleges, Schools and Units across campus to ensure successful execution of capital projects. Incumbent must engage in proactive coordination and collaboration between departments responsible for planning, real estate management, sustainability, utilities and energy management, facilities maintenance, and operations.

You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will make a difference in the lives of students, staff, and faculty, thereby enhancing the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin.

UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package.  For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards 

Purpose

Provide leadership, strategy, oversight and operational management of a client-focused group of project managers and other professionals executing a large program of design and construction projects for higher education clients for all UT Austin campuses.

Responsibilities

• Lead team of project management professionals providing design and construction management services for higher education projects for all UT Austin campuses. Mentor, guide and direct personnel to achieve maximum success in meeting clients' needs. Conduct recruitment, selection, orientation, training, coaching and evaluation of project management staff.  Provide regular executive-level communications with Director, PDC Leadership and clients for project activities, from schematic design through construction.
• Serve alongside PM to represent the PDC organization to client during project design and construction phases.  Provide engaging client leadership through relationship building and understanding clients' business and needs. Lead team to work effectively to meet  clients' identified business goals and outcomes. Assign team members to fit client expectations and required outcomes.
• Use key performance indicators to measure and improve performance.  Provide regular updates to PDC Leadership on project performance, in terms of cost, scope and schedule.  Monitor project budgets and schedules to ensure compliance with approved budget and project goals. Monitor and manage detailed budget formats to track expenditures in collaboration with other Financial and Administrative Services units. Review and approve project expenditures for consultant services, service contracts, construction pay applications, and Owner - provided technical services within authority limits.
• Monitor and evaluate performance of all assigned Project Managers (PM) alongside the Team Leads (TL).  Provide knowledge, skills and expertise for assigned project type. Serve as a subject matter expert for project management within PDC. With oversight from the  Director, continuously review organization structure, work processes and work procedures and adjust as needed to provide the most efficient and effective service delivery.
• Plan, organize and direct