Assistant Dean, Business and Operations

The University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education (MCE) invites applications for the position of Assistant Dean, Budget and Operations.

The Morgridge College of Education’s vision is to train global leaders who employ innovative and effective approaches to advance learning throughout the lifespan, educational change, and social equity. Our programs prepare ethical, collaborative practitioners who can apply principles to promote learning and development with diverse clients and communities. We are looking for a candidate who can lead efforts to promote MCE and recruit quality graduate level students to our programs. This is a full-time, benefitted position.

University of Denver
DU is the oldest and largest private, independent university in the Rocky Mountain Region, welcoming approximately 5700 undergraduate and 8000 graduate students to campus either in-person or virtually each year. Our students complete a rigorous, comprehensive core curriculum in addition to a deep, hands-on immersion in their technical curricula. DU is a research university with high research activity and an exceptional commitment to its students.

Denver, the Mile-High City, consistently ranks as one of the best places to live in the United States. Denver’s economy is rapidly growing and diversifying, with strengths in the aerospace, healthcare, financial tech, telecommunications, and IT-software sectors. Our region features a dry climate with 300 days of sunshine annually and surprisingly mild winters. The nearby Rocky Mountains provide beautiful views and abundant recreational opportunities year-round. The city of Denver is home to several major league sports teams, diverse neighborhoods, and strong cultural and food scenes. Situated in this vibrant metropolitan community, the University is committed to building and sustaining a culturally diverse faculty, staff, and student body. The Chancellor’s diversity statement can be viewed here: https://www.du.edu/equity. 

Position Summary

This full-time, benefitted position serves as Assistant Dean of Budget and Operations for the Morgridge College of Education and reports to the Dean, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Provost’s Office and Controller’s Office. The Assistant Dean assists the Dean, Assistant Dean of Marketing and Enrollment, Associate Deans, Ricks School for Gifted Children, Fisher Early Learning Center, Research Centers, and Department Chairs in managing the business operations of the College. This individual is responsible for overseeing the processing of the divisions financial transactions, establishing financial policies and procedures; developing the divisions budget; monitoring compliance regarding use of divisional resources; and providing financial tools and research to facilitate planning to ensure financial sustainability and growth. This position will directly supervise the Director of Budget and Operation and the Grants and Contracts Manager. This position will also have 2 indirect reports within the Budget and Finance Office. In addition, the Associate Director of Financial Aid who reports to the Assistant Dean of Enrollment and Marketing, will hold a dotted line reporting relationship to the Assistant Dean of Budget and Operations.

Essential Functions

In addition to following the University of Denver’s policies and procedures, principal responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with the Deans with day to day management of the College, involved in strategic planning for the College.
• Responsible for recommending long-range strategic planning, goals, and growth predictions to the Dean.
• Establish long-range financial objectives to meet strategic goals.
• Responsible for large combined budgets.
• Manage a broad range of business functions for the College including HR recruiting and transactions, grant management, pre-collegiate schools financial management, student financial aid transactions, and accounting functions (budgeting, forecasting, reporting, disbursement and receipts activity, reconciliations, etc.). Interfaces regularly with Budget & Planning, Controller’s Office, Facilities, Univesirty Financial Sercices, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
• Understand, implement, and ensure divisional compliance with all University policies and procedures; develop and implement divisional procedures as needed.
• Work closely with the Deans and MCE leadership team to direct the annual budget process including modeling, developing, forecasting, deploying, and monitoring budget activity.
• Prepare analyses of enrollments, salaries, adjunct needs, faculty course loads, graduate financial aid, departmental salaries and expenses, and other areas. Creatively translate complex data into useful forms for di