Director of Operations
Rutgers University
Reporting to the Vice Chancellor of Student Academic Success, the Director of Operations is a vital Division of Student Academic Success (SAS) senior team member and collaborates with various Rutgers Camden stakeholders to lead, facilitate, and manage an innovative student success agenda. The incumbent supports the Division’s overall mission, strategic plan implementation and goals, grant writing and serves as an initiator, liaison, and driver for projects and initiatives central to student success and the College’s overall commitment to excellence in serving and supporting a diverse student body.
The director of operations will oversee all administrative management, project management, and supervision of the daily operations for the student academic success division. This position will organize, track, and ensures accurate and timely processing of requests and actions of all direct reports to the Vice Chancellor of SAS. The Director requires outstanding organizational, communication, and leadership skills and an ability to develop innovative solutions that allow the Division leadership and staff to achieve strategic goals, compliance, and execution of duties within the Division and campus as needed. This position will also be responsible for oversight in managing complex situations and a myriad of division and campus-wide programming. The director of operations will work closely with Division leadership and senior staff to strategize and develop policies, plans and systems that will allow the Division to run efficiently and effectively.
The incumbent works independently with broadly defined work objectives and limited review of overall results. Performs professional work that requires specialized knowledge and confidentiality in one or more fields of management/administration, student retention, student success strategies, event planning and management, and a solid understanding, use, and application of concepts, theories, principles, practices, regulations, terminology, and applied bases in area of specialization.
This position must be able to handle complex, high-level multitasking with professionalism and efficiency. They must be able to handle highly confidential information and work professionally with faculty, staff, and students.