School Administrative Officer

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information
The Woodruff School graduates high caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of todays technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future.

With approximately 3,000 students, 100 faculty members, and 80 staff members, the Woodruff School is one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 10 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education. Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.

Perform a wide variety of duties in direct support of the Chair's strategic and administrative activities and responsibilities for the School. Coordinate and support existing and new programs and partnerships across Georgia Institute of Technology as well as external entities. Lead and coordinate Business Operations including financial, management, IT Services, HR Services, and Communications/Marketing for the School. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing performance, providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.This position will interact on a regular basis with: Deans, Chairs, faculty, GT leadership. This position typically will advise and counsel: Deans, Chairs, faculty, GT leadership. This position will supervise: Office administrative staff.

Job Duty 1 -
Lead and coordinate Business Operations, IT Services, HR Services, and Communications/Marketing.

Job Duty 2 -
Develop and manage a process for tracking and supporting the decisions that come before the Chair and the Chair's leadership team. This includes setting a timetable for making decisions, ensuring necessary data and analysis are prepared and reviewed by relevant stakeholders and all relevant parties have provided input.

Job Duty 3 -
Partner with the School's leadership team to direct, organize, and monitor routine and strategic financial and administrative functions and performance. Verify major initiatives support the goals and mission as defined in the strategic plan.

Job Duty 4 -
Serve as Project Manager for key initiatives and projects.

Job Duty 5 -
Represent and/or accompany the Chair as requested. Serves as key staff member for all committees over which the Chair presides.

Job Duty 6 -
Coordinate or compose the writing, editing and preparation of drafts and final versions of correspondence, reports, presentations, speeches, and articles needed to support the Chair.

Job Duty 7 -
Provide overall management and supervision of calendar for Chair. This includes addressing issues in advance of meetings that require decisions and/or resource commitments.

Job Duty 8 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance or related area or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Overnight travel requdministrativeed for project delivery; flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours (due to client shift schedules, project requdministrativeements).

Required Experience
Six to seven years of job related experience

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

SKILLS
This job requires an advanced level of knowledge of administrative management practices within the executive management level of higher education. Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills as well as strong analytical and research skills are required.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Salary range: $110,000.00-$142,00.00

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job grade: A12

This is a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening