Associate Vice President - Athletics Director

Position Category: Executive

Summary:
The Associate Vice President - Athletics Director (AD) is responsible for the strategic leadership, development, and operational management of UVU's competitive intercollegiate athletics program. The AD provides visionary leadership and leads strategic planning; maintains an athletics program that is committed to the university's mission, values, and strategic priorities; works with UVU's Division of Institutional Advancement to raise funds for the athletic department and programs; administers the overall athletic budget; recruits, makes hiring and firing decisions, supervises, and evaluates coaches and athletic department staff; and ensures compliance with all university, NCAA, and conference policies, rules, and regulations. UVU's athletics program has evolved in significant and positive ways; the Athletics Director builds on recent achievements in advancing the future success of the programs, coaches and student-athletes. The Athletics Director reports directly to the Vice President, Finance and Administration, with a dotted line to the university president involving reporting and coordination through regular, direct communication.

Required Qualifications:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a masters degree or professional or other advanced degree in a closely-related field and at least five years of professional administrative/supervisory work experience in collegiate athletics, or bachelors degree in a closely-related field and at least eight years of professional administrative/supervisory work experience in collegiate athletics.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of rules and regulations governing NCAA intercollegiate athletics.
• Knowledge of recruiting practices and hiring policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of facilities management practices and procedures.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Skills in program and process planning, assessment, and improvement including implementing new strategies and procedures.
• Demonstrated skill in public relations and management principles and practices.
• Skills in employee development and performance management and evaluation.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated skills as a collaborative leader with the ability to generate commitment to achieve goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, hire, supervise, evaluate, and train coaches and staff, and to build and sustain competitive sports teams.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and schedule athletic events and activities.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and secure resources through private donors and organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to administer a large, complex budget through sound fiscal management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and accomplish goals and achieve timely and high-quality results.
• Ability to create marketing and public relations initiatives to promote UVU athletics.

Preferred Qualifications:
Distinguished record of accomplishment as an athletics director or associate or assistant athletics director. Experience working with NCAA regulations. Experience coaching a collegiate or professional athletic team.
Demonstrated success in advancing student academic and athletic excellence. Demonstrated success in cultivating donors, excellent people management and communications skills.

Physical Requirements:
Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
No or very limited physical effort required.
No or very limited exposure to physical risk.

Benefits Summary:
UVU offers an excellent benefits package which includes a generous leave policy, 12 paid holidays, affordable medical and dental insurance options, life and AD&D insurance, tuition waiver (undergraduate resident) for employee and dependents and substantial employer contribution to a retirement plan.

FLSA: Exempt

Pay Range: DOQ

Advertisement Number: STA144618 Athletics Staff
Open Date: 02/14/2019
Review Start Date: 03/15/2019
Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes

Special Instructions to Applicant: Priority consideration will be given to those applicants who apply on or before the Review Start Date." This job advertisement may close at any time after the review date.Please list a minimum of three business references. References may be contacted at some point during the screening and selection process for a letter of recommendation.

To apply, visit: https://www.uvu.jobs/postings/11405

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