University of Houston
Program Director 2 - Strategic Initiatives
🇺🇸 Houston, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ July 14th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Oversees a large department, program, or center including staff management and personnel issue resolution.
- Manages budget planning, grant oversight, and strategic planning to meet organizational goals.
- Implements new programs and monitors ongoing departmental activities, reviewing policies and improving processes.
- Represents the department or center to internal and external constituents.
- Requires a four-year degree or equivalent specialized training related to the discipline.
- Requires a minimum of five years of directly related job experience; education may be substituted for experience and vice versa.
- Works within the Division of Advancement and Alumni supporting donor and alumni engagement and university initiatives.
- Salary is commensurate with experience and education.
- Position is full-time and security sensitive, requiring a criminal history check.
- No specific certifications or licenses required.
Program Director 2 - Strategic Initiatives Full Description
| Department: Strategic Initiatives
| Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
| Description: Internal Candidates Only
Responsible for the operations of a large program or center at the university. Oversees staff, budgets, and projects.
1. Oversees a large department, program or center.
2. Manages budget and engages in strategic planning to ensure all goals are met.
3. Hires and directs the activities of staff.
4. Resolves personnel issues as they arise.
5. Engages in budget-planning, grant oversight, and policy development.
6. Implements new programs and projects and monitors ongoing activities of department or center.
7. Reviews department policies and processes and implements improvements as needed.
8. Represents department or center to internal and external constituents.
9. Performs other job-related duties as required.
MQ: Education: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4-year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Experience: Requires a minimum of five (5) years of directly job-related experience.
Certification/Licensing: None.
Additional Job Posting Information:
- Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience.
- Department is willing to accept experience in lieu of education.
| All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.
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