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Job Summary/Basic Function:
Within the Office of the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and VicePresident for Finance and Operations, the primary purpose of thisposition is to efficiently manage and sustain the overall Next FrontierProgram (\"NFP\") implementation.
NFP is a multi-year initiative, already in-progress, to establish andimplement a strategy for a data-empowered culture at Boise StateUniversity to enable timely, accurate, accessible, and readilyvisualizable data and analytics for the campus community.
The person in this role will build key collaborations across Divisionsof the university in addition to working closely with the Next FrontierCommittee which includes members from various divisions in the Academicand Operations areas. The position lives outside of the existingdata/analytical units by design and is expected to coordinate acrossthese units as well as across Divisions of the university.
Essential Functions:
Foster partnerships, mutually beneficial relationships, and trustwith the campus community
broadly, with special emphasis on customer service and end users\'needs;
Through engagement with and accountability to all executiveleadership and other campus
stakeholders, identify and address campus-wide analytical andoperational reporting needs
when developing solutions;
Work closely with the Information Technology Planning Committee\'s(ITPC) Decision
Support Subcommittee - in particular the Next Frontier Committeeincluding to re-
envision its roles and responsibilities with respect to NFP and toenable the RCM budget
modernization process;
Work closely with the Division of Finance and Operations (includingthe Office of
Information Technology), Division of Academic Affairs (including theOffice of the Provost
and Institutional Effectiveness), Division of Research and EconomicDevelopment, and
Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management on establishedhigh-priority needs.
Collaboratively develop and implement NFP goals, objectives,strategies, tactics, metrics,
governance, and standards;
Conduct regular reviews and assessments to ensure that NFP\'s(including multiple related
projects\') deliverables are progressing on-time and according toquality benchmarks;
Maintain accurate and current NFP documentation, including projectplans, decisions,
campus engagement records, risk registers, and issue logs;
Optimize resource utilization, human and otherwise, and makeadjustments as needed to
meet changing NFP demands;
Skillfully manage the NFP budget overall and across individualprojects, and promptly
address issues as they arise;
Generate NFP status reports (e.g., program and budget), dashboards,and presentations for
executive leadership and other campus stakeholders; and
Establish and maintain regular campus-wide communications, includingbuilding and
maintaining an internal ebsite with updated news and statuses,emails to the campus
community, and other open hours, presentations, and social mediaposts, etc., as may be
appropriate from time to time.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Exceptional leadership, collaboration, communication, andorganizational skills to
successfully address campus-wide operational and analyticalreporting needs;
Strategic thinking and the ability to align NFP priorities with theuniversity\'s goals;
Ability to engage stakeholders from multiple divisions andelicit/implement requirements;
Ability to communicate and explain complex topics in layperson\'sterms to ensure that
campus stakeholders remain informed and engaged;
Ability to develop high-quality solutions by leveragingcross-functional teams to validate
information and test out the user experience;
Ability to calmly handle multiple, changing priorities and competingdeadlines;
Strong knowledge of project management, business process design,reengineering, and
change management;
Actively listens and employs empathy to understand stakeholders andtheir needs;
Proficient risk management, problem-solving, and conflict resolutionskills;
Successful working independently and as part of a team; and
A self-starter, driven by a standard of excellence.
Minimum
Qualifications:
Bachelor\'s degree and 5 years of experience,