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Position Vacancy ID: 84542
Title: ACADEMIC DEPT MANAGER

General (Permissive) Transfer and Reinstatement Opportunites are available to all State classified civil service employees who have the ability to demote or reinstate into the stated vacancies. To determine eligibility for a position, please review OSER's Counterpart Pay Range Designations policy bulletin link below. You may also want to review other policy bulletins at OSER by using the OSER Bulletin link. Or, call or email the contact person on each vacancy listing.

Working Title:ACADEMIC DEPT MANAGER
FTE:1
Schedule - Range:81-03

Title Specifications

Job Summary:The Political Science Department is a large academic department in the College of Letters & Science having expenditures in 2012 in excess of $7.0 million. This position provides the administrative leadership for the Department. The department has a staff consisting of approximately 40 faculty, 6 classified staff members, 5 academic staff, and 100 graduate student employees working as teaching assistants, lecturers and project assistants.

This position serves as Department Administrator for the Department of Political Science, providing professional administrative leadership for the Department under the general guidelines defined by the faculty. Departmental leadership is executed by the Department Chair and Department Administrator, with the Chair representing faculty decisions and the Administrator executing those decisions in the context of University, State and Federal policy. In general terms, this position assures that the needs of the Department are served and manages the department's administrative activities which include overall department operations, staff supervision, financial administration, personnel administration, grant administration, facilities management, and liaison with relevant campus offices. This is a complex position.




Requirements:A Criminal Background Check Will Be Conducted

Additional
Requirements:
The application information below is only for applicants eligible to apply as a transfer, reinstatement or demotion candidate.

To ensure consideration please submit a letter of interest and resume to John Coleman at coleman@polisci.wisc.edu by 6/28/12.

Schedule
Comment:
7:45 - 4:30 M-F. Some flexibility may be negotiated.
 
Organization:COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE - POLITICAL SCIENCE
 
Contact Name:John Coleman
Contact Phone:608-263-1793
Contact Email:coleman@polisci.wisc.edu
Contact TTY Phone:711- -
 
Job Location
Address:
NORTH HALL Room: 110B
 1050 BASCOM MALL
 MADISON, WI 53706-1316

The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.