Assistant to the Vice President of Administration & Finance

· Manage high priority projects supporting the Vice President’s goals to ensure progress against objectives, established milestones, and measurement criteria. Coordinate the Vice President’s efforts with internal and community stakeholders. Represent the Vice President where appropriate.

· Create and transform processes, financial data and organizational concepts into communication tools to support the Division’s financial and operational priorities for the benefit of the College. Materials and collateral, produced in close coordination with College Communications, will be used by the Vice President and senior campus leadership for stakeholder outreach efforts in support of the College’s strategic goals.

· Direct management reporting and analysis for the Division of Administration and Finance and work with the departments making up the Division to ensure timely, regular, informative analysis and reporting of Division activities.

· Assist the Vice President in the analysis and preparation of the Division’s annual operating budget and other financial analysis as required.

· Effectively articulate the vision, mission, and values of the College.

· Support the Vice President as needed in a wide range of tasks associated with running the Division.

· Maintain confidentiality and perform a wide range of duties that require teamwork, sensitivity, discretion, judgment, and flexibility.

· Demonstrated ability to analyze, synthesize and distill financial models to inform long range decision making.

· Demonstrated understanding of higher education institutions and their institutional and administrative processes.

· Demonstrated ability to analyze, summarize and translate complex financial and organizational data and concepts and to communicate them to both lay and expert audiences.

· Demonstrated ability to develop talking points, prepare visually engaging materials, and use data visualization software for executive leadership in a deadline-oriented environment.

· Demonstrated experience with just-in-time professional-quality document development.

· Demonstrated experience using desktop publishing tools, such as Adobe Illustrator or InDesign.

· Demonstrated experience overseeing, producing and managing content for web, social media and external media audiences.

· Demonstrated proficiency with visual communications and presentation tools, such as Keynote.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

 

Experience:

· Experience with finance and accounting and the demonstrated ability to develop dynamic variable-driven financial models in Excel.

· Strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills as well as proficient written communication skills.

· Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations and constituencies;

· Proven track record of presentation and editing skills;

· Demonstrated track record of bringing strategic projects to successful completion using formal project management techniques;

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint demonstrated experience in process analysis and redesign, including in Visio or similar process flow analysis software.