Department: Academic Affairs - 30000

Brief Summary of Work for this position:

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

• A Master's degree in combination with at least 2 years of advanced level business administration experience OR Master's Degree in combination with at least 4 years of progressively responsible experience in business administration.
• Alternative Education & Experience accepted: A Bachelor's degree in combination with at least 3 years of advanced business administration experience OR Bachelor's Degree in combination with at least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in business administration.

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills & Experience :

• Ability to engage with stakeholders and lead through influence without authority in order to achieve common goals.
• Ability to provide budgeting and planning recommendations and modeling based on established goals and constraints.
• Ability to anticipate the needs and requirements of senior leadership to proactivity prepare recommendations, information and solutions.
• Ability to proactively solve problems and identify solutions for routine and non-routine challenges.
• Ability to utilize advanced Microsoft Excel functionality in order to track, analyze, and report on complex data (including financial, personnel, and program).
• Ability to explain complex financial information to stakeholders whose core competency is not financial.
• Knowledge and ability to utilize an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software; additional preference given to candidates with Banner ERP experience.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and fund accounting.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills that allow for the establishment of solid working relationships.
• Intermediate to advanced technical skills to use a variety of software and systems (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Zoom, SharePoint, Forms, Power Automate, DocuSign, etc.).
• Ability to translate polices, laws, and institutional practices into local business processes that support specific unit needs.
• Experience in business administration in public higher education.

Required Certifications or Licensure:

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

About The University of North Carolina at Wilmington

The University of North Carolina Wilmington, the state’s coastal university, is dedicated to the integration of teaching, mentoring, research and service. Widely acknowledged for its world-class faculty and staff and continuously recognized at a national level for scholarly excellence and affordability, UNCW offers a powerful academic experience that stimulates creative inquiry and critical thinking and a community rich in diversity, inclusion and global perspectives.A public institution with nearly 18,000 students, UNCW offers a full range of baccalaureate- and graduate-level programs, as well as doctoral degrees in educational leadership, marine biology, nursing practice and psychology; and many distance learning options, including clinical research, an accelerated RN-to-BSN program, an Executive M.B.A. program structured for working professionals, and the nation’s only bachelor’s degree program focused on coastal engineering.The university’s efforts to advance research and scholarly activities have earned UNCW the elevated designation of “Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity” institution (R2 University) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.UNCW has been part of the University of North Carolina System since 1969.

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