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Director Facilities Planning and Management Ames
Posted: 6/21/24
Deadline: 7/14/24
Reference Number: R14845
About This Organization Job Duties Summary
Are you an experienced, creative, and integrity-driven business leader who thrives in a team-focused, customer-service driven, and high-achieving environment? Have you worked to rebuild an organization to improve overall service delivery and collaboration across diverse functions? Iowa State University and the Facilities Planning and Management department seek proactive, people-centric leaders to propel their teams forward in this newly designed position. In partnership with three other peers, a director will oversee a team of approximately 100 employees in professional and scientific and merit positions. This individual will serve as a multifaceted leader supporting a specific area of campus, ensuring the delivery of services in design, construction, shops/trades, grounds care, custodial, capital projects, and other service areas as assigned. The director must bring together a variety of technical and functional groups into a cohesive, unified team in a large-scale, high-performance environment to align and support the university's mission.
Responsibilities include:
Providing direction and strategic leadership to a diverse team of technical, professional, and service personnel who provide comprehensive services to an area of campus
Collaborating with peers to ensure consistent processes and standardization
Developing and maintaining partnerships with key stakeholders across campus through effective communication and transparency
Creating a high-performing and customer-focused team
Providing leadership, strategy, oversight, and direct management of team
Shaping the team to reinforce collaboration, accountability, and responsibility
Creating a climate that values and recognizes initiative, innovation, service excellence, continuous learning, stewardship, and the achievement of results
Providing seamless delivery of highly reliable, customer-oriented, and collaborative services with a focus on effective and efficient operations
Overseeing and managing a budget, expenses, and financial forecasts to ensure optimal allocation of resources and financial health
Developing strategies to maximize financial efficiency and profitability, while maintaining compliance with financial regulations and standards
Overseeing the operational management of the services comprised of construction, shops/trades, design, grounds care, custodial, capital projects, and other services
Cultivating highly skilled staff and improving internal processes within available budgets to deliver outcomes that support the university's mission
To be successful in this important leadership role, you will demonstrate strengths in collaboration, strategy, relationship building, and dynamic leadership across a variety of units, functions, and staff. You will be a creative problem solver, financial steward, effective communicator, and a change management leader who will work to improve operational efficiencies, increase the use of analytics, and enhance team performance. You will lead efforts to build effective formal and informal communication channels with customers, university departments, and college administration that are integral to the success of services in your campus area.
Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree and 8 years of related experience
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