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Job Description

***Collaborative Project with Great Basin College***

Great Basin College (GBC) seeks a strategic, collaborative leader for the Executive Director, Finance and Administration position. The Executive Director, Finance and Administration is responsible for directing, planning, managing, and overseeing the activities and operations of GBC’s budget, accounting, grants, and business operations services.

This position reports to the College President while maintaining strong collaborations with administrative counterparts at the University of Nevada, Reno divisions. The position will be based in Elko, with regular travel to the UNR Campus in Reno.

The College engages in many shared service initiatives with the University of Nevada, Reno, covering most finance and administrative areas. The Executive Director will be the liaison and point of contact for business shared service activities, ensuring coordination with UNR business operations.

The Executive Director manages the preparation, ensures accurate college-wide operational and personnel budgets, and provides activities that function efficiently and comply with policies and procedures. The Executive Director manages a team and works to create a cohesive and diverse team, ensures operational effectiveness across functional areas, and helps shape the college culture.


Responsibilities

Oversee and participate in the development, preparation, coordination, and presentation of the College budget, capital improvement budget, and internal fiscal control measures; develop and present financial forecasts and historical information; monitor operation expenses; exercise fiscal control

Collaborate with UNR Planning, Budget and Analysis budget office during the budget development process, manage and prioritize requests for changes to department resource allocations and communicate critical information to campus and other stakeholders

Synthesize and analyze financial information and trends, develop and maintain multi-year financial planning model for College funds and provide alternatives to inform effective decision-making and planning

Prepare and support a long-range strategic fiscal plan for the College

Ensure that all fiscal reports are completed timely and accurately

Oversee the daily monitoring/reconciliation of College accounts; ensure fiscal compliance with all regulations

Collaborate with human resources for salary budget planning

Oversee the submission and monitoring of special course fee account requests prior to submission to Planning, Budget & Analysis

Ensure compliance with restrictions on gift, endowed and grant funds

Determine the need for services, develop contract specifications, administer contracts, ensure contract compliance, and review performance of work

Analyze, identify and implement business process efficiencies, including development and implementation of internal processes and procedures to ensure compliance

Liaison and point of contact for business shared service activities, ensuring coordination with UNR business operations

Provide strategic operational, fiscal, grant management, guidance to College administrators

Develop a consistent, rigorous and transparent process to evaluate requests for operational resources, priority setting and strategically allocate resources across the organization

Create and implement procedures which promote and sustain effective and efficient operations

Meets regularly with administrators to ensure alignment and integration that advances strategic priorities of the College

Serve as a liaison with administrative counterparts for campus partners (Facilities, Safety, Security, etc.)

Provide input for accreditation processes

Represent College on UNR shared service teams

Directly supervise and manage financial and grants and contract administration

Maintains an effective and cohesive organizational structure to accomplish the organization’s objectives; recruits, trains, leads, develops, mentors direct reports, and evaluates their performance

Prioritize inclusivity, diversity and equity in executing key responsibilities

Participate in college and system-wide committees as appropriate.

Occasional travel throughout the state with possible overnight stays, with or without accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Act

Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

Six years of related experience

Leadership in a related environment to include fiscal planning, policy formation, managing resource allocations, budget preparation and employee management

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university

Prior work experience within a higher education environment

Compensation

Annual salary range is $80,000 - $100,000 commensurate with experience and education.