Job No. 154539
- Job Title:
- PEOPLE Program Director
- Employer:
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location:
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Madison , WI
- Posting Date:
- 06-Jan-2025
- Description:
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Job Summary:
The Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) is a premier college readiness and college success program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The PEOPLE Program is seeking an individual to fulfill the role of Director. The Director will lead the strategic vision and will oversee all aspects of program implementation for college readiness and college success initiatives offered by the program across three distinct units: Madison Precollege, Milwaukee Precollege, and The College Success Center. Responsibilities of this role include providing direct program oversight, budget management, personnel supervision, policy development and compliance, and actively nurturing partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. The Director of PEOPLE works closely with 3 Associate Directors who are at the forefront of each of the 3 PEOPLE's program units. The Director sets the vision for a team of 25 full-time staff who support the educational aspirations of first generation and low-income students with the goal of college attainment and degree completion. The PEOPLE program is housed in the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA). The director position reports to the Assistant Vice Provost for Student Engagement and Scholarship Programs.
About the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA)
Under the direction of the Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence, the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA) supports the mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it works to create a diverse, inclusive, and excellent learning and work environment for all students, faculty, staff, alumni, and partners at the university. The DDEEA is comprised of administrative, education, scholarship, and service programs whose work overlaps with the core values of community, inclusion, organizational excellence, transparency, and accountability. The DDEEA collaborates, leads, and consults in efforts to seed new initiatives and coordinate numerous institutional efforts to support, guide, and promote these priorities.
About the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE)
The Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) serves over 1,200 students as they move from eighth grade to college graduation, offering innovative programming to support career exploration and self-management skills while building knowledge through experiential learning. Our programming is offered in three distinct units: Madison Precollege, Milwaukee Precollege, and The College Success Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the academic year, our precollege team advises Wisconsin students in Madison and Milwaukee public high schools, creating new pathways to higher education for low-income, potential first-generation families. During the summer, our precollege team hosts our high school students in a robust residential program on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, offering students an opportunity to experience college life and build community in their cohorts, fully supported by our dedicated staff. Our precollege students who gain admission into UW-Madison become PEOPLE College Scholars. Our college team offers one-on-one high-touch advising services, unique programming created specifically for our student population, and other high impact practices to foster student success. We seek passionate individuals who want to collaborate with our energetic precollege and college teams to continue our success as UW-Madison's leading college access program.
Job Summary Detail:
Overall Program Oversight and Strategic Direction
1. Provide strategic oversight for precollege enrichment and college success units to ensure alignment of institutional and divisional priorities.
2. Supports the successful execution and delivery of services to include college readiness, academic enrichment, residential summer programs, college advising, and college student support services.
3. Develops the strategy and plan to assess and evaluate program framework for effectiveness and impact on meeting targeted key performance indicators.
4. Oversees the development of documentation describing program services, expectations, policies, procedures, and program philosophy.
5. Works with staff to maintain accurate and relevant program internal information (e.g., handbooks, manuals, policies, program literature) and public facing program communications (e.g. advertising, newsletters, social media)
6. Produces annual performance reports for the DDEEA and University as requested, chronicling organizational success.
7. Collaborate and coordinate efforts with OSDPR and PEOPLE's Data & Assessment Specialist to oversee ongoing program assessment and identify opportunities for improvement, allocating staff and financial resources based on defined strategic priorities.
Budget Oversight and Management
1. Responsible for unit-level budget planning, allocation, forecast, and reconciles expenses of multi-million-dollar mixed funding source budget (state dollars, grants, foundation funds, and donations).
2. Ensures compliance with federal and state regulations in addition to campus and UW-system policies and procedures, ensuring expenditures are consistent with the organization's and division's financial priorities and strategies.
Personnel Management and Supervision
1. Exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of 5.0 FTEs (i.e., 3 Associate Directors)
2. Determines assignments to maximize short- and long-term results and ensures that staff (25 FTE) have current position descriptions and are given frequent feedback and coaching in their performance as well as annual performance evaluations.
3. Works closely with program staff and leadership to coordinate the hiring and supervision of temporary and/or part time employees serving the program through the entire academic year and summer term (e.g., student, tutors, instructors, summer residential staff, etc.)
4. Creates and maintains an environment where high morale, cooperation, and employee satisfaction may be achieved in a dynamic and demanding academic environment, effectively supervising staff to achieve strategic priorities
5. Develop, promote, and facilitate staff training programs to ensure compliance with youth protection, FERPA, Clery Act, and Title IX policies.
Policy Development and Oversight
1. Work closely with DDEEA and University staff to develop and ensure program policies, procedures, and staffing are in alignment with appropriate federal, state, and institutional laws.
2. Responsible for effective communication, training, and facilitation of changes in policies and procedures related to youth and minor protection policies, youth and pre-college programming, FERPA, Clery Act and Title IX.
Partnership Development and Fundraising
1. Responsible for building, sustaining, and expanding partnerships among key constituencies who support academic programming for PEOPLE Scholars, including but not limited to: UW-Campus, local school systems, and institutional and private entities who support academic programming.
2. Work closely with the Assistant Vice Provost and Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association to execute strategic development opportunities to strengthen alumni and donor engagement to meet annual fundraising goals.
3. Serve on grant writing teams and provide program management and oversight of grant deliverables to include program implementation, reporting, and financial management.
- Contact information:
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison, WI 53706
- United States
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