(512) 232-5301
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Serve as the primary faculty affairs contact for the department. Directs, manages and oversees portfolios for faculty promotion and tenure review, post-tenure, third-year and annual merit reviews. Assists with faculty searches and new faculty onboarding. Manages all aspects of new and continuing faculty appointments. Assists Chair with faculty nominations for awards and research assignments, faculty leave requests and other faculty affairs. Maintains faculty files.
Provide Human Resources support to the department by advising department employees in HR functional areas such as employee benefits, performance management, recruitment (to include researching job codes and salary analysis) and compliance.
- Create and manage Theatre and Dance employee appointments, job assignments, recruitments, and reclassifications in Workday. Utilizes standard operating procedures for managing timekeeping. Supervises other staff who assist in these areas.
- Provide strategic planning and project management support of Chair's initiatives and priorities, including facilities improvement and expansion, program development, and production season enhancement including scheduling, marketing and publicity.
- Provide administrative support for Theatre and Dance Budget Council, Executive Council, and Area Heads.
Oversee daily operations in the main administrative office.
- Supervise five staff members: Assistant Operations Manager (vacant), Course Scheduler (Clarissa Smith), Administrative Assistant and ABT Summer Intensive Coordinator (Tori Marshall), Administrative Associate (Averil Houston), and Communications Coordinator (Megan Bommarito). Schedules, organizes and conducts regular meetings with Theatre and Dance staff.