Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitleOperations Director (B)
Job CodeAD054
Scaled JobYes
Salary Grade27
Family NameAdministration
Sub Family NameAdministrative Services
Job Overview
Job SummaryServes as a senior advisor to divisional or executive leadership and represents leadership as needed. Coordinates administrative, operational, and financial administration of relevant units on behalf of divisional or executive leadership. Provides project management and management of strategic initiatives, serves as the coordinator for internal communications, and oversees the development of communications strategies and applications.
Job Responsibilities
  • Serves as an insightful senior advisor to divisional or executive leadership and represents leadership with integrity as needed in all divisional matters. Serves as a liaison to internal constituent and governance groups
  • Coordinates across all functions including administrative, operational, financial, curriculum, academic, and student services of administrative units on behalf of divisional or executive leadership
  • Coordinates daily staff activities and work for divisional or executive leadership
  • Manages internal communications and oversees the development of communication strategies and applications
  • Manages projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of divisional or executive leadership
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
Additional Information
Employee CategoryLimited (LI)
Supervision RequiredYes
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Bachelor's Degree - Preferred Minimum
FLSA Threshold Exemption

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.