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The Executive Director serves as a key member of the Institute for Public Service (IPS) leadership team responsible for providing support, direction and guidance to achieve the goals of the Tennessee Language Center (TLC). Working with the IPS Vice President and other stakeholders, the Executive Director plays a critical role in advancing the goals of TLC throughout the university and the state of Tennessee. The Executive Director provides visionary leadership, sets strategic goals, and develops plans to achieve the organization's mission and objectives, which include market expansion, service offerings and revenue growth. This is critical to the creation, maintenance and revision of the business management model of the agency. The Executive Director strategically directs and oversees day-to-day operations, including fiscal and human resources dedicated to the acquisition, training and pedagogy of languages, knowledge of existing and emerging language technologies, as well as the provision of translation and interpretation services in a fee-for-service environment, while publicly representing and promoting the organization's activities in the business, education, and legislative communities, as mandated by State law.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership and Operational Management - Ensure efficient delivery of language services and oversee day-to-day operations of the programs and departments of TLC:
Financial Management - Manage the organization's budget, monitor financial performance, and ensure fiscal responsibility, profitability, and sustainability:
HR/Personnel Management/Supervision - Recruit, manage, and develop a diverse and skilled workforce; Foster a positive organizational culture:
Program Development - Identify opportunities for new language programs and services, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop relevant offerings:
Marketing and Branding - Experience in marketing, public relations, networking, and fundraising, as well as excellent communications and presentation skills, are required.
Qualifications:
Education:
Required: Master’s degree required in Public Administration, languages or related field.
Preferred: Doctoral degree required in Public Administration, languages or related field.
Experience:
Required: Five years leadership experience in language service provision, language education, language administration, services or related arenas which demonstrate ability to perform functions as described.
Preferred: Connected to state and/or national professional organizations in language services field; History of working with network groups, internal and external stakeholders, and other government bodies; Experience in preferably a local or state government organization with similar work goals
Skills:
Required:
Preferred:
Behaviors:
The Executive Director must be able to maintain respect and trust within the Institute. This position requires integrity, honesty and good ethics to successfully work with all levels of the University of Tennessee system.
Location:
The position is located Nashville, TN and will require occasional statewide travel, including overnight travel.
Salary is based on a combination of professional experience and qualifications.
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume, and at least three (3) references with contact information. For best consideration, applications should be submitted by July 10, 2024. Position will remain open until filled.
Full Time
$112k-146k (estimate)
06/12/2024
08/10/2024
utk.edu
FARRAGUT, TN
7,500 - 15,000
1794
SHERRY BARR
$1B - $3B
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate departments and eleven graduate departments and hosts more than 26,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2009 ranking of universities, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 118th among national universities and 52nd among public institutions of higher learning. Its ties to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and con...tinued under the UT-Battelle partnership, have positioned the University as co-manager and allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students enjoyed by few other institutions of comparable standing. Also affiliated with the University are the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge, Tennessee and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The University is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in the East Tennessee region and a self-proclaimed 'teaching hospital' due to its aggressive medical research programs and position as the primary career destination for most medical school graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis.
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