Job Details

Administrative Director

Position Number: 6286526
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Administrative Vice Presidents

Administrative Director

Job Summary

SCI Summary
The University of Utah is a Carnegie Research I Institution and member of the Association of American Universities (AAU); the SCI Institute is a trans-college, research-focused partnering entity at the University of Utah consisting of faculty from 4 academic colleges along with students, and staff (185 current personnel). Our vision is to empower our students and scholars to impact society through transformative multidisciplinary computing research. Our mission is to bring together excellence spanning multiple domains to tackle problems of societal importance. We accomplish this through collaborative, translational research in computing. Our core strengths include imaging, simulation, visualization, data science, and scientific and high-performance computing.
Over more than two decades, the SCI Institute has established itself as an internationally recognized leader in visualization, scientific and biomedical computing, and image analysis applied to a broad range of challenging problems. For example, the SCI Institute is ranked by CSRankings (http://csrankings.org) as housing the top visualization group internationally.
Alongside its research goals is a passion to educate students and staff. The SCI Institute is proud to have supported over 400 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and nearly 100 undergraduates to achieve an education at the cutting edge of research. SCI graduates move into faculty positions with universities internationally and also become innovators with companies such as Apple, Exxon Mobil, Nvidia, Google, Intel, Boston Scientific, Orthogrid, Philips Medical, and Medtronic. Additional information about the Institute and current faculty can be found at http://www.sci.utah.edu.
Job Summary
The University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is hiring an Administrative Director to lead core operations and strategic planning in support of its mission. This position plays a central leadership role, working closely with the SCI Director to manage the Institute's financial, administrative, and personnel systems.
The Administrative Director will oversee budget development, space planning, staff management, and administrative compliance, ensuring that all operations run efficiently and align with institutional and federal research requirements. This role requires a strong understanding of academic research environments and the ability to coordinate across departments, funding agencies, and university leadership.
Candidates should bring experience in managing complex organizations, a track record of building effective systems, and the judgment to support long-term planning in a research-driven context. This is a key leadership position for someone who can turn operational strategy into sustained institutional support for innovation.

Responsibilities
Essential Functions

Establishes administrative and operations performance measures such as metrics, service levels, escalation paths, etc., to ensure consistent operations and performance.
Identifies gaps, redundancies, bottlenecks and opportunities for efficiencies in the administrative and financial processes and systems.
Facilitates cooperative and collaborative community and institutional relationships.
Provides strategic oversight and leadership for human resources at the SCI Institute.
Ensures competency of staff, determines departmental training needs, develops and presents educational programs and training as needed, mentors, coaches and oversees ongoing staff performance management.
Coordinates with the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (SVPAA) office to ensure timely budget approval and alignment with university financial policies.
Directs the compilation of data used to prepare budgets, accounts, and coordinating appropriations while balancing University fund requirements.
Provides strategic direction for administrative and financial operations by setting short and long-term goals, estimating budgetary requirements for space and non-research equipment, and planning and implementing special operations projects and policies.
Forecasts capital and operating budget needs in evaluating and reporting on financial analysis, space utilization, staff performance evaluation, etc.
Develops strategies consistent with the University of Utah's continuous quality improvement program.
Maintains effective control of the unit's budget while ensuring that funds are used to meet the goals and mission of the university and the Institute, as defined by the SCI Director.
Oversees Accounting and Operations Managers and coordinates all aspects of non-technical staff management including recruitment and retention of assigned staff.
Oversees the analysis and determination of appropriate administrative staff mix to support Institute needs.
Participates in committee and other meetings to establish and coordinate administrative plans and policies.

Problem SolvingIncumbents in this position have the authority to manage assigned units and designated programs and services. Directs the planning and administration of the unit's budget and makes spending decisions within budget guidelines. Oversees program development for the Institute in tandem with fellow Directors and ensures that policies and procedures are followed.CommentsWork Environment and Level of Frequency typically requiredNearly Continuously: Office environment.Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be requiredNearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically requiredNearly Continuously: Office environment.Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be requiredNearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, clinical field, or related area, or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience); nine years of progressively more responsible management experience; and demonstrated leadership, staff management, and effective communications skills required.

Completion of hospital provided supervisory training within one year of employment may also be required.

This position has no responsibility for providing care to patients.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related area, or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience); nine years of progressively more responsible management experience; and demonstrated leadership, staff management, and effective communications skills required. Master's degree in Business Administration or related Area preferred. Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN42125B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary:
Department: 00810 - Scient Comp & Imag Instit-Oper
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: $153,000 - $164,000 commensurate with experience
Close Date: 9/9/2025
Open Until Filled:

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