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Posted: 06-May-22
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Salary: Open
About CCRI:
The Community College of Rhode Island is the state's only public comprehensive associate degree-granting institution. We provide affordable open access to higher education at locations throughout the state. Our primary mission is to offer recent high school graduates and returning adults the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for intellectual, professional and personal growth through an array of academic, career and lifelong learning programs.
At CCRI, we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse campus community. We strive to hire and retain culturally competent faculty and staff members who reflect the demographics of our state and our increasingly diverse student population.
We believe that our diversity is our strength. We celebrate, support and thrive on the diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that are represented across our four campuses.
We are OneCCRI, working together to prepare learners to achieve their highest potential.
To learn about what employees value at CCRI and what it means to work here, please read about our Guiding Principles and watch videos of our employees doing what they do best: https://www.ccri.edu/equity/culture/guidingprinciples.html
Job Summary:
The College is seeking a bold and innovative leader who will work collaboratively with the CCRI leadership team to ensure dramatic increases in CCRI student success and equity over the next several years. Reporting directly to the President, the Vice President will serve as the college's Chief Financial Officer and leader of the business and administrative functions of the college. The Vice President will sit on the President's Senior Leadership Team. The VPFS will lead strategic financial management, human resources, public safety, and physical plant and capital projects for the college with a high degree of integrity, accountability, and transparency The Vice President is responsible for the leadership and oversight of the budget development process, budget analysis and management, accounting, payroll, auxiliary services, bursar, asset protection, and bond fund management. In addition, the Vice President will serve as the college's liaison to the Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education, Governor's Office, and elected officials regarding financial and administrative matters, and will advise CCRI's senior leadership team regarding laws, and regulations, and legislative processes affecting financial affairs. In addition, the VPFS will be responsible for working with the Council on Postsecondary Education's Director of Labor Relations on the college's union bargaining processes and with the college governance process. This leader will be expected to integrate best practices in higher education administration into the vision, strategy, and practices of the division.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise and coordinate the College's Controller's Office, Human Resources, Business Office, Budget, Physical Plant and Capital Projects, Purchasing, Payroll, and Campus Police functions to achieve optimum efficiency and effectiveness in operations.
- Direct the overall development and organization of administration and finance functions to respond to and meet existing and prospective administrative needs of the College.
- Oversee formulation of College fiscal policy, including budget development, investment, long and short-term financing arrangements, debt management, and business enterprise development
- Ensure legal and regulatory compliance regarding all financial functions, including maintenance of relevant documentation.
- Coordinate and direct the planning, financing, and implementation of all College capital improvement, new construction, major renovations, facilities expansion, and property acquisition to meet College needs, given existing financial constraints.
- Coordinate all College business and financial affairs functions with the appropriate staff of the Council on Postsecondary Education and the State Department of Administration.
- Provide regular updates regarding administration and financial matters to the Council, Governor's Office, and elected leaders.
- Serve as the college's representative with collective bargaining units and during the negotiation process.
- Provide senior leadership support to the college's shared governance process.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of ten years of progressively responsible senior-level management experience in a large, complex organization
- Demonstrated expertise in fiscal management, regulatory compliance, human resources, facilities management, business services, project management, and/or business enterprises
- Demonstrated strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the academic and outreach mission, culture, and goals of a community college
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to define goals clearly and to present complex information to various stakeholders
- Demonstrated strong working knowledge of financial and information technologies
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse groups/populations
Competencies:
- Master's degree in a field related to the responsibilities of the position
- Demonstrated experience in higher education or non-profit or government
- Demonstrated knowledge, understanding, and experience of major capital projects and campus master plans (including sustainability issues)
- Demonstrated experience in a collective bargaining environment
- Demonstrated experience in functioning effectively as a member of an administrative team responsible for progressive policy and change management
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to encourage the imagination and creativity of an empowered workforce
- Demonstrated accomplishment in guiding a large organization to the efficient accomplishment of goals in a manner compliant with required rules and regulations
All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
Campus Location: All Campuses
Full-time/Part-time: Full-Time
Salary Range: Commensurate with education and experience.
Special Instructions to Applicants:
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
To apply for this position:
Complete CCRI's online application, and attach a cover letter and resume by the closing date.
You do not need to complete the 'Education History' or 'Employment History' sections within the application if you are attaching a resume that includes the same information.
Please include contact information of three references within the application.
Finalists will be required to provide official college transcripts.
If you need assistance with the online application process, please contact Human Resources at 401-825-2311. TTY: 401-825-2313.EEO Statement:
CCRI is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We recognize that diversity and inclusivity are essential to creating a dynamic, positive and high-performing educational and work environment. We welcome applicants who can contribute to the College's commitment to excellence created by diversity and inclusivity.
CCRI prohibits discrimination, including harassment and retaliation, on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or status as a protected veteran. Inquiries or complaints concerning discrimination shall be referred to the College's Title IX Coordinator at: TitleIXCoordinator@ccri.edu.
The Jeanne Clery Act requires institutions of higher education to disclose campus policy statements and crime statistics. Our annual report is available here:
https://www.ccri.edu/campuspolice/pdfs/Annual%20Security%20Report%202019.pd
