Administrator

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada; onsite, full-time

Salary: $7,158.42–$10,292.25 CAD monthly

Company

hirify.global's Department of Political Science is a teaching and research department supporting undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty research, and affiliated institutes and programs.

What you will do

• Provide operational leadership for departmental administration, strategic planning, policies, procedures, and process improvements.
• Manage and monitor an approximately $10.4 million departmental budget, including operating funds, endowments, fees for service, and research accounts.
• Develop financial forecasts, budget submissions, reports, controls, reconciliations, and recommendations for resource allocation.
• Lead human resource processes including hiring, training, performance management, staff supervision, collective-agreement interpretation, and personnel issue resolution.
• Oversee faculty searches, appointments, onboarding, leaves, research and grant-funded appointments, tenure and promotion administration, and immigration requirements.
• Administer departmental records, space, facilities, fire and safety regulations, emergency preparedness, and health and safety requirements.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and at least three years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives that conflict with one's own.
• Commitment to developing awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial budgeting, accounting, and reports.
• Experience providing administrative support in an academic environment.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage multiple priorities, anticipate problems, analyze data, interpret complex legislation and policies, solve problems, and provide recommendations.
• Effective verbal, written, and electronic communication skills, including preparing correspondence, reports, presentations, and other written materials.
• Computer experience; knowledge of Workday, SISC, ACMS, SCIENTIA, or ISI is an asset.
• Knowledge of university policies, procedures, and administrative units, with the ability to interpret and advise on them.
• Ability to design and modify websites.
• Ability to build cooperative relationships with students, faculty, and hirify.global staff.

Culture & Benefits

• Staff position in the Department of Political Science within hirify.global's Faculty of Arts.
• Non-union staff role with an ongoing job end date.
• Work involves collaboration with the Department Head, Dean's office, faculty administrators, and other university units.
• Role supports teaching, research, graduate and undergraduate programs, and departmental operations.