Overview:
The Associate Registrar for Curriculum and Scheduling provides primary functional oversight for the curriculum, degree progress, and classroom scheduling areas within the Office of the Registrar (RO). Reporting to the University Registrar, the Associate Registrar is an inclusive campus partner working with key institutional offices to advance the mission of teaching and learning at Princeton University. An engaged leader who builds and practices a culture of belonging through training and thoughtful supervision, the Associate Registrar follows industry standards and best practices for handling student records, managing curriculum and degree progress, administering academic classroom scheduling, and accurately processing data in a secure manner. The Associate Registrar demonstrates operational guidance and direction over the staff, business processes, and technology systems for the Universitys curriculum, degree progress, classroom assignment, online course evaluations, and exam processes. The Associate Registrar is a dedicated leader in operational practice and coordinated time management, who can prioritize and balance daily work with projects while delivering successful outcomes.
Applicants must submit a cover letter. For best consideration, apply by July 31, 2024.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a principal professional resource and manages daily operations of one or more office units as part of the office leadership team.
- Manages staff, proactively ensuring collaborative teamwork through strong, consistent communication.
- Promotes diversity within the team and among the broader community.
- Establishes explicit, tangible performance measures and goals monitored through regular interaction with direct reports. Organizes and leads staff meetings.
- Equitably hires, trains, and mentors new staff.
- Supports academic departments in the cyclical production and maintenance of the curriculum, term-by-term course offering information, and processes to support course enrollment for registration and degree progress.
- Oversees business processes and systems requirements for support of the curricular life-cycle.
- Ensures efficient use of campus-wide academic teaching space through oversight of classroom assignment process. Works closely with relevant offices to improve and refine scheduling policy.
- Partners with Office of the Provost, Facilities and AV Services to maintain and renovate existing classroom inventory. Provides guidance on planning and design of new teaching space.
- Provides functional leadership and subject matter expertise for planning in the design, development, maintenance, refinement, enhancement, and deployment of academic processes and systems.
- Champions the use of university-wide systems for common functions to improve data quality, eliminate shadow systems, and reduce maintenance efforts and/or costs.
- Offers expert support and counsel to relevant faculty committees, affiliated offices, and academic departments.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
- Seven or more years of relevant experience
- Expert knowledge of complex academic policies and procedures such as curriculum, registration, enrollment, degree progress/audit, classrooms, assessment, or scheduling. Familiarity with issues that influence higher education and/or the profession.
- Systems thinker with technical expertise and proficiency working with enterprise software platforms, integrated applications, and reporting tools. Practiced solution seeker with strong understanding of student information systems landscape.
- Recognized managerial and supervisory ability. Demonstrates skill in understanding of individual and cultural differences, has the ability to work effectively with and foster collaboration among a wide range of constituencies in a large, complex academic environment.
- Expertise working with student and academic records, including student records privacy (FERPA) policy and procedures.
- Open, effective communicator with demonstrated ability to engage positively, constructively, and build relationships with administrators, faculty, students, and staff.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of and experience working in student information systems such as: Oracle PeopleSoft; GideonTaylor Forms; EMS, 25Live, or InfoSilem; Stellic and/or other degree audit applications (UAchieve, DegreeWorks, DARS); and course evaluation software such as Explorance Blue.
- Experience in a decentralized Research 1 university
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