Managing Director UniverCity Alliance
About The Position
The Managing Director of UniverCity Alliance provides strategic leadership and administrative oversight for a statewide partnership program that connects local governments with University of Wisconsin - Madison resources to advance community-identified priorities. Housed within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UniverCity Alliance brings together students, faculty, instructors, and community partners to address pressing local challenges through collaborative engagement rooted in the Wisconsin Idea. The Managing Director leads program planning, implementation, evaluation, and outreach efforts while fostering strong partnerships between the university and local governments. This role is responsible for overseeing strategic initiatives, managing operational policies and budgets, supervising staff, and ensuring effective delivery of outreach programming across diverse communities. The Managing Director also leads fundraising and philanthropic engagement efforts to secure financial support from individuals, foundations, and corporate partners. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills, along with experience in public sector collaboration, community engagement, and program management.
Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Experience delivering and planning outreach program activities
- Experience promoting partnerships between institutions
- Leadership and/or management experience
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with local governments
- Familiarity with urban studies and local government issues
- Experience with project management and facilitation
- Substantive knowledge of university-community relations
- Experience preparing for and monitoring a budget
- Experience recruiting, building relationships with, and organizing people from non-profit organizations, businesses, and/or local governments
- Demonstrated experience engaging, recruiting, and collaborating with a wide range of educators, subject‑matter experts, and/or professional partners to support projects.
Responsibilities
- Monitors the unit or program budget and approves program expenditures
- Supervises the implementation of outreach-program-focused strategic planning initiatives and objectives
- May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
- Manage, design, develop, and implement fundraising strategies to secure private philanthropic support for the program from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Maintain and develop ongoing relationships to advance giving.
- Determines outreach program needs and the personnel resource allocation plan
- Reviews recommendations for and provides input on the design and development of new outreach programs or services
- Develops and implements operating policies and procedures to promote the outreach program in alignment with the strategic plan
Benefits
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison is committed to equity, inclusion and employee well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
