Position Information
Hiring Department: Integrated Planning
Reports To: Assistant Vice President of Budget and Payroll Services
Job Location: El Paso, Texas (Fully On Site)
Posting End Date: Open until filled. This posting may close once a sufficient number of qualified applications have been received.
Hours: 40 hours per week, standard Monday- Friday 8:00am- 5:00pm. Flexibility is required on evenings and weekends.
FLSA status: Exempt
Earliest Start Date: As soon as possible.
Salary: $110,000 Annually.
Required Application Materials:
Position Summary
This role serves as a central coordinator and strategic liaison among internal departments, executive leadership, campus committees, external partners, and affected stakeholders to ensure upcoming projects are planned, communicated, and implemented with a clear understanding of operational impacts, stakeholder needs, institutional priorities, and resource requirements.
Statement of Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead and manage planning initiatives for the Division of the Vice President for Business Affairs, with emphasis on real estate, parking, facilities management, space planning, infrastructure, and other operational priorities.
Develop comprehensive project plans, strategic roadmaps, implementation timelines, decision frameworks, and communication materials to support executive-level planning and decision-making.
Coordinate cross-functional committees, working groups, and stakeholder engagement processes to assess project impacts, identify risks, resolve issues, and align priorities.
Assess the operational, financial, physical, and stakeholder impacts of proposed projects and recommend strategies to mitigate disruption and improve project outcomes.
Monitor progress on assigned initiatives, track milestones, maintain project documentation, and prepare status updates, briefings, presentations, and reports for senior leadership.
Support long-range planning related to campus growth, land use, leased and owned real estate, parking demand, facility needs, business operations, and resource allocation.
Facilitate effective communication with affected stakeholders, including faculty, staff, students, vendors, community partners, and institutional committees.
Identify interdependencies across projects and departments and ensure alignment with institutional strategic goals, business continuity needs, regulatory requirements, and campus standards.
Manage project-related meetings, agendas, minutes, action items, follow-up communications, and accountability processes.
Develop and recommend policies, procedures, workflows, and process improvements that enhance project coordination and strategic planning effectiveness.
Provide leadership, supervision, direction, and performance management for assigned staff, consultants, or project teams, as applicable.
Represent the division in meetings, committees, and planning forums and provide professional recommendations based on data, institutional priorities, and best practices.
Perform other related duties as assigned in support of the mission and priorities of the Division of the Vice President for Business Affairs.
Knowledge of all Microsoft Office software and able to learn and use institutional software systems.
Complies with all State and University policies.
Other duties may be assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations objectives, policies and applicable laws.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, planning, project management, higher education administration, or a related field.
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Experience: Five years of progressively responsible experience in project management, strategic planning, business operations or facilities planning. Occasional traveling required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Why Pick UTEP
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a comprehensive public research university that is increasing access to excellent higher education. We advance discovery of public value and positively impact the health, culture, education, and economy of the community we serve.
UTEP is America's leading Hispanic-serving university. Located at the westernmost tip of Texas, where three states and two countries converge along the Rio Grande, 84% of our 26,000 students are Hispanic, and half are the first in their families to go to college. UTEP offers 170 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs at the only open-access, top-tier research university in America.
This is an especially exciting time to join UTEP as it advances the goals of its 2030 Strategic Plan. Built around the institution's core strengths-its location, its people, its supportive culture, and its community partnerships-the plan lays out a bold vision for the next decade, aimed at maximizing the University's regional impact and national stature.
Miner Perks and Benefits
What UTEP Offers:
Disclaimer: Eligibility for perks and benefits may vary based on part-time or full-time employment.
Additional Information
Note: To the extent that this position involves research, work, or access to critical infrastructure as referenced in Executive Order GA-48, being hired for and continuing to be employed in this position requires the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure.
The primary accountabilities are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or some of the primary accountabilities listed. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented in the incumbents' performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents' immediate supervisor or manager. This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes the employer to obtain criminal history record information. A valid driver's license issued by the State where the applicant resides and insurability as defined in UTS 157 may be required to perform the positions essential functions.
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; stoop, kneel and crouch. The employee is frequently required to use hands to feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to lift and move up to 25 pounds.
The noise level in the work environment ranges from moderate to very loud.
In keeping with its access, excellence, and impact mission, The University of Texas at El Paso is committed to a learning and working environment that honors the talents, respects the differences, and nurtures the growth and development of all. We seek to attract faculty and staff who share our commitment.
The University of Texas at El Paso is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity in employment or the provision of services in accordance with state and federal law. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes an employee's or prospective employee's right to be free from sexual harassment under Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972. Inquiries-including the filing of a Formal Complaint or reporting an incident-about the application of Title IX may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, who can be reached by phone at (915) 747-8358, by email at titleix@utep.edu, or by mail at 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, Kelly Hall, Room 223C.
For accommodation information for employees and applicants with disabilities, please contact UTEPs Equal Opportunity Office at eoaa@utep.edu.