Core position responsibilities include monitoring department budgets, initiating purchasing contracts with major vendors, conducting spending audits, developing business plans, analyzing financial data, ensuring legal and policy compliance, supervising unit managers, and improving management systems to strengthen efficiency and accountability. With a division budget of approximately $22 million, the Director leads a division consisting of four managers who directly supervise over 50 staff to manage the department's core administrative functions, ensuring that essential systems, services, and operations run efficiently and effectively.