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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Job Posting Title:

Executive Director, Risk Management and Transportation

Job Description Summary:

The Executive Director of Risk Management and Transportation is responsible for the leadership, innovation, governance, and management necessary to identify, evaluate, mitigate, and monitor Austin Community College District's operational and strategic transportation and risk requirements. Serves as the District's point of contact to collaborate with faculty, staff, students, and the external communities to safeguard and maintain a culture of cooperation and success.
Develop Risk Management industry standard tools, practices, and policies to analyze and report risks and manage risks accordingly to meet the needs of the College. Ensures the College's Risk Management policies and strategies comply with applicable regulations, rating agency standards, and strategic imperatives of the organization. Monitors and analyzes risks within all College divisions and reports on these risks to the Administration. Chairs or provides critical inputs for College Operations or other committees to lead risk management and transportation oversight of process and alignment with organizational objectives.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following.

• Manages the development, implementation, and evaluation of the collegewide risk management and transportation needs to protect college facilities, assets, intellectual assets, and information technology/computer systems. Recommends and conducts college-wide policy compliance risk management and transportation training to provide a safeguarded and protected environment for the entire college community.
• Directs Risk Management and Transportation in collaboration with Safety and Operations, International Travel, Facilities Services, Facilities & Construction, and Human Resources to design, establish, maintain and document an organizational structure staffing to effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives.
• Administrate and approves procurement insurance requirements for vendors’ delivery of goods and services and partner with the Facilities & Construction Department to define Builders Risk Insurance and Bond requirement for construction solicitations.
• Provides Risk Management expertise to review, make recommendations, and approve terms and conditions for the College’s contract.
• Conduct the selection of insurance, worker compensation, and transportation vendors through a partnership with Procurement, Information Technology Services, and legal counsel in reviewing and approving terms and conditions on behalf of the College.
• Directs the development, implementation, and assessment of the District's Risk Management and Transportation business continuity policies, procedures, and insurance governance. Ensures adherence to Operations goals and provides leadership direction to restore college operations.
• Responsible for managing the insurance recovery account reconciliations and directing insurance account payables.
• Reviews the insurance section of college contracts; and manages the Certificates of Insurance program.
• Maintains annual performance requirements for the Risk Management and Transportation department.
• Presents to the Vice Chancellor: of Safety and Operations and Executive Vice Chancellor: of Public Affairs and Operation the results of the negotiations of all products; keeps Administration informed of any insurance issues and needs for additional coverage.
• Participates and provides leadership on various college-wide committees, councils, process improvement teams, and community organizations, acting in an advisory capacity to expand and improve opportunities for Risk Management and Transportation.
• Serves as the point of contact for the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to collaborate with local agencies to advocate and accomplish public transportation planning and endorsement.
• Reviews incident reports and respond to current and emerging emergency events.
• Manage annual Department of Motor Vehicles eligibility checks and approval of all employees who drive college-owned vehicles (state and county).
• Develops and directs short- and long‐range organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies, and operating procedures; monitors and evaluates effectiveness and effects changes required for improvement.
• Provides managerial direction and control of departmental activities; plans, directs, and reviews the activities and operations of the department; Supervises, trains, coaches, directs, coordinates, and disciplines personnel while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures as related employment laws.
• Recommends hire and termination of personnel actions for positions supervised.

Knowledge

Must possess the required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Federal, state, and local regulations, national standards, and business continuity practices for Risk Management and Transportation.
• Parking detections and response procedures and policy.
• Budget preparation, bid and purchasing procedures, and expense control.
• Effective management and leadership models and techniques, including Servant‐Leadership Principles.
• Comprehension of the community college philosophy and mission.
• Risks related to the design and construction of physical facilities.
• Insurance management, business interruption, and strategies.
• Handling the demands and requirements of senior‐level management in higher education.
• Procedural aspects of property, injury, construction, and cyber security insurance management responsibilities.
• Parking systems configuration and integrations.
• Planning and project management practices and techniques.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Working in a collaborative manner with diverse constituencies.
• Analyzing complex information and implementing long‐range and immediate plans.
• Conducting team efforts to develop, implement, measure, and refine programs and services.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work‐related information and materials.
• Working effectively with a diverse and multicultural student body and staff.
• Excellent communication, written and verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Planning, prioritizing, and problem‐solving.
• Handling multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
• Planning and managing budgets and manpower needs.
• Experience in the design and delivery of essential training programs.

Technology Skills

• Parking control hardware and software configuration, systems integration, and deployment.
• Development and implementation of automated analytic data collection.
• Advance level understanding and use of various office suite applications; spreadsheet, word processing, database, presentation, etc.
• Industry-standard analyst programs and reporting.

Required Work Experience

• Five or more years of related work experience, including managerial experience.

Preferred Work Experience

• Five years of higher education leadership experience.
• Five years of technology integration and system deployment, with a minimum of two-year experience in higher education.
• Five years of project management.
• Five years of direct people management.
• Three years of contract administration
• One year of insurance management.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree.

Preferred Education

• Certification, Degree, or Training in project management, communications, or business-related field.

Other Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with state and national organizations of higher education.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in both a standard office environment and outside.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.
• Occasional weekend and evening work is required.
• Occasional "on call" assignment is required of this position to cover campus emergencies in the ACC District.

Safety

• Provide resources to mitigate risk and enhance operations.
• Create and support workplace safety.

Salary commensurate with experience

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

April 21, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.