Since 1878, 'The Western Experience' has combined academic excellence with life-long opportunity, and our love of what we do drives who we are.  We seek the best faculty, staff, and students to become part of this proud tradition and to contribute to a vibrant future. Western University is proud to have been named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers again this year!

As Director of Operations, you play an integral role within the Faculty of Law, providing oversight and consultation to ensure staff and faculty receive the necessary guidance on administrative, financial, human resources and facilities policies, practices and procedures.

As Director of Operations, a typical day might include the following:

• Leading, planning, supervising and managing all activities as they relate to finance, human resources and facilities within the Faculty
• Overseeing the financial operating budget, budget modeling and risk analysis
• Solving complex issues, as well as negotiating and influencing decision-making to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Development of the human resources plan for all staff and faculty including consultation with Human Resources and /or Faculty Relations on labour relations and collective agreement issues
• Planning and implementing expanded experiential learning opportunities in collaboration with the Associate and Assistant Deans
• Developing new processes and ensuring consistency across  the Faculty
• Providing strategic oversight of the Faculty’s information technology needs, space planning and facility renewal plan

 
This job might be for you if:
You enjoy problem solving. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative solutions with a consultative and collaborative approach to addressing issues and opportunities

You are strategic and tactical. You can create an inspirational vision for others and implement supporting process to realize it

You like helping people. You enjoy building and maintaining relationships with other departments, key business partners and external agencies

You communicate clearly. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels of the organization. You are diplomatic and have solid negotiation, facilitation and conflict resolutions skills.

You think on your feet. You like handling diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities

You possess business acumen.  You have a proven ability to build and manage financial and business plans, knowledge of collective agreements, and employment standards

You are motivated and driven. You are an independent thinker who is highly motivated and possesses an intrinsic passion for quality.

We’d love to hear from people with:

• An Honours undergraduate degree, preferably in Business or Administration
  • Preferred: Master’s Degree, enrolled or completed CHRL or Accounting Designation
• 7 Years management experience (HR, financial, administrative, or operational), including managing budgets and financial forecasting
• 5 years of supervisory experience leading teams
• Experience in employee relations with direct accountability for recruitment, training and development and performance management
  • Preferred: Experience in a unionized or public sector environment
  • Preferred: Experience in an academic environment.

Interested applicants are asked to visit: www.workingatwestern.uwo.ca to apply online to job reference 6806, by midnight on May 24^th, 2016.
 
The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Western is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation, and persons of any gender identity or gender expression. 
 
Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.  If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please contact Human Resources at hrhelp@uwo.ca or phone 519-661-2194.
 
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those chosen for an interview will be acknowledged.