Career Center

Position Overview

Duties and Responsibilities

• Strategic Fundraiser and Catalyst: Work to secure resources to advance COBA’s strategic priorities through fundraising and internal program growth.
• Relationship Builder: Build and strengthen relationships to facilitate connections between COBA’s students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the broader business and scholarly communities.
• Inventive and Visionary Leader: Use inventive approaches to address the emerging challenges facing business education and situate COBA as a leader of business education into the future.
• Driver of Student Success: Promote an inclusive, student-centered culture and accountability for meeting student success goals.
• Champion of Accountability and Equity: Foster a collaborative and welcoming culture in COBA that advances diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Empowering Manager: Recognize the broad array of talent among COBA faculty and staff and empower them to thrive in their work in teaching, research, service, and operations, consistent with mission.
• Transparent Decision Maker and Skilled Communicator: Lead collaboratively, emphasizing transparent decision making and clear communication with internal and external stakeholders.

• Foster academic excellence through teaching, research, and student success
• Enhance enrollment and revenue growth
• Strengthen the impact of COBA
• Build diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the COBA community

• 11,300+ students (7,660 undergraduate; 3,660 graduate)
• 2,600+ employees
• 11 nationally and internationally recognized academic divisions, including a law school and school of dentistry
• 78 majors, 83 minors, more than 70 doctoral and master’s programs and more than 20 graduate certificate programs
• About 63% of first-year undergraduate students come from outside of Wisconsin, and students as a whole represent almost every state in the U.S. and 60+ countries

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A commitment to promoting the values and goals of Catholic, Jesuit higher education
• Capacity and demonstrated ability to fundraise in the context of annual, capital, and comprehensive campaigns
• Strong negotiating skills needed to advocate effectively for COBA with university administration
• Ability to establish a visible and respected presence and to position COBA nationally in the greater business, not-for-profit, and governmental communities and among relevant stakeholders such as alumni and the general public
• Understanding of changing market trends and the initiative to explore their implications for the structure of business education
• A track record demonstrating administrative leadership, vision, innovation, and increasing experience and responsibilities in an environment characterized by collegial management, mentorship, and inclusive decision making
• An earned doctorate or record of distinguished accomplishments that support an appointment as a full-time faculty member
• A commitment to providing a relevant and excellent educational experience to students from a wide range of backgrounds
• The ability to represent the college and communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders, ranging from students to faculty to donors
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms and experience supporting, promoting, and implementing the learning opportunities offered by a diverse community
• Financial acumen and the ability to understand and act upon complex financial models and budgets
• An innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to take calculated risks
• Management skills exemplified by a record of success in delegation and high levels of responsibility and accountability

Special Instructions to Applicants