Assistant Director, Office of the Director of Police

Immediately

Salary commensurate with experience

40 hours weekly

Office of the Director of Police

A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, five health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 116,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's fourteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

Assists the Executive Director of Police in guiding and supervising all aspects of law enforcement activities throughout the U. T. System.

• Functional Strategy Formation: Lead the development and implementation of strategy for an important area of responsibility within a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
• Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Budgeting: Manage budget plans for a department. May involve development or delivery or both.
• Policy Development and Implementation: Develop functional or operational policies and help develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or department. Take responsibility for creating underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation.
• Policies and Procedures Development: Develop policies, procedures, and related guidelines for an important area of responsibility within a function, ensuring compliance with external requirements and integration with the broader functional policy framework.
• Improvement/Innovation: Initiate, formulate, and implement new business practices within a specific discipline while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organization's change management program.
• Business Planning: Develop and propose annual business plans for a given area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy. Recommend financial and headcount budgets; propose business targets, for example, revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs); and schedule key activities/projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organization.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Performance Management: Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
• Organization Structure: Contribute to the definition of organization structure by recommending reporting lines, identifying interfaces between elements of the organization, and proposing roles and responsibilities, to align with the corporate structure and organization principles.
• Organizational Capability Building: Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool.

• Policy and procedures: Operates as a recognized expert to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies.
• Adaptive Mindset: shift into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario.
• Managing Change: demonstrate a change mindset as well as plan, execute and monitor activities during times of change whilst keeping performance levels up.
• Organization Design and Development: ensure that the organization has an appropriate culture, values and design to deliver organizational objectives in the short and long term and that structural change is effectively managed.
• Strategic Planning: envision a desired future and translate this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them.
• Verbal Communication: express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications.
• Effectively Presents Solutions: communicate and articulate potential resolutions or strategies in a clear, compelling, and tailored manner to address specific challenges or meet organizational needs.

• Doctoral/JD and 8 years of experience, OR
• Master's degree and 8 years of experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree and 10 years of experience
• 3 years of supervisory experience
• Peace Officer License
• Advanced certification issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education

• Master certification issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education
• Experience conducting administrative or Internal Affairs investigations
• Experience in Major Crimes or criminal investigations
• Rank of Lieutenant or above

• Driving is required and an essential part of the position.
• Uniforms and/or personal protection equipment (furnished).
• May work in extreme temperatures.
• May work in all weather conditions.
• May work around chemical fumes.
• May work around standard office conditions.
• May work around biohazards.
• May work around chemicals.
• May work around electrical and/or mechanical hazards.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
• Use of manual dexterity.
• Climbing of stairs.
• Climbing of ladders.
• Lifting and moving objects.

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in TRS is mandatory.

A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

The University of Texas System Administration is a federal contractor committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.

For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu.