Chief Administrative Officer Job Vacancy at The University of Ottawa

Job Title: Chief Administrative Officer
Job Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Job Ref.:  J0114-0517 
Company/Employer: The University of Ottawa
Job Type: Regular Full Time
About Us
The University of Ottawa aspires to employing a staff that fully represents the diversity of Canada’s population. As a result, it is committed to employment equity principles and aims to provide an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Therefore, the University encourages you to fill out the optional section that covers employment equity when you create your profile.

Job Description
Provides strategic and operational leadership in the planning, development and implementation of financial strategies as well as in human, material and IT resource management for activities such as budgetary planning and oversight, to ensure Faculty teaching and research activities run effectively and efficiently.

Job Requirements:

• Theoretical and practical knowledge of financial and human resource management normally acquired through a combination of an undergraduate degree as well as a minimum of 10 years’ experience in a management position 
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in designing and implementing organization-wide policies and strategies 
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and processes involved in strategic planning in order to develop and guide the creation of short- and long-term plans 
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in financial management and forecasting 
• Knowledge and understanding of the University’s mandate, vision and culture, and of the Faculty’s vision and objectives 
• Experience in project management as well as in managing human resources, including ensuring effective teamwork, resolving conflict and conducting negotiations 
• Experience using computer systems and software, such as Windows, word processing applications, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, email and the Internet, among others

Key competencies required at the University of Ottawa:

• Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
• Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
• Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
• Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

Other competencies:

• Ability to analyze and interpret documents in order to apply relevant policies, procedures and collective agreements 
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills; ability to work under pressure and manage multiple and sometimes conflicting deadlines 
• Analytical skills and capacity for synthesis; ability to always see the big picture 
• Bilingualism — French and English (spoken and written)

Note: This position is excluded from all union accreditation units. All applications will be considered equally. This posting may appear simultaneously on external websites.

Schedule with an average of 35hrs/week.

CODL certificates can be considered an asset. Don’t forget to add them to your resume.

We thank all candidates for applying. We will only contact candidates selected for further consideration.

If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any particular adaptive measures you might require. Any information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Remember to upload a current version of your CV into the My documents section of your career profile (please include the job ID number, i.e. J0000-0000, in the title of your document).

Deadline Date: 02/02/2014

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