Assistant Dean of Facilities, Planning, and Management

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other appropriate technical area, or an equivalent combination of technical education, training, and experience. Fifteen years of related, progressively responsible experience requiring extensive leadership and strategic expertise in facilities operations, maintenance, and planning, performing duties similar to those listed above.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Job Knowledge and Subject Matter Expertise

• Advanced knowledge of best practices in facilities management discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing large facility organizations, or experience in managing a large professional service organization.
• Demonstrated experience as an executive level facilities manager with responsibility for developing and mentoring managers and senior professionals.
• Advanced knowledge and application of relevant codes, regulations, and processes.

Planning: Setting objectives and determining a course of action for achieving those objectives

• Experience establishing strategic plans to position and organization to be effective towards meeting long-range goals
• Experience guiding the development of tactical and operational blueprints and roadmaps that support strategic plans  
• Experience developing policies and procedures that impact multiple sectors or an entire organization
• Evaluate the competitive environment and landscape to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats/risks to the organization and adjust plans to position the organization to achieve objectives.

Organizing: organize the people and other resources necessary to carry out the plan

• Experience developing organizational structures and making organizational design decisions to strategically position and allocate human resources to ensure the accomplishment of goals and objectives
• Experience aligning human and fiscal resources to ensure the effective stewardship of annual and multi-year budgets.

Leading: Influence people to cooperate towards a common goal and create a situation for a collective response

• Ability to exercise a high level of diplomacy in persuading and influencing a wide variety of people at various levels to achieve results.
• Ability to effectively communicate new ideas, future operating models, and approaches to work
• Ability to navigate and successfully lead others through organizational changes
• Ability to utilize political acumen to negotiate win-win solutions and gain buy-in from stakeholders
• Ability to cultivate strong collaborative relationships with faculty and able to anticipate faculty needs.

Controlling: measuring performance against goals and plans, and helping correct deviations from standards

• Experience measuring and monitoring organizational performance against established goals and plans
• Experience managing the work of subordinate directors, managers, and professional staff and achieving results through their efforts
• Experience utilizing process excellence and problem-solving methodologies to streamline and standardize business processes and ensure the flow of customer value to stakeholders 

Certifications and Licenses:

• None

Physical Requirements*:

• Frequently sitting, perform desk-based computer tasks, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10pounds.
• Occasionally stand/walk, twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, use a telephone, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 11-20 pounds.
• Rarely kneel/crawl, climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other), reach/work above shoulders, grasp forcefully, writing by hand, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh >40 pounds.
• - Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.

Work Conditions:

• Requires 24-hour response availability seven days per week for emergency situations.
• May be exposed to noise > 80dB TWA.
• May working at heights 4 – 10 ft.

Work Standards:

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies

The expected pay range for this position is $264,000 to $308,000 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

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