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Visiting Director of SHIELD COVID-19 Testing Operations (139139)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Description:

Visiting Director of SHIELD COVID-19 Testing Operations

Office of the Chancellor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for the Visiting Director of SHIELD COVID-19 Testing Operations. The Visiting Director will provide leadership and oversight of all aspects of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign on-campus SHIELD COVID-19 Testing operations. SHIELD Testing Operations is a 7-day/week operation encompassing 17 different site locations with sites open as early as 6 a.m. with 7 p.m. closures. The SHIELD Testing Operations requires a staff of over 400 temporary employees. The Visiting Director is responsible for ensuring a safe and uninterrupted testing operation.

This position is a 100% full-time, twelve month, benefits-eligible, exempt, Visiting Academic Professional position. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Visiting Academic Professionals are appointed for a temporary duration and are subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (PDF) with the Visiting Academic Professionals Association (AAP/IEA/NEA).

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Program Administration

  • Work closely with SHIELD team to adapt Testing Operations based on SHIELD team protocol changes. May include attending the daily standing and additional SHIELD team meetings. Maintain communication with CLIA Lab for all sample-related matters.
  • Responsible for identifying testing site locations and ensuring all appropriate contracts, agreements and arrangements are in place.
  • Identify and document required setup schematics, secure storage, technology and equipment needs for each venue.
  • Collaborate with necessary university units and external vendors for complete testing operations.
  • Work closely with the Executive Steering Committee Co-chairs to implement any needed changes to testing venues, including early identification of venue issues, analysis of venue capacity and utilization.
  • Make all necessary arrangements for each of the venues for maintenance, cleaning, as well as supply and sample delivery and pickup.
  • Ensure each venue has all needed technology and equipment with appropriate secure storage.
  • Work with Public Affairs to ensure all needed signage is available and installed, replaced as needed. Additionally, work with the Executive Steering Committee and Public Affairs regarding scheduled or urgent changes to testing locations, hours, etc. for public announcements.
  • Work with Facilities and Services for scheduling and management of venue cleaning needs and driver/delivery needs.
  • Provide guidance to the Supply Chain Officer to ensure supply ordering and distribution allows each testing venue to operate without interruption. Authorize purchases as necessary.
  • Provide leadership to the Safety Officer, on matters related to recycling, waste disposal, personal protective equipment needs, safe work practices, and related environments.
  • Serve as a resource for external entities seeking to learn of SHIELD protocols, practices and operations.
  • Provide oversight and guidance on problem resolution and facilitation in the areas of employee relations and employee discipline. Successfully initiate and navigate difficult conversations as situations arise.
  • Provide leadership to SHIELD Testing Operations Zone managers on staff management issues.
  • Develop, review and approve training materials in cooperation with appropriate principals
  • Ensure Zone Managers are aware of any protocol changes in order to incorporate those changes into the operational processes.
  • Provide weekly updates to the Executive Steering Team regarding testing venue utilization and identifying any issues that need the attention of the Executive Steering Team.
  • Provide overall leadership for day to day oversight of the testing venues, primary liaison with IHR Extra Help Services.
  • Provides leadership and coordination for all staffing issues and daily site operations.
  • Provide guidance to Operations Manager to ensure Zone Managers are the first line of problem resolution. Zone Managers should have daily check-ins with assigned venues and act as a first escalation level for each venue for troubleshooting and problem escalation.
  • Work Closely with the Operations Manager to ensure Zone Managers provide orientation and training to new staff.

Other duties as assigned

Required education, experience and qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience in a management role
  • Experience managing projects and logistics, preferably at the University of Illinois or an institution of higher education
  • Experience identifying and addressing customer needs, excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving technical issues; crisis management
  • Ability to work with considerable latitude and independence of action
  • Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
  • Independent decision-making ability that reflects good judgment and discretion
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize work assignments to ensure operational continuity
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Experience with and knowledge of personnel policies and procedures and employee relations
  • Familiarity with developing and implementing HR policies and procedures, preferred
  • Previous experience with and the ability to successfully navigate diffucult conversations.

Environmental Demands:

  • SHIELD Testing Operations is a 7-day/week operation encompassing 17 different site locations with sites open as early as 6 a.m. with 7 p.m. closures therefore this position will be required to work outside normal work hours (weekends and evenings)
  • This an exempt position, not eligible for overtime

Application:

To ensure full consideration, application materials must be received by November 30, 2020. All candidates must create a profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references. Interviews may begin prior to close of the search, but a hiring decision will not be made until after the close of the search. Start date is as soon as possible after the close of the search. For further information about this position, please contact Jennifer Steiling at steiling@illinois.edu.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.

As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of the Chancellor Category:2-Administrative Title:Visiting Director of SHIELD COVID-19 Testing Operations (139139) Open Date:11/09/2020 Organization Name:Office of the Chancellor

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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