Director of Athletics

1. Leadership Style & Role:
a. Ensures the Athletics Department consistently delivers on university mission: to graduate broadly educated, service-minded human beings.
b. Excels at gaining buy-in and getting high quality, timely results.
c. Gifted mentor, revels in the success of others.

2. Problem Solving & Analytic Ability:
a. Uses good judgement always, driven to excel on behalf of the university.
b. Swift to anticipate and analyze complex systems and share those insights with others in an effective way.

3. Management Experience:
a. Record of successful oversight of complex planning, player and coach development, and budgeting efforts.
b. Understands the Athletics Department as a core part of a learning organization that drives, as well as partners, in its success.

4. Planning & Strategy:
a. Demonstrated experience defining strategic goals that are internally- and externally-facing and gaining buy-in from those inside and outside the organization.
b. Fosters a culture of data-gathering, data-tracking, and critical analysis of data in his/her team and the department as a whole.

5. Public Presence:
a. Builds community at home institution and beyond.
b. Great EQ that reads the room effectively and communicates respect to all.

6. Communications Style & Skills:
a. Core values and stakes are always clear in the individual’s communication.
b. Reputation for care and skill in communicating about process, to keep multiple constituencies appropriately aware of complex undertakings as they unfold.

7. Communications Style & Skills:
a. Core values and stakes are always clear in the individual’s communication.
b. Reputation for care and skill in communicating about process, to keep multiple constituencies appropriately aware of complex undertakings as they unfold.