Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

Directs the daily operations of the Registrar's Office; supervises senior managers; serves as an internal consultant and implements faculty academic policies; reviews policy exception requests.
Recommends and participates in the development and implementation of university policies and procedures regarding student registration, records, class schedules, instructional space scheduling, residency requirements, identification cards, and graduation requirements.
Maintains and upgrades the University's academic information infrastructures including academic records archives, on-line student database, voice response system, World Wide Web and other electronic databases and information systems.
Establishes and implements short- and long-range department goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures; monitors and evaluates program effectiveness; effects changes required for improvement.
Designs, establishes, and maintains an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives; oversees recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation of unit staff.
Develops and publishes major University information documents including, but not limited to, University Catalogs and class schedules.
Oversees NCAA certification of incoming student-athletes entering the University's various Division 1 interscholastic sports programs; ensures the on-going management of NCAA eligiblity for existing student-athlete participants in these programs.
Develops and manages annual budgets for the organization and performs periodic cost and productivity analyses.
Oversees the overall operations of programs reporting to this position.
Represents the University to various institutional divisions as well as externally to governmental agencies, vendors, students and their parents, and/or the general public.
Recommends and participates in the development of university policies and procedures; may serve on university planning and policy-making committees.
Collaborates with representative of the New Mexico Higher Education Department, and other national, state, and local organizations on the development and implementation of new policies, requirements, and practices.
Upgrades professional knowledge, evaluates new technologies, and recommends implementation as appropriate.
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.