Agile People Leader

Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you! 

About Us

University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused. 

Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations. 

We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.

 

About the Position

An Agile People Leader manages and leads assigned resources, and is responsible for employee performance management, coaching, recruitment, career development and retention. An Agile People Leader is highly collaborative across numerous functions and builds strong relationships throughout the University.

1. Interact, collaborate and coordinate on a frequent basis with other employees in IT and throughout the University

2. Develop and maintain high performing employees who provide quality and timely delivery of business objectives. 

 

3. Develop, execute and maintain training plans to ensure technical skills needed are available to support the University objectives. 

 

4. Facilitate/contribute to at least one meeting that sets standards, provides shared knowledge opportunities, and oversees improvements to those specific areas of IT.

 

5. Provide leadership and mentoring to team members on behaviors, processes and techniques required to successfully deliver value to the University. 

 

6. Manage the personnel actions for assigned staff which includes but is not limited to, approving vacation, coaching and counseling, conducting ongoing check-ins(including monitoring behaviors and competencies to meet defined expectations), hiring new employees, making salary or merit increase recommendations, performance managing,  training and evaluating employees.

 

7. Maintain relationships with other teams, including Delivery Managers, Product   Management and other team members across the University to ensure consistency of practices and processes and efficiency of team members

 

8. Manage vendor relationships for assigned contract staff resources.

 

9. Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

 

NOTE:  The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties.  Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above.  Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervise 10 to 25 employees

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Collaboration and influencing skills

 

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: 

 

• 4 years of IT work experience

• Understanding and knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures within the technology field

• Excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively interact with internal and external customers and department staff 

• Ability to connect with and manage resources across a broad spectrum of specialties 

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As an Equal Opportunity employer, we particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.