Strategic Manager, Dean’s Office — Nursing & Health Studies

Fairfield University; Fairfield (CT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Fairfield University’s Egan School invites applications for a Strategic Manager. The role acts as the Dean’s principal strategic deputy, overseeing governance, dashboards, and cross-functional initiatives across the School and with central University offices.

Responsibilities include preparing briefing materials, coordinating accreditation activities, managing the Dean’s calendar, and supporting external communications.

Qualifications

• Have a bachelor’s degree in business, higher education administration, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Have a minimum of seven years of progressively responsible administrative, operational, or project-management experience, including direct support to senior leadership.
• Demonstrate skill in executive writing and editing, data-management, governance and meeting management, and projecttracking.
• Have proficiency with integrated enterprise systems (Workday or equivalent) and data-reporting tools Tableau or equivalent).
• Exercise discretion, confidentiality, and sound independent judgment, with strong interpersonal, communication, organizational, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal strategic deputy to the Dean, managing the flow of executive priorities, decisions, and follow-through across Egan.
• Own the strategic report and the dashboard, tracking action items and reporting progress against Egan’s strategic priorities.
• Maintain the decision queue for the Office of the Dean, ensuring commitments are recorded, assigned, and tracked to completion.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that span units, including accreditation milestones, strategic partnerships, and program expansion, convening responsible parties and monitoring progress against deadlines.
• Draft the Egan annual report and related briefing materials for budget cycle presentations and executive meetings.
• Track sponsored-program and grant reporting deadlines and deliverables at the Dean’s Office level, coordinating with principal investigators and the Office of Grants and Research to ensure timely submission, without assuming financial administration of awards.
• Support advisory board and stakeholder communication for the Kanarek Center for Palliative Care
• Prepare briefing materials and background analysis to support the Dean’s decision-making and external representation.
• Draft and distribute Egan all-school updates to faculty and staff on behalf of the Egan leadership team.
• Coordinate the governance cascade for the School, preparing agendas, materials, and minutes for school-wide meetings, the Leadership Team, the Advisory Board, the Partnership Council, and University engagements.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree in business

Higher education administration

Executive writing

Data-management

Governance & meeting management

Project tracking

Workday

Tableau

Discretion & confidentiality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, higher education administration, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Workday or equivalent

Tableau or equivalent

Job description

Fairfield University’s Egan School invites applications for a Strategic Manager. The role acts as the Dean’s principal strategic deputy, overseeing governance, dashboards, and cross-functional initiatives across the School and with central University offices.

Responsibilities include preparing briefing materials, coordinating accreditation activities, managing the Dean’s calendar, and supporting external communications.