Position Definition:

The duties of a Higher Education Officer are:

A. To assume full administrative responsibility for some major area of university or college activity, such as institutional research, campus planning and development, coordination of relations with community and civic groups, supervision and coordination of all educational data processing, coordination of applications to federal, state, and private foundations for educational grants, direction of specific specialized campus activities or, B. to function as executive assistant to the chancellor or president or, C. to develop some major aspect of new programs.

Qualifications:

For appointment as Higher Education Officer, the candidate must have demonstrated satisfactory qualities of personality and character and ability to work with others for the good of the institution. He/she must have had at least eight years of related experience. He/she must be sufficiently well versed in the overall functions of a university to be able to assume full responsibility, answerable as a general rule to his/her college president (or to the chancellor, deputy chancellor or vice chancellor if he/she is assigned to a university position) for some major area of university or college activity. He/she must possess at least a baccalaureate degree and show evidence of exceptional achievement in his/her chosen field as well as potential for future growth. An advanced degree above the baccalaureate degree may be required as appropriate to perform the duties of a particular position. An appropriate combination of education above the baccalaureate degree and demonstrable skills and/or years of experience may be substituted for the eight years of experience in determining qualifications for the position of Higher Education Officer.