Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitleInnovation and Strategy Director
Job CodeAD077
Scaled JobNo
Salary Grade33
Family NameAdministration
Sub Family NameAdministrative Services
Job Overview
Job SummaryPromotes and facilitates innovation within the instruction, technology, research, and strategic partnerships areas for a school, college, or division, serving as principle contact for internal and external agencies in administration, fundraising and outreach.
Job Responsibilities
  • Identifies innovative opportunities that best benefit the mission, vision, and goals of the unit and the university
  • Champions partnership development for long-term sustainable advantage in selected markets
  • Directs the overall vision of a school, college, or division, focusing on new program development and establishing and maintaining partnership opportunities across the institution, government, profit, and non-profit organizations
  • Develops and audits the unit budget.
  • Directs or leads the strategic plan and initiatives of the unit
  • Develops and implements fundraising goals and strategies for the unit
  • Plans advancement and development objectives and set priorities for the unit, working collaboratively with committees or creative teams to explore new ventures and address emerging technological trends and issues
  • Develops and maintains relationships with industry and other partners, serving as the principal point of contact for the unit
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
Additional Information
Employee CategoryLimited (LI)
Supervision RequiredYes
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Master's Degree - Preferred Minimum

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.

[updateD September 12, 2022]