Director of the Budget Office

The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is seeking applications for its next Budget Director. UAA is a dual-mission, comprehensive university with the mission to transforming lives through teaching, research, community engagement and creative expression in a diverse and inclusive environment. As Alaska’s largest university, UAA prides itself on excellence, student success, open access, and community engagement.

The Budget Director is UAA’s lead on all budget management and financial planning matters. This position director oversees UAA’s budget development, financial projections and unit financial reporting, and cost/revenue transfer activity. The Budget Director maintains critical relationships with peers across the UA System and UAA’s colleges, community campuses, and major departments. The Budget Director reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services and actively supports UA System efforts, such as the System Budget Work Team, preparation of financial reports to the Board of Regents, and responses to State and Legislative inquiries regarding UAA’s budget requests.

UAA seeks an engaging and strategic-minded person to serve as our next Budget Director. In this dynamic, fast-paced role, the Budget Director serves as a strategic and policy resource for all UAA campuses, colleges, and the University of Alaska System partners. UAA has several campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska with a combined size of over $270 million across a diverse mix of revenues. UAA’s campuses are located on the ancestral lands of the Dena’ina, Ahtna Dene, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, and dAXunhyuu peoples.

The Budget Director is responsible for the strategic planning for UAA’s financial assets, including the development of UAA’s annual operating budget. The Budget Director maintains strong relationships with college deans, campus directors, UA System peers, ensuring UAA’s financial practices meet the needs of our academic operations. The Budget Director ensures the effectiveness of UAA’s management reporting function – a quarterly look at unit financial activity and projections for the remainder of the year.

This is an exempt position with full benefits, including health insurance, retirement, and tuition benefits for you and your family. Come join our team of professionals as we advance UAA’s mission of transforming lives!

The ideal candidate for this role should possess a master’s degree or professional registration in a relevant field, 6-8 years of progressively responsible experience. Strong preference for individuals with prior experience at a dual-mission, public university; industry peer organization involvement; and, working in an environment with a strong emphasis on shared governance.

The UAA community has identified four core competencies at the heart of quality at our university. These qualities are core to everything we do:
- Effective Communication: The knowledge and skills necessary to engage in effective communication in diverse contexts and formats.
- Creative and Critical Thinking: The knowledge and skills necessary for the critical exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events in order to creatively design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer complex questions or achieve a desired goal.
- Intercultural Fluency: The knowledge and skills necessary to promote effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts, particularly in terms of the diverse populations of Alaska.
- Personal, Professional, and Community Responsibility: The knowledge and skills necessary to promote personal flourishing, professional excellence, and community engagement.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree in relevant field and six years progressively responsible experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Additional skills and abilities specific:
- Knowledge of development, monitoring and reviewing budgets.
- Proven success in leadership and management.
- Experience with process improvement methods
- In-depth working knowledge of university or public-sector fiscal policy and procedures, and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Knowledge of university org, fund, and program code structure preferred.
- Proficiency in interpreting financial data in order to provide guidance to university administration, and ability to communicate that data effectively to internal and external constituencies.
- Thorough knowledge of spreadsheet, database, and query development, such as used in Banner Finance/HR, TOAD and Excel software. Ability to create queries, produce reports, and summarize results for analysis.
- Ability to understand and interpret complex regulations, such as State of Alaska Gaming, University payroll procedures, and Board of Regents policy.

Position Details:

This is a full-time, exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and full employee benefits package. UA provides a generous compensation package that includes retirement options, annual leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition waivers for employees and family members, and affordable medical, dental and vision care coverage. New hires will be placed on the UA Staff Salary Schedule, Grade 84, based on education and experience.

Applications will be accepted for review on June 30, 2025. To ensure consideration, please apply by 11:55 PM, Alaska Standard Time on June 29,2025.

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☎️If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact uaa_ayadmin@alaska.edu.

*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.  Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

The University of Alaska (UA) is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact UA Human Resources by phone at 907-450-8200.

The University of Alaska (www.alaska.edu) is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer and Educational Institution.  The University is committed to a policy of non-discrimination (www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination) against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

Your application for employment with the University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under the Alaska Public Records Act.

All employees at the University of Alaska are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professionalism when conducting or engaged in university business.

*Each university within the University of Alaska system publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report which contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the University will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Noncampus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.  The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.  

Access to the reports is available at:

UAA: (Addresses Anchorage campus, Aviation Technology Complex, JBER - Elmendorf Extension, JBER - Richardson Extension, Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Kodiak High School Extension, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and Prince William Sound College - Cordova Extension) Online: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety. Request a paper copy in person: UAA Police Department Office at Room 114 of Eugene Short Hall on the Anchorage campus / UAA Dean of Students Office at Room 122 of Rasmuson Hall on the Anchorage campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-786-1120 or police@uaa.alaska.edu / 907-786-1214 or uaa_deanofstudents@alaska.edu. 

UAF: (Addresses Fairbanks Campus, Bristol Bay Campus, Chukchi Campus, Community and Technical College, Kasitsna Bay Campus, Seward Marine Center, Tok Campus, Kuskokwim Campus, and Northwest Campus) Online: https://www.uaf.edu/orca/files/ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability on the 3rd Floor of Constitution Hall. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-474-7300 or uaf-orca@alaska.edu.

UAS: (Addresses the Juneau Auke Bay Campus, Juneau Technical Education Center, Sitka Campus, & Ketchikan Campus) Online: https://uas.alaska.edu/equity-and-compliance/docs/clery/UAS_ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: Hendrickson Building, Suite 202 on the Juneau campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-796-6371 or emailing uas.clery@alaska.edu.