Director of MyDegree

Managerial and Leadership Responsibilities
• Manage MyDegree Team including supervision of full-time, part-time and student staff
• Chair the MyDegree Advisory Board
• Determining, project planning and managing the successful execution of MyDegree upgrades
• Review of curriculum proposals
• Participate in RAM (Registrar, Academic Affairs, and MyDegree) and UCC (University Curriculum Committee)
• Coordinate MyDegree Security/Access Permission
• Attend to administrative management of ticketing system.
• Serve as a key member and leader on select university committees and working groups including, but not limited to,
o ALC - Academic Leadership Council
o College Administrative and Planning Councils
o DSAAs – Director of Student Academic Affairs
o FACT - Functional Area Coordinating Team
o Transfer Group
o Touchbase meetings with CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
o Touchbase meetings with Registrar
o UCC – University Curriculum Committee
o Academic Senate
• Provide training and development to students, faculty and staff on the use of MyDegree
• Collaborate with the General Education Coordinator and Institutional Technology Services to support general education course listings
• Assure Academic Affairs Checksheet Repository is complete and accurate
• Participate in appropriate professional development and training activities

System Administration
• Scribe curricula and curricular changes for all Ferris programs
• Work collaboratively across the institution to develop innovative solutions to program in MyDegree using the Ellucian scribing language.
• Coordinate program-level review and testing; resolve concerns
• Analyze and trouble-shoot system problems concerning degree audits including how the extract from Banner to MyDegree is involved
• Manage the use of existing technologies including serving as the technical administrative liaison between the MyDegree team, the database administrator, and other Banner users such as Enrollment Services
• Review current processes, evaluate, and implement changes for improvement especially as to how we can take advantage of Banner data to improve the degree audit
• Develop reports utilizing the data available within MyDegree and/or Banner
• Provide assistance and serve as a liaison to other key departments for degree audit evaluations for all degree programs
• Stay current with new releases of MyDegree, by researching scribe techniques, participating in the Ellucian E-Commons and the BUGMI users group, and other activities that keep Ferris’ scribing current
• Monitor MyDegree email and respond to questions as needed
• Answer MyDegree support line and help users as needed
• Resolve support tickets submitted through the Ticketing System

Additional Responsibilities
• Create curricular program checksheets.
• Support the University Assessment Committee (UAC) to ensure program outcome accuracy and consistency on program checksheets.
• Creation and maintenance of guidance on the production of accessible checksheets and other related university curricular items.

• Any other duties assigned within the position classification area.

• Demonstrates an understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion, especially in working relationships with students, faculty, staff and community members.