BUSINESS OFFICER INSTITUTE

Another training program, the UC Business Officer Institute, is next scheduled from Monday through Thursday, Oct. 21-24, in Irvine.

Nominations from the Davis campus are due by Wednesday, Aug. 21. (The deadline has already passed for nominations from the UC Davis Health System.)

The Business Officer Institute was established in recognition of the critical role that business officers play in a rapidly changing business environment characterized by localized decision-making authority, increased regulatory interest and oversight, emphasis on risk-taking and innovation, and increased complexity.

Candidates are those who have broad decision-making and/or supervisory responsibilities for the control environment, financial management, budget, risk management, imformation technology, sponsored projects or human resources, in academic or administrative departments.

Candidates must be classified at the Professional and Support Staff (PSS) level or the Managers and Senior Professionals (MSP) level to be eligible. People who have attended before, in either Northern or Southern California, are not eligible to attend again.

UCOP covers all program and group meal costs (breakfasts, lunches and breaks), as well as the opening reception dinner on Oct. 21. UCOP will not cover the cost of travel, parking, hotel expenses of $149 per night, or independent dinners on Oct. 22 and 23.

Davis campus nominations should be submitted on this form, to be delivered to Marla Dolcini, of Staff Development and Professional Services, by email, mtdolcini@ucdavis.edu, or fax, (530) 752-4744. SDPS is in the Heitman Staff Learning Center.

Davis and Sacramento campus employees are being recruited for a new training program for future administrators, as Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and other officials set out to bolster the university’s succession planning and employee engagement.

This effort comes as:

• More than 30 percent of UC Davis’ administrative leaders are within a year of becoming retirement-eligible.
• The knowledge gap widens between these administrators and their prospective internal replacement candidates.

“We need to prepare emerging leaders for positions where attrition and demographics pose an imminent loss of knowledge and talent,” said Susan Gilbert, associate vice chancellor of Human Resources.

And, by doing so, UC Davis can meet its leadership needs as a world-class institution.

Gilbert said the Davis campus’s Staff Development and Professional Services and the UC Davis Health System’s Training and Development unit are collaborating to design an array of talent development programs to support the UC Davis mission.

The first program is Administrative Officers for the Future, or AOFTF, for high potential employees — specifically targeting those with career status in PSS (Professional and Support Staff) Grades 2 through 8.

The intensive, seven-month program features cohort-style training, to include professional assessment and action planning; competency-based, facilitated sessions; and high level project work culminating in presentations to project sponsors, Davis campus and UC Davis Health System leaders.

Nominations or applications will be accepted from Aug. 19 to Sept. 12. Application materials and more information are available online.

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