Overview
The Director for the Capital Strategy and Management will serve as the dedicated program owner and integrator for a transformational $550M capital project designed to advance UT Dallas’s research, innovation, and student learning enterprise.
Reporting to the Convergence Accelerator Project Advocate (the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost), and working closely with the Chief of Operations, Chief Financial Officer, VP for Research and Innovation, and the Office of the President, this role will orchestrate complex workstreams across academic, administrative, and external stakeholder groups to advance the building from conceptualization through completion by 2030.
This is a strategic operations and execution role—not a traditional facilities/construction management position. The ideal candidate brings senior-level experience in large-scale higher education projects, demonstrated capacity to convene diverse stakeholders (especially faculty and deans), and the ability to manage ambiguity across parallel initiatives while maintaining momentum toward critical milestones.
Note to Applicants: Please review the special instructions outlined in the UT Dallas advertisement and ensure all requirements are met prior to submitting your application. https://jobs.utdallas.edu/hr/postings/32430
Duties include:
Program Governance and Steering
- Maintain the integrated master roadmap for the Convergence Accelerator.
- Track milestones, dependencies, risks, owners, and decisions needed.
- Prepare steering committee agendas, materials, dashboards, and follow-up items.
- Maintain a decision log and issue tracker.
- Escalate delays, conflicts, unresolved decisions, and risks to the steering committee.
- Ensure all major workstreams remain aligned to the 2030 opening target.
Program Definition Coordination
Coordinate the process for defining the academic, research, industry, student, and operational requirements that must inform the building. This includes coordinating with functional leaders to define:
- Academic and research priorities
- Faculty hiring and lab assumptions
- Center/institute concepts
- Student Venture Foundry model
- Industry engagement model
- Space and adjacency needs
- Operating model assumptions
- Staffing and launch-readiness needs
Capital Planning and Facilities Coordination
Work with Facilities, Procurement, architects, and other partners to ensure program requirements inform space programming, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and move-in planning.
- Coordinate programmatic inputs into the design process.
- Ensure academic/research requirements are documented before key design decisions.
- Track Facilities-related milestones against the overall project roadmap.
- Identify disconnects between project scope, design assumptions, cost, funding, and program needs.
- Support preparation for CIP, Board, and UT System milestones as needed.
Funding and Approval Alignment
Coordinate with Finance, Development, Government Relations, Facilities, and UT System-facing teams to ensure funding and approval activities remain aligned with the project scope and schedule. This includes tracking:
- CCAP strategy and deadlines
- PUF strategy
- Philanthropic funding needs
- Institutional funding assumptions
- Total project cost development
- CIP and Board approval milestones
- Long-term operating cost considerations
Communication and Documentation
Prepare clear, concise, executive-ready updates for senior leadership. This includes but is not limited to:
- Project dashboards
- Timeline updates
- Risk summaries
- Steering committee materials
- Stakeholder updates
- Briefings for executive leadership
Pay: $150,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
Work Location: In person
