Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations

Facilities Leadership & Planning

• Provide administrative oversight for all Athletics events and facilities, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality operations.

• Partner with campus units and external vendors to coordinate scheduling, maintenance, and operational logistics.

• Play a key role in long-term facilities planning efforts in collaboration with Athletics and university leadership.

• Play a key role in planning and implementing capital projects, renovations, and facility upgrades.

• Ensure facilities operations align with budget parameters and fan/student-athlete experience goals.

Event Operations Management

• Oversee planning and execution of all home athletic events and play a prominent role to help secure and support management & operational oversight of special events such as concerts and other large-scale gatherings held in Athletics’ venues.

• Ensure compliance with safety regulations, NCAA standards, and institutional policies.

• Coordinate with campus departments, public safety, marketing, and external partners to ensure seamless event execution.

• Implement best practices to enhance game-day operations and customer service.

• Review & approve all contest agreements prior to execution/signing.

• Serve as the primary administrator responsible for ensuring competitions across all sport programs are contracted & scheduled to minimize overlap and increase fan attendance.

Sport Program Administration

• Provide direct sport supervision for programs assigned by the Director of Athletics.

• Ensure sports programs align with departmental values, competitive standards, fiscal expectations, and student-athlete welfare priorities.

• Support coach development, strategic planning, and program evaluation.

• Monitor operational needs and resource allocation for assigned sports.

• Assist the Athletic Business Office and Athletic Equipment staff in planning, managing, and monitoring athletic equipment purchases to ensure fiscal responsibility and alignment with approved budget parameters.

• Collaborate with the Athletics Business Office to regularly conduct sport-by-sport cost & revenue analysis, and to help centralize sport programs purchasing.

• In collaboration with the Athletic Business Office, annually provide budget and fiscal management training for head coaches and sport program budget managers.

Cross Department Collaboration

• Work closely with the Assistant AD for Finance & Business Operations and the athletic business office to ensure facilities and event operations remain within approved budgets.

• Collaborate with compliance, academics, development, marketing, and external relations units to support holistic program success.

Supervision & Leadership

• Lead and develop staff responsible for facilities operations and event management.

• Establish operational standards and performance metrics.

• Foster a culture of teamwork, accountability, and service excellence.

• Lead quarterly meetings of all sport supervisors to discuss key issues.

• Possess a strong understanding of the athletics department’s culture and expectations to effectively identify and address critical issues that may arise.

• Conduct and analyze end-of-season student-athlete surveys and report findings to the Executive Leadership Team.

Strategic Planning

• Contribute to departmental strategic planning initiatives related to facilities growth, special event expansion, and sport program competitiveness.

• Support conference transition strategies and infrastructure alignment.