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About Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members:

• Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

• Texas A&M AgriLife Research

• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University

• Texas A&M Forest Service

• Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.

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The Business Coordinator III for the Center for Managed Technology Services (CMTS), provides advanced support and coordination of complex business, financial, and operational activities with minimal supervision. Responsibilities include reviewing and approving service-related documents, managing accounts, monitoring service-center utilization, and reporting on cost-recovery budgets and overall operational performance. The position supports CMTS as a proactive managed IT services and research support service center, requiring strong analytical capability, experience with enterprise financial systems, and the ability to coordinate across technical teams, researchers, leadership, and partner institutions. The role plays a key part in ensuring staffing, budget, and capacity decisions are aligned to service demand through ongoing utilization analysis and forecasting.

• Approves and audits CMTS vouchers, requisitions, and reconciliations; monitors budgets, service-block utilization, revenue, and cost recovery; prepares monthly and annual financial and operational reports.

• Coordinates annual fiscal year closing and planning, proposing solutions for complex financial, operational, and compliance with limited direct supervision.

• Oversee cash handling, purchasing, invoices, and inventory processes; manages transactions in FAMIS, AggieBuy, iPayment, and Emburse; maintains records per retention policy.

• Continuously analyzes service-center utilization, workload trends, and block consumption to support forecasting, capacity planning, and staffing/budget decisions.

• Generate operational and performance reports, dashboards, and analyses using Canopy, Power BI, or other CMTS tools.

• Serves as liaison with finance, payroll, procurement, HR, and other units; develops, audits, and refines business procedures; advises leadership on policy, compliance, and operational impacts.

• Supports contracts, service agreements, grants, and sponsored research, including budget preparation and review for PIs and research programs.

• Develops complex financial, operational, and statistical analyses; composes standard and ad hoc reports and business correspondence.

• Participates in planning and monitoring CMTS programs, including managed IT services, research infrastructure, data environments, applications, and workstation support.

• Trains staff on procedures, interprets policies, and promotes continuous process improvement.

• May supervise CMTS staff or student workers, including hiring, onboarding, training, workload coordination, and performance oversight.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Four years of related experience in business operations, finance, accounting, service-center administration, or complex administrative support roles.

• Advanced proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, and enterprise financial, procurement, and expense systems (FAMIS, AggieBuy, Emburse, iPayment); skilled in reporting and dashboard tools such as Canopy.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience collaborating across technical teams, faculty, leadership, and external partners.

• Excellent planning, organizational, analytical, and forecasting abilities; interprets utilization, capacity, and financial data to guide staffing and budget decisions.

• Able to multitask, manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume service-center and research support environment.

• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.

Applicant Instructions: Include a Resume, Cover Letter, and References with your application.

Salary: Pay Grade 10 (Compensation will be commensurate to selected hire’s experience.)

Note: Flexible Work Arrangements: Flexible work schedule and remote work may be available for this position, pending employee eligibility requirements are met in accordance with AgriLife Alternate Work Location Procedures.

Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife?

When you choose to work for Texas A&M AgriLife, you become part of an organization that is an established leader in agriculture and life sciences with a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of our statewide, national, and international constituents.

In addition, Texas A&M AgriLife offers a comprehensive benefit package including the following:

• Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums 

• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays  

• Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month

• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas  

• Employee Wellness Initiative for Texas A&M AgriLife

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.