Description
Plans and supervises horticultural programs and participates in botanical research projects. Develops and leads a team of collections and natural areas specialists, custodial, and facility staff in the stewardship, maintenance and enhancement of collections, and the support of the teaching, research, and outreach activities of the institution's botanical gardens and arboretum. Supervises the greenhouse operating programs and grounds management activities. Assists in the development of the strategic plan, budgets, and administrative support of the department's initiatives. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.