Samantha Drobinski

Assistant Registrar & Deputy Faculty Director of Operations, Strategic Operations Office (HoD)

Departmental Activities (80%)

Financial

• Setting the budget and financial forecasting
• Monitoring spend against core budget
• Monitoring Research Net Contribution against forecast and distribution to staff
• Monitoring X project accounts
• Approving orders
• Approving expenses

Strategic Planning

• Strategic plan and forecasting of planned student numbers and income
• Departmental financial policy
• Monitoring of workload model and MyPublications data capture

Committee Membership

• Member of the Policy Committee
• Member of the Research and Postgraduate Committee
• Member of the Executive Committee
• Member of the Finance Committee
• Member of the Teaching Committee
• Member of Academic Staff Meeting
• Member of the SRDS promotions/ECA Panel

Current Projects

• Roll out of requisitioning
• Departmental financial support review
• SRDS analysis and recommendations implementation
• Various university working groups; concentrating on development of student application enhancements to IT systems and new system development (eg. E-files)

Faculty Activities (20%)

• Cover for Faculty Director of Operations
• Taking the lead on designated faculty project, including:
  • Managing phase A of the Bioincubator move
  • Support staff development
  • Understanding costs working group
  • Faculty incident plan
  • Faculty Executive Board
  • Chair of the MEC/CIV Finance Cluster