The interim University athletic director created a new position in her administration designed to instill more oversight of business and budget issues in the department.
Jamie Moffitt will fill the role of executive senior athletic director for finance and administration and will oversee the athletic department’s business operations.
Moffitt currently serves as the associate dean of finance and operations at the School of Law. Her new appointment will begin May 1.
University interim athletic director Lorraine Davis said in a press release that the position will address issues and long-term goals within the athletic department. It comes in the wake of a controversial $2.3 million buyout between the University and former athletic director Mike Bellotti, as well as promises from University President Richard Lariviere of more transparency in institutional business practices.
“A key element of Jamie’s role will be asserting the department’s ongoing needs,” Davis said in the press release. “The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has experienced a period of rapid growth and success. This new position will help the department to develop and implement the necessary budgeting, financial, human resource and contractual practices to support this expansion.”
As the associate dean of finance and operations at the law school, Moffitt restructured the financial and budgetary models while improving the school’s human resource and contractual processes, according to the release. Moffitt received her undergraduate economics degree from Harvard, her master’s degree in international business from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and her law degree from the Harvard School of Law.
“I am grateful to Jamie for her willingness to accept this vitally important position. Her experience in finance and operations at the school of law … make her an ideal person to fill this new role,” Davis said in the press release.
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