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Associate Director, Student Success and Advising Overview
- Work Type: Professional
- Job Code: 75444
- Pay Grade: P10
- FLSA Status: Exempt
- Career Level: Assistant Director
- Family: Student Services
- Function: Academic Advising/Student Support
Purpose
Provides Strategic vision and directs all student success and advising activities. Leads through subordinate managers a complex organization with multiple functional teams and complex processes. Provides broad, administrative direction with responsibility for providing strategic leadership and direction in the planning, implementing, improving and evaluating of operations and processes.
Level Scope
Manages a large team typically consisting of both experienced professionals and subordinate managers. Focuses on tactical and operational plans with short to mid-term focus; significant responsibility to achieve broadly stated goals through subordinate managers. Determines objectives, directs programs, develops strategies and policies, manages human, financial, and physical resources, and functions with a high degree of autonomy. Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead project or program teams in one department/job family. Proactively assesses risk to establish systems and procedures to protect organizational assets. Determines campus strategies for a program with campus wide impact.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years experience including 3 years managerial experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience leading, managing, and retaining motivated and team-oriented staff and creating
a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven, and interactive environment.
- Ability to analyze, resolve, and develop long-term solutions to a wide variety of complex and unpredictable problems.
- Skills to prepare clear, concise and informative reports, correspondence and other written materials.
- Ability to generate, cultivate and maintain business relationships with the corporate community, maintain a high level of communication skills and work well with a diverse group of people.
- Must be able to work independently, make decisions and problem solve.
- Strong organizational skills including the ability to prioritize and manage complex
organizational systems and processes. Highly accurate with a large number of details.
Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and remain flexible to rapidly
changing priorities in a highly collaborative environment.
Essential Functions
Key Responsibilities
60% of Time the Associate Director, Student Success and Advising must:
- Direct comprehensive advising for student services, and student support for online programs and online and adult students.
- Direct all complex and multidimensional services provided to current students admitted and enrolled in online and flex programs.
- Direct efforts to meet or exceed enrollment, retention and graduation benchmarks.
- Direct the tracking of online program active and enrolled students and delivery of timely and effective reports.
- Demonstrate a strong ability to manage, coordinate, and deliver on concepts and information to effectively maximize the university’s brand.
- Collaborate closely with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external, on all aspects of projects.
- Foster direct and strategic partnerships with and in support of academic departments developing and/or executing online programs, student services offices, university leadership and community partners
35% of Time the Associate Director, Student Success and Advising
Determined by department needs
5% of Time the Associate Director, Student Success and Advising
Perform other duties as assigned
Work Environment and Physical Demands
Some positions may involve frequent bending, moving, lifting, and carrying material weighing up to 50 pounds; some positions may involve moving, lifting, and carrying material weighing up to 70 pounds; standing up to eight hours each day; working in all weather conditions; exposure to high noise levels and requiring wearing hearing protection.
Travel Requirement
Not applicable for Associate Director, Student Success and Advising
Career Path
Additional training/education or equivalent experience, as well as business need, are required for movement into higher level jobs.
Disclaimer
Incumbents must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work. Final employment offers are contingent upon a Final Candidate’s successful completion of a Background Verification, and a determination by the University that the information derived from the Background Verification does not disqualify the individual. In addition, a Financial History Check and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) Check may be required.