Assistant Director - Student Athletes

  Collegiate Sports (MD)
  Northeast Region
  Administration/Management
  Posted/Updated: 09/16/20

Job Summary

 

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Develop a vision, strategy, and plan that builds on the strategy of integrating life design, alumni connections, employer engagement, experiential learning, and mentoring into the academic and co-curricular learning experience for students and alumni from under-represented communities.
  • Plan and execute courses, workshops, programs, content, and digital resources to help students and alumni achieve their life ambitions.
  • Engage with faculty, alumni, and employers to increase mentoring, experiential learning, and career opportunities for students and alumni.
  • Maintain and strategize ongoing development of Fellows Program for Student Athletes and Coaches.
  • Maintain and strategize support of mentorship for FLI/URM student athletes.
  • Cultivate and strengthen relationships with colleagues across units, including, but not limited to, academic departments, academic advising, life design lab, alumni relations, and international services.
  • Recommend and develop tools and resources for faculty to enhance their mentoring experience of students and alumni.
  • Customize offerings and approaches given unique needs of students and alumni based on areas of academic interests.
  • Scale efforts for a positive life design and professional development experience for all student athletes, with special attention to under-represented and first generation and limited incoming communities.
  • Develop strategic relationships with key academic leaders (deans, vice deans, program directors, faculty, etc.) to facilitate continuous needs assessment and the effective implementation of life design and professional development for students and alumni.
  • Meet regularly with administrators at the university whose offices also provide career and life design as well as mentoring and employer engagement to encourage coordination and identify the intersections of programs and initiatives.
  • Coordinate with the office of institutional research to collect, analyze, and report outcomes data relative to students and alumni having a satisfactory experience and achieving their life ambitions. 
  • Engage in social media, digital outlets, and academic and professional journals and associations to establish an exciting brand, tell the story, and serve as a thought leader at the University and in higher education.

 

The Ideal Candidate (very important)

  • The ideal candidate is comfortable with co-working and flexible work arrangements.
  • Our educators work within multiple offices and spaces on campus.
  • Rather than assigning office or desk spaces to our teams, we have modernized our approach and assigned laptops and cell phones and expect that our teams can work from anywhere for the purpose of scaling our impact across the institution.
  • For this model to work, the ideal candidate must present excellent skills in relationship development and engaging audiences in groups and via social media and digital outlets.
  • The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, data and outcomes driven, strong in planning and execution, comfortable leading programs and interventions with groups, and enjoys developing relationships and connections with multiple stakeholders at once.
  • Our new vision is focused on scalability of resources and services and does not utilize a one-on-one appointment model.
  • For this transformation to work, traditional one-on-one counseling and coaching services are taking a backseat to a culture of scalable programs and interventions.
  • Educators who thrive as counselors, advisors, and coaches and do not enjoy the intense focus on scalability and metrics may not be the best fit for this organization.
  • The ideal candidate is an effective user of social media and digital outlets to engage multiple audiences, strengthen individual and organizational brand, scale impact, and influence public opinion.
  • Candidates who are not comfortable with the utilization of social media in a professional environment may not be a good fit for this organization.

 

Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):

  • Master’s degree required.
  • 3 years recent direct experience within a higher education, government, non-profit, or corporate setting.
  • Strong multicultural competency; extensive experience and working knowledge in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • The successful candidate will have proven leadership skills, knowledge of highly selective college or university settings and has familiarity with operations of the world of work and university networks.

 



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