Associate Director Strategy & Operations Full-time Job

As a member of the career advising team, the Associate Director provides career advising to undergraduate students. In a generalist capacity, he/she will support students with career related queries including global job/internship search, career exploration, interviewing and networking, as well as resume/CV and cover letter reviews. In a more specialist capacity, he/she will provide more in-depth feedback about careers, building partnerships with local and global organizations and orienting students to career possibilities and networks.

With an eye for engaging every student, the Associate Director will oversee, in close collaboration with the Director, the assessment and communication functions of the CDC, harnessing these functions to build a cohesive and clear strategy for the office. He/she co-leads the assessment efforts of the team, including goals/mission/vision, supervising the Research and Special Projects Coordinator, ensuring that the data collected about our studentsinterests and placements driven data-based decisions. He/she is responsible for orchestrating the delivery of the Life Beyond Saadiyat report, curated from the CDC first destination survey. He/she also supports the storytelling and communications efforts of the office, amplifying narratives that support a broad definition of success, and directly supervising the communications coordinator. In tandem with assessment and communications efforts, they will proactively consider how technology can be utilized to reach a broader audience in a meaningful way.

Programmatically, the Associate Director oversees the on-campus student employment portfolio, ensuring a strong system for work experience on campus, equitable access to opportunities, and strong feedback mechanisms. Also on-campus, he/she will spearhead the CDC’s partnership network with on-campus stakeholders, ensuring that all parts of the NYUAD ecosystem are aligned about supporting student futures. The Associate Director of Strategy & Operations reports to the Director of the Career Development Center. As a key member of the leadership team, the Associate Director oversees the cross functional areas of communications and assessment for the Center. A storyteller of the full-cycle student experience, the Associate Director leads the implementation of a communications strategy to amplify the programs, initiatives, and outcomes of the Career Development Center across the campus community and with external stakeholders. The Associate Director also oversees the on-campus student employment portfolio, ensuring a strong system for work experience on campus, equitable access to opportunities, and strong feedback mechanisms.

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanitys shared challenges.
Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership.
It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.
NYUAD advances NYU as a model university for the 21st century and contributes in multiple ways to the development of a sustainable, knowledge-based economy in Abu Dhabi.
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