Assistant Director, Project Management

NYU Abu Dhabi

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee Student Affairs Candidate Weekend involvement (and other student recruitment related events), collaborating with SAEL to ensure appropriate staff involvement
• Coordinate divisional input into institution wide events like Open Day as needed
• Design and facilitate divisional gatherings to include representation from around the division, ensure ongoing learning, cross-departmental relationship building, and that we advance our divisional priorities
• Provide support for Marhabteen, a re-orientation program for students
• Coordinate and implement divisional onboarding and continuing L&OD practices

Data & Assessment

• Track with an annual divisional assessment cycle including program level learning outcomes, departmental goals, and external KPIs
• Support departmental level data collection and assessment efforts through coaching, upskilling, templates and troubleshooting
• Develop and share reports on student engagement, key departmental subgroups, or learning outcomes as outlined in divisional annual priorities
• Curate exploratory analysis, inclusive of focus groups, as needed
• Track with key student behaviors in line with the Flourishing Framework and Violet Ready competencies throughout the year, identifying early intervention opportunities to leadership
• Coordinate data analysis team of graduate students for data cleaning and initial analysis
• Ensure completion of mandatory trainings and requirements is appropriately tracked and documented

Capacity Building

• Enhance the data fluency of the division via Tableau dashboards for key decision markers
• Upskill teams or individual staff in project management skills to enable them to achieve their goals
• Liaise with the IR team on accreditation and other institutional priorities
• Liase with L&OD and HR teams for recruitment, onboarding and continuing education processes

Communications & Reporting

• Produce an annual Student Engagement Impact Report, charting the influence of Student Affairs involvement in low retention and high graduation rates
• Take the lead on the External Relations & Communications Monthly Report, ensuring it is completed accurately and on time each month
• Strengthen divisional storytelling strategy NYUAD with counterparts across the division and university, as well as externally, in collaboration with External Relations & Communications
• Assist with divisional brand management and alignment with institutional communications guidance
• Project manage regular email updates from leadership to the division, that ensure consolidated and clear communication re. updates, changes, etc.
• Ensure the accurate and timely updating of Student Portal and External website content, flagging inconsistencies to content owners

Other duties as assigned