Associate Director

Associate Director
9756BR
Provost
University Advising Office

Job Summary
RIT’s strategic goals related to academic success, retention, and the timely graduation of undergraduate students are a high priority for the university. This position is instrumental in coordinating, implementing, and evaluating the interventions for and outreach to students enabled through the predictive analytics initiative. The Associate Director serves as the primary point of contact for workflow, troubleshooting, and process improvements associated with outreach and interventions informed by predictive modeling. Additionally, it serves as the central point of contact for interventions related to some of our most at-risk student populations.

Job Responsibilities:
The Associate Director will work collaboratively within the University Advising Office team, and will partner with the colleges as well as the Registrar, Institutional Research and Policy Studies, Access, Engagement & Success, and Student Affairs to drive coordination of interventions for student success. The Associate Director will use student success data to inform interventions, with a specific focus on student sub-populations identified through RIT’s predictive analytics data, including first year students. The work will include documenting the measurable results of those improvement efforts as well as communicating with internal and external stakeholders. This position will help colleges with processes to identify, implement, and/or refer students to the appropriate interventions and resources to advance student success.
The Associate Director will help to build processes to document intervention and outreach,and identify ways to aggregate and report data related to these initiatives in support of student success and retention goals.
Other key functions include:

• Developing and maintaining a current understanding of national best practices and emerging initiatives in student success.
• Researching successful initiatives at other institutions and provide recommendations for greater coordination among departments and workflow improvements within Academic Affairs and partner units.

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the implementation of the Academic Affairs undergraduate predictive analytics initiative specific to retention and graduation
  • Partner with colleges, Office of the Registrar, Institutional Research, Access, Engagement, & Success, and Student Affairs on the graduation rate predictive analytics initiative, including the design of interventions, outreach, and training across the colleges.
  • Work closely with university partners to develop business practices related to access to information, communication of information, and other risk management concerns.
  • Serve as primary point of contact for workflow, troubleshooting, documentation, and process improvements.
  • Build and maintain an inventory of student success interventions across RIT colleges and map them to risk factors they seek to address.
  • Recommend modifications to processes, policies, and systems that impact student success; engage academic affairs leadership and campus stakeholders as appropriate.
  
  
• Assist in identifying and employing academic recovery strategies for colleges to use with first year and at-risk students to promote success.
  • Act as the First Year Academic Advocate for students who the colleges have identified as needing more support, guidance and intervention than their academic advisor can offer due to caseload challenges and time constraints.
    • Coordinate training and outreach, provide direct student contact for students referred, maintain documentation.
    
    
  • Represent Academic Affairs on the Student Behavior Consultation Team and coordinate information from the advising teams/academic departments as appropriate.
    • Outreach to advisors/colleges and documentation in preparation for both weekly meetings. Attend 2x weekly meetings on behalf of Academic Affairs, follow up and provide additional documentation as needed after each of the meetings.
    
    
  • Review cases of first year students when SBCT is closing for possible Academic Advocacy referrals
  
  
• Act as a liaison between the University Advising Office and New Student Orientation to help foster communication, build messaging, and strengthen processes to support our incoming first year students.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience of effective leadership and management in student success and support initiatives and services in higher education
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to build collaborative relationships among a wide range of constituency groups
• Effective consensus building skills
• Ability to motivate and mobilize cross-functional teams related to student success initiatives
• Effective communication (interpersonal and written) skills
• Significant experience with student success initiatives
• Experience with software tools
• Ability to analyze data and utilize results

Preferred Qualifications:

Department/College Description
The University Advising Office leads RIT’s undergraduate academic advising program and strategic student success initiatives to consistently support students’ academic success, persistence towards educational and career goals, and on-time graduation. The associate director reports to the director of the University Advising Office.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience of effective leadership and management in student success and support initiatives and services in higher education
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to build collaborative relationships among a wide range of constituency groups
• Effective consensus building skills
• Ability to motivate and mobilize cross-functional teams related to student success initiatives
• Effective communication (interpersonal and written) skills
• Significant experience with student success initiatives
• Experience with software tools
• Ability to analyze data and utilize results

Professional Area:
Employment Category: Fulltime
Staff Job Function: Wage Band: $52300 – $87600
Hourly/Salary Minimum: $52300
Hourly/Salary Maximum: $87600

How to Apply
In order to be considered for this position, you must apply for it at: http://careers.rit.edu/staff. Click the link for search openings and in the keyword search field, enter the title of the position or the BR number.

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Additional Details

Rochester Institute of Technology, the 10th largest private university in the U.S., is among the worlds leading technological universities. Its 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries are enrolled in over 200 academic programs, including 7 interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs. A pioneer in experiential education, RIT was the first to offer undergraduate degree programs in biotechnology, information technology, software engineering, and microelectronic engineering. As home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the university offers unparalleled academic opportunities and services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Founded in 1829, RIT has 115,000 alumni throughout the United States and around the world. RIT has been named by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “Great Colleges to Work For.” RIT is a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation site, and is responsive to the needs of dual-career couples through the Upstate NY Higher Education Recruitment Consortium. For more information, visit www.rit.edu/overview/rankings-and-recognition and www.rit.edu.

As a member of the RIT community employees receive a well-balanced benefits package that offers a variety of choices and access to additional employment advantages. These benefits, combined with an employees pay, provide a total compensation package that can be tailored to meet your needs. More on RITs Benefits, Health & Wellness program can be found at: https://www.rit.edu/fa/humanresources/content/benefits-health-and-wellness

RIT does not discriminate. RIT is an equal opportunity employer that promotes and values diversity, pluralism, and inclusion. For more information or inquiries, please visit RIT/TitleIX or the U.S. Department of Education at ED.Gov

Hourly/Salary Minimum: 52300
Hourly/Salary Maximum:87600

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