Senior Director, Nonprofit and Civic Engagement Programs

Job title:

Senior Director, Nonprofit and Civic Engagement Programs

Company

University of Chicago

Job description

Department
Booth Rustandy Center: Strategic Growth and PartnershipsAbout the Department
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University’s core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas – the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.Job Summary
The Senior Director, Nonprofit and Civic Engagement Programs, is a senior member of the Rustandy staff, working to ensure that a long-term strategy and diverse set of programs and initiatives are designed and executed to successfully reach the center’s mission. As the contours of the social sector expand, so too have the Center’s programs. To forge strategic synergies among the suite of programs that engage with external nonprofits and government organizations, we seek a strategic leader who can look across and identify opportunities to deliver meaning and richness to the Center’s stakeholders, including but not limited to the Office of Civic Engagement, Harris, Crown, Urban Labs, and more. This role will encompass leadership of nonprofit, civic engagement, and career programming for Booth students and alumni, coupled with oversight of externally facing, global NGO/nonprofit programs in strategic geographies where Booth has campuses, including Chicago’s Golub Capital Social Impact Lab and Hong Kong’s, Hong Kong Jockey Club Programme on Social Innovation.Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction and oversight that balances nonprofit capacity-building and student and alumni development opportunities.
• Develops and leads strategic outreach to nonprofit organizations to grow the pipeline of students from these sectors, increase the number of nonprofits aware of and engaged with the Rustandy Center’s capacity-building resources both to provide those resources and enhance student learning. Capacity-building programs include and are not limited, to Board Fellows, Alumni Board Connect, Golub Capital Social Impact Lab – IGNITE and annual lecture, public programs and events the Hong Kong Jockey Club Programme on Social Innovation
• Partners with Marketing and program leads on strategy that reflects a comprehensive view of program offerings across the Center.
• Enables students to explore many possibilities for engaging in the social sector, including via experiential learning, skills-based volunteer opportunities, and efforts to pursue social sector careers.
• Oversees growth of Board Fellows, Civic Engagement programs, career-related programs in philanthropy, government, nonprofit leadership, and beyond.
• Leads strategy for and relationships with executives in residence in these areas by recruiting and leading these relationships, including identifying new areas in which expertise is required.
• Equips alumni with opportunities to contribute to the nonprofit sector via nonprofit board service and through careers.
• Continues to broaden reach using virtual and hybrid programming.
• Identifies new opportunities to help those working in the sector – both paid and unpaid – to continue to advance their efforts using Booth resources and network.
• Advances efforts to attract social sector leaders to Chicago Booth’s degree programs through leadership of Civic Scholars.
• Leads strategy for scholarship support for social sector leaders at Booth.
• Leads programming for Civic Scholars, and serves as point of contact for Civic Scholars across the school, including to students and colleagues in Admissions, Student Life, and Financial Aid.
• Builds and maintains alumni network.
• Delivers leadership opportunities to students via oversight of Booth’s role in UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars Program at Chicago Booth.
• Oversees the Rustandy Center Hong Kong team delivering the Hong Kong Jockey Club Programme on Social Innovation (HKJCPSI) which provides resources and programs to help the city’s NGOs, nonprofit leaders, and social entrepreneurs do their best work and is a critical piece of a philanthropic grant agreement in Hong Kong.
• Navigates and strengthens the relationship between Chicago and Hong Kong, working with a variety of Chicago Booth and university stakeholders.
• Ensures all KPIs are met and partners closely with HKJCPSI stakeholders on annual and triennial reporting on $30 Million gift.
• Oversees the team leading the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab to leverage the resources of the University of Chicago and provide guidance on program scaling and execution.
• Leverages curricular development across Golub Capital Social Impact Lab and HKJCPSI to the benefit of both programs, developing relationships with faculty and practitioners to teach in these programs.
• Works with HK-based director on Center’s entire suite of global programming, identifying opportunities in key markets that advance both the Center and the School’s priorities with a focus on strategic use of resources, partners, and faculty travel.
• Represents the Center in a wide variety of University and public settings, including with students, alumni, social sector leaders, University faculty and administrators, and cultivates and stewards donors.
• Develops priorities, continually allocates and re-allocates resources, assesses impact, and determines project and team direction based on the center’s goals.
• Manages three distinct teams, including multiple directors and associate directors.
• Manages managers and professional staff by establishing annual performance goals, allocating resources, assessing performance, and recommending individual merit and/or promotional increases.
• Works strategically to create partnering and collaboration opportunities with student groups, faculty members, alumni and various offices across campus to drive and coordinate programming strategies to ensure a consistent message for engaging students and parents throughout their time in school and post-graduation.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum QualificationsEducation: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.—
Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline.—
Certifications:—Preferred QualificationsEducation:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Master’s degree.
• MBA.

Experience:

• A minimum ten years of experience managing large-scale projects and developing programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and leading programs for MBA students and alumni.
• Developing programs focused on the nonprofit sector.
• Managing staff and building collaborative inclusive teams.
• Demonstrated experience with and passion for the social impact and nonprofit sectors.

Preferred Competencies

• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including developing strategic plans against a vision and ability to engage stakeholders from multiple organizations to achieve plans.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills, characterized by the ability to listen, speak, and write well.
• Proven track record of developing and managing multiple complex projects concurrently.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and diplomatically with internal and external stakeholders, build and steward relationships, and adapt to working with students, alumni, staff, faculty, and social impact professionals.
• Proven ability to seek out, coordinate, and appropriately disseminate information.

Working Conditions

• This position is currently expected to work a minimum three days per week in the office.
• Travel between Hyde Park campus and downtown Chicago.
• Occasional travel domestically or internationally.
• Flexibility to work late or start early for Rustandy Center events, as well as attend events on weekends. Approximately one evening on a weekly basis and one weekend on a monthly basis, especially Sept – Nov, Jan – Mar, Apr – May.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.Job Family
Student Affairs & ServicesRole Impact
People ManagerFLSA Status
ExemptPay Frequency
MonthlyScheduled Weekly Hours
37.5Benefits Eligible
YesDrug Test Required
NoHealth Screen Required
NoMotor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
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Location

Chicago, IL

Job date

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 01:15:56 GMT

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