Assistant Director, Academic Resources & Student Affairs

The MBA and Master's Programs Office is seeking a dedicated Assistant Director, Academic Resources & Student Affairs to provide support to students in MBA and Master's Programs, coordinate student co-curricular programs that foster teamwork, leadership, and help develop their communication skills. In addition to providing broad support for student service functions, such as advising students, creating communications, event planning, and providing support for students in a variety of ways. Your work will directly impact students' success and development. The person in this role will primarily work with the Executive MBA (EMBA) & Professional MBA (PMBA) programs.

The person in this role will:

• Partner with key stakeholders in the Wisconsin School of Business to implement student facing programming that develops students' leadership, teamwork, and communication skills.

• Create content for canvas courses designed for new incoming student cohorts, current student cohorts and faculty.

• Assist with planning new student orientation and residencies for EMBA & PMBA students.

• Assist with planning student advisory board meetings organized by the MBA and Master's Program Office and work with students who will be participating to support their success.

• Support experiential learning in the EMBA & PMBA programs to ensure students are successful on consulting projects.

• Travel with students on global badge programs to experiential learning site visits as needed.

• Advise and monitor degree progress for a caseload of students in our graduate programs.

• Coordinate procurement, logistics, and academic support for the curriculum and faculty for in-person weekend programming and online courses weekly.

• Support and be on hand for office-wide events and additional programing for students.

• Advise and track degree progress for a case load of students in our graduate programs

• Organizes and manages the onboarding of incoming student cohorts to ensure they receive adequate preparation for their degree programs

• May monitor the program budget and approve expenditures

• May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees

• Plans, organizes, administers, and manages processes and operations related to assigned area(s) of responsibility

• Advises and enforces Institution policies related to services in Student Affairs

• Serves as the program or unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups

• Monitors, evaluates, and modifies processes, procedures, and/or standards, ensuring alignment with the Institution's mission, values, goals, and objectives, as well as all local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

• Schedules logistics and secures resources to support the operational plans of the program or unit

Wisconsin School of Business, MBA and Master's Programs

The starting salary for the position is $58,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

The employee in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at (https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/).

• 2 years of professional work experience

• 3 years of professional work experience in academic advising, student affairs, student services, career services, education or a related field and preferably with adult learners.

• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders (students/faculty/staff, university administrators, alumni, industry partners, etc.)

• Creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

• Appreciation and understanding of the unique and diverse needs of international students.

• Cultural competency in working effectively with diverse communities.

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to work independently and to solve problems

Bachelor's degree required

Click the "Apply" button to start the application process.

You will be prompted to upload the following documents:

• Resume

• Letter of Qualification

Applicants should attach a letter of qualifications and resume detailing their training and experience relating to the required and preferred qualifications referenced above. The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine which qualified applicants will advance in the recruitment process. The search committee will review all application materials after the posted deadline. We will notify selected applicants to participate further in the selection process directly. References will be requested of final candidates. All applicants will be notified after the search is complete and a candidate has been selected.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

The application deadline is 11:59pm on September 1, 2025.

Se Ann Yang

se.yang@wisc.edu

608-263-2975
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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