Associate Director for Planning

Associate Director for Planning

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Associate Director for Planning in the office of the Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost will lead support for the operations, projects, and key work streams on behalf of the SVC across the global network. The Associate Director will work closely with the SVC and their leadership team to manage central workstreams and operations, ensuring that core work and projects are successfully managed and executed. The Associate Director will lead planning and project efforts in addition to supporting the overall administration through project strategy, budget development and implementation, planning. The Associate Director in this position will also oversee the planning and implementation of various events, programs and other initiatives across the global network. In addition, this position will work closely with the Director of Communications to coordinate communication efforts across of the SVC's portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred
• 6 or more years experience working in an executive environment, preferably in higher education
• 6 or more years collaboratively working in a team environment
• Demonstrated experience managing operations, projects and budgets
• Demonstrated experience with event planning, in particular large-scale events, as well as project management; formal project management certification(s) preferred
• Strong writing ability required)
• Ability to solve problems creatively and strategically, while using professional judgment and discretion
• Ability to be flexible, agile, and adaptive
• Strong time management and organization skills

Salary Grade:
12

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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