Executive Director, Student Success Advocacy (A) page is loaded## Executive Director, Student Success Advocacy (A)locations: Coral Gables, FLtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R100090847## **Current Employees:**If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position using the Career worklet, please review this .The University of Miami has an exciting opportunity for an Executive Director, Student Success Advocacy. Capitalizing on the institutional priority to provide a path to graduation, the Executive Director, Student Success Advocacy will oversee a unit charged with promoting undergraduate students’ successful completion from the University. This unit will create a holistic advocacy system that support students’ self-discovery, maximizes UM’s co-curricular, and extra-curricular opportunities, and drives student success to graduation in four years. The Executive Director oversees program development in the areas of undergraduate student retention, risk interventions related to persistence and graduation, as well as strategic operations of student success communication, promotion, and technologies. This role reports to the Senior Associate Dean for Student Success and serves on the Center for Academic Navigation and Success leadership team to create a cohesive academic success network for undergraduate students. **Core Job Functions:**Leads efforts within the Office of Student Success Advocacy and is responsible for designing and implementing student success promotion and attrition prevention programs. Recruits, mentors, supervises, and evaluates Directors, programs, and all subordinate staff members, to ensure program development, assessment and completion of all onboarding activities including but not limited to: peer mentor programs, the GPAim and GPAid programs, and proactive and risk interventions for undergraduate students. Advances and supervises the annual budgets for all assigned program areas. Serves on the EAB Navigate teams and oversees the training and utilization of EAB Navigate and other student success technologies. Collaborates with Institutional Research in accessing data and administering predictive analytics to design and implement strategies, efficiencies, and interventions that improve undergraduate retention, persistence, and completion rates. Cultivates and maintains positive relationships with student, faculty, and staff stakeholders to advance a culture of student success, directing the strategic execution of applicable trainings, professional development opportunities, and targeted, multi-media communications. Works closely with faculty in schools/colleges and senior program staff to help create long-term goals for existing programs. Oversees the undergraduate withdrawal process and creates programs, processes, and policies to minimize undergraduate student attrition. Coordinates and directs seminars, conferences, workshops, and other events for the program. Performs benchmarking studies for applicable programs. Interprets and shares the impact of federal and state legislation on institutional programs. Serves as liaison to external agencies and organizations to further program goals and objectives. Ensures internal control oversight and compliance with laws and regulations, safeguarding of assets, compliance with University policies and procedures, reliability of internal and external reporting, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Creates an effective control environment, conducts risk assessment, implements, and monitors controls.***This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.*****Core Qualifications:****Education:**Master’s Degree in relevant field required, Ph.D. in relevant field preferred**Experience:**Minimum seven (7) years of relevant experience**Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:*** Knowledge of business and management principles.* Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations.* Ability to establish department goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan.* Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.* Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Click for additional information.**Job Status:**Full time**Employee Type:**Staff**Pay Grade:**A14The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit to learn more about our points of pride.The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022.**Transforming lives**With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.The University is committed to fostering a culture of belonging, where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to add value. Through values of Diversity, Integrity, Responsibility, Excellence, Compassion, Creativity, and Teamwork (DIRECCT) the U community works together to create an environment driven by purpose, excellence, community, and service. #J-18808-Ljbffr