Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Stanford University · Stanford, California, United States · hybrid
This position has been deemed critical by the School of Engineering Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze.
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Note - Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. All candidates must be eligible to work and live in the U.S.
Work Arrangement: This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement with a minimum of 4 days/week working at the Stanford main campus, subject to operational needs.
Budgeted Salary: The budgeted base salary range for this position is $184,670 to $265,000 per annum.
The School of Engineering
Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. Our faculty and students are creative risk-takers who pursue excellence across a breadth of disciplines. Our alumni include some of the world's most successful leaders in technology and business. Our staff are critical to enabling Stanford Engineering to accomplish its mission: seeking solutions to some of the world's most urgent challenges and educating leaders who will make the world a better place through the power of engineering principles, techniques and systems.
School of Engineering is seeking an Associate Dean of Student Affairs to manage the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) and provide school-wide leadership on student issues. Reporting to the faculty senior associate dean, the associate dean is the senior student affairs staff member in the school, representing Stanford Engineering on university committees and working closely with peers in other schools and with the vice provosts for graduate education, undergraduate education, and student affairs.
OSA manages the school’s fund allocation for teaching assistants (TAs) and graduate fellowships, runs global programs for Stanford students and international students visiting Stanford, oversees the Technical Communication Program, and is responsible for a wide portfolio of student success and engagement initiatives. Within the school, the associate dean works with faculty and departmental student affairs staff to build community, develop and share policy and best practices, help solve student problems, address grievances, and partners with faculty on new and existing programs.
This is an opportunity to shape the experience of undergraduate, coterminal, MS, and PhD students across one of the world’s leading engineering schools, and to serve as a trusted advisor to school leadership on student programs and policy.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience working in a higher education setting.
- Familiarity with the needs of undergraduate, coterminal, MS, and PhD students, including relevant academic policies.
- Ability to work constructively with faculty and staff, as well as with students at all levels of our programs.
Core Duties:
- Direct efforts of managers; develop those in leadership positions
and in the leadership pipeline, make hiring decisions, provide coaching
and mentoring, manage performance, determine staffing needs, develop and
ensure succession planning within area of responsibility.
- Identify, clarify, and resolve complex, highly visible issues
with university-wide scope and strategic impact and substantial
significance which may span multiple areas, using advanced technical and
professional knowledge requiring broad discretion and judgment and
in-depth knowledge of university policies, governance and
priorities.
- Provide strategic direction for and manage a school or a major
function within an academic area, school, or student and campus life,
including responsibility for programs, budget, facilities, and
staff.
- Provide counsel and collaborate with senior leadership, in
long-range planning, policy development, for a school or major
program.
- Work independently to make decisions regarding projects,
programs, and initiatives, with limited or no review by senior
management: commit university resources with limited or no review by
senior officers.
- Manage exceptions to university, program, or unit policies and
procedures; determine appropriate response to settle
grievances.
- Participate in setting the direction of a school’s internal
academic and administrative policy development for programs and
administrative operations. Negotiate and influence on matters of
university-wide impact.
- Serve as senior advisor to dean on programmatic and policy
development. Recommend new internal policies, guidelines and
procedures.
- Manage, interpret, implement and ensure compliance with legal,
financial, university, academic and administrative policies and external
regulations within an organization or program.
- Direct complex, high-visibility process redesign and innovation
projects; Champion major initiatives, develop and drive implementation
of project initiatives.
- Lead, identify and develop priorities for university or
school/department-wide student services initiatives, and outreach
programs.
- Represent school/department programs and initiatives at senior
level meetings, conferences, and to both internal and external
constituents.
- Partner with key individuals from across the university to
determine new and ongoing business and technology initiatives.
Minimum Education and
Experience:
Bachelor’s degree and ten years of relevant experience, or
combination of education and relevant experience. Experience in higher
education setting strongly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- User knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Advanced communication skills to clearly and effectively
communicate information to internal and external audiences, client
groups, and all levels of management.
- Strong analytical skills to review and analyze complex financial
information.
- Strong leadership and strategic management skills.
- Experience managing people.
- Understanding of underlying technological needs and
requirements.
- Ability to establish credibility and effective working
relationships across organization.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively.
- Demonstrated experience with significant and complex
budgetary/financial management.