Early College Program Associate
- Employer
- Bard College
- Location
- Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
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- Administrative Jobs
- Technology, Analysts & Programming
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Bard Early College at Houde Academy is a new academic partnership, established in 2017, that places a Bard College course of study within an emerging high school in Shenzhen, China. The Bard Early College (BEC) enrolls high school students in a full-time course of study in the liberal arts and sciences, led by Bard College faculty who are active in their fields. Students in the Bard Early College will gain an extraordinary preparation for rigorous and rewarding undergraduate study in international colleges and universities. We are now celebrating the extraordinary success of our first full graduating class, with fully 100% of our students offered matriculation opportunities at highly respected US, UK, Hong Kong and Australian institutions of higher education. This partnership builds on Bard College’s pioneering role in expanding opportunities for intellectually inspiring college study to younger students. Bard currently leads nine early college campuses across the United States. The Assistant will serve as an employee of Houde Academy, under the independent supervision of the Bard Early College at Houde Academy leadership.
Assist the Bard Early College Houde Director/College Representative
BEC seeks a Program Associate to enable and complement the work of the Director and Dean of Studies, with a primary focus on administrative assistance to the Dean of Studies. The Associate will begin in June 2019. The responsibilities of the Associate include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting the Dean of Studies to produce course lists and timetables, and maintaining the database on course offerings, student registrations and student grade reports.
- Preparation of the academic and organizational materials as needed by the Dean of Studies
- and Bard faculties.
- Coordinate across the staff and faculty of BEC and Houde Academy to ensure timely implementation of academic programming, student activities, staff and faculty meetings, and other aspects of the daily operations of the campus.
o Student Affair Office: Communicating with staff about student absence, leave applications and disciplinary problems.
o General Affairs: Coordinating the order of office and classroom supplies.
o Finance: Assisting the process of application and review of funding requests for activities and events
- Assist the executive logistics of the Director, including, but not limited to: general communications, liaison with local school authorities, travel arrangements, basic accounting, etc.
- Assist coordination of China recruitment activities for both the Early College and Bard College, including, but not limited to:
o General Chinese language assistance
o Strategy and organization of recruitment trips
o Communications with prospective students and parents, current students and their parents, and alumni
o Maintenance of contact database for recruitment
Minimum Qualifications
The successful candidate will have:
- Native or near native Chinese, full fluency in English
- Bachelor’s degree
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word
- Effective communication, written and oral
- Excellent organizational skills
- Eagerness to support a unique educational initiative still in an early growth phase
- Flexibility to respond to changing circumstances and unforeseen challenges and opportunities
- Bachelor’s degree or higher from a college of the liberal arts and sciences
- Prior professional experience in education
- Prior experience working in China
The Program Associate will be compensated commensurate with experience. Employee health benefits and other benefits are also provided.
Please submit a cover letter, resume, the names of three references, and writing samples through Interfolio.com at: http://apply.interfolio.com/62613. Applications will be reviewed, starting immediately, on a rolling basis.
If you have questions about the position, please reach out to Shawn Moore at smoore@bard.edu.
Bard High School Early College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity.
AA/EOE
Organization
Undergraduate Degrees
Bard offers courses of study in four divisions—Arts; Languages and Literature; Science, Mathematics, and Computing; and Social Studies—and in interdivisional programs and concentrations. Students may also earn a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following undergraduate degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; and through the Bard Prison Initiative at six correctional institutions in New York State.
Graduate Degrees
More than 200 students are seeking graduate degrees: M.A. in curatorial studies, M.Music in vocal arts, conducting, and curatorial, critical, and performance studies, and M.S. in environmental policy, climate science and policy, and economic theory and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; M.B.A. in Sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. M.Music degrees are also offered at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Early Colleges
Bard's early colleges educate the next generation of thought leaders, preparing them to be lifetime learners. Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio; Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; and Bard Early College New Orleans and Bard Early College at the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy all serve the needs of highly motivated younger students.
International Degrees
Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College); American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University; as well as dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.
Cultural Life
Campus life in Annandale is vibrant, with world-class performing arts venues; continuous and varied student activities; and numerous cultural and recreational opportunities in the surrounding historic Hudson River Valley and in New York City. Students choose from more than a hundred active clubs on campus, and new clubs begin every semester. The Bard College athletic teams are the Raptors. The College’s colors are red and white. The critically acclaimed Bard Music Festival is presented on campus each summer, exploring the life and work of a single composer through chamber music, choral and orchestral performances, symposia, panel discussions, and preconcert talks. Since 2003 the festival has been part of Bard SummerScape, which annually presents operas, films, and theatrical productions that complement the festival’s theme.
Outstanding Faculty
Bard's undergraduate faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10 and courses are taught by full faculty members. Among the many distinguished faculty at Bard College are five MacArthur Fellows—poets John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, novelist and memoirist Norman Manea, painter and multimedia artist Judy Pfaff, and journalist Mark Danner. Other notable faculty members include soprano Dawn Upshaw, journalist Ian Buruma, composers Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, poet Robert Kelly, and writers Luc Sante and Francine Prose. Over the years, four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature have taught at Bard—Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, and Orhan Pamuk.
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