Sponsor Funded Executive | Director, NISS Accelerator
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- Georgia State University
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
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- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University (NISS) is dedicated to helping colleges and universities identify and resolve institutionally-created barriers to equity and college completion. Through diagnostic services and practitioner-led coaching, the Institute enables campus leaders to implement proven student-success systems and data-driven interventions and to enact systemic change to institutional processes and structures.The Director, NISS Accelerator, will collaborate across the associated offices of the Division of Student Success and with entities within and beyond the university to develop content and materials associated with the NISS Accelerator online platform. Primary responsibilities include managing and collecting GSU’s student success innovations and best practices to form the Accelerator library, an open-access online hub. Accelerator content will highlight key areas of student success innovation that external institutions should consider regardless of their point of departure, especially: policy and process barriers to student success; low investment/fast ROI programs; best practices for cross-functional collaboration, and leadership alignment across student success functions; and data-driven decision-making as a critical enabler to GSU’s approach and all Accelerator best practices. The Accelerator Director is tasked with coordinating all content focused on driving impact at scale, with the primary outcome being the creation of a freely available and dynamic library encapsulating GSU’s unique approach to addressing critical barriers to student success. They will also support the continued development of cutting-edge digestible content, including but not limited to webinars, podcasts, interviews, and interactive learning modules. The position will serve as a vital member of the NISS leadership team and will play a critical role in the development and dissemination of online materials focusing on proven strategies that can positively impact student progression, retention, and graduation.The scope of responsibility will include these specific duties, but it is not limited to the following,
- Management and collection of GSU’s student success innovations and best practices to form the Accelerator online library, an open-access digital hub
- Support continued development of cutting-edge digestible content, including but not limited to webinars, podcasts, interviews, and interactive learning modules.
- Collaborate with campus administrators to collect and codify GSU’s unique student success innovations for populating the Accelerator library
- Work with designers to create on-brand materials in a variety of digital and analog formats, including but not limited to: PDF, PowerPoint, Video, Audio, Modules
- Implement internal evaluations and assessments with Diagnostic Lead to ensure all Accelerator content aligns with GSU and NISS missions and developments
- Collect and maintain an online list of publications of note that mention or focus on GSU student success operations while also assisting in internal research related to burgeoning student success innovations to ensure Accelerator content is representative of national conversations
- Liaise with social media specialists to keep NISS marketing on-brand and up-to-date across all platforms
- Test, document, and perform quality assurance on all informational content related to and generated by NISS programs
Qualifications
Master's degree and seven years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.
College/Business Unit
05/09/21, 10:59:00 PM
College/Business Unit: Enrollment Management
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 07/15/21, 12:43:11 PM
Organization
Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.
Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.
More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.
The University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.
Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.
The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.
The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.
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