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Occupational Summary

This position provides the lead logistical and programmatic support for the America in the World Consortium (AWC), a grand strategy consortium with partner universities that is hosted at Duke through the Program in American Grand Strategy. This individual is responsible for managing the finances of the AWC, designing and executing programs across AWC, and providing short and long term strategic support to the consortium’s principals, with an urgent priority on designing and executing a branding, marketing and communication strategy for the new organization.

Work Performed

A detailed description of functional areas and tasks follows:

PROGRAMMATIC 25%

Coordinate all planning and implementation activities related to the organization of events on and off campus, locally and nationally, including several annual conferences (Civil-Military Affairs, the AWC June Policy Workshop, Young Turks, etc.) Identify potential participants, manage invitations and responses, coordinate event logistics, prepare relevant documentations, and undertake necessary follow-up with participants and service providers. Make significant contributions to the definition of contents/agendas, speakers, and research agendas for special projects.

Develop and coordinate promotion and publicity for programs and events across participating school and throughout the wider community via internal and external listservs and mailing lists, social media and the like.

Run conferences, workshops, and other AWC programs, in concert with the staff of other consortium partners.

MANAGEMENT 20%

Oversee the workflow of the three university administrative points of contact and serve as a focal point between teams and the principals and donors in areas including program design, developing standard operating procedures, maintaining the consortium’s annual schedule, planning and executing consortium-wide programs/events, writing and sending communications, conducting marketing and outreach, and maintaining and building relationships with current and prospective affiliated schools/organizations.

Focus on people management as the program expands research positions, practitioners and supporting faculty roles. Supervise various personnel actions including, but not limited to, hiring, tasking and performance appraisal. Identify, select, recruit, and help mentor pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows chosen through AWC.

FINANCIAL 20%

Prepare budgetary recommendations; monitor budget; prepare financial and operational reports, forecasts and analyses. Prepare grant proposals and applications to include compilation of data and preparation of budget expenditures; monitor and verify expenditures; ensure compliance with University and funder policies and procedures; prepare administrative reports for submission to donors and funders.

Lead and coordinate the development efforts for the Program; identify potential sources of funding; coordinate the writing of proposals; perform the necessary follow-up with donors and sponsors; work closely with relevant University development authorities.

SPECIAL PROJECTS 30%

Design, propose and execute a branding and marketing strategy to increase Consortium visibility and grow its audience and impact. This includes tracking Principal and Fellow publications and presentations and also providing updates via the AWC newsletter and social media.

Work with AWC pre- and post-doctoral fellows to mentor more junior students, especially students seeking undergraduate and professional masters degrees.

Grow the AWC alumni network.

Be a key contributor to an effort that looks at the incoming and potential pipelines of candidates in the academic space in order to better position the consortium to make an impact sooner.

Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

DEPARTMENTAL PREFERENCES

3-5 years’ experience in an administration/management capacity, grant administration, donor development or other related area with progressive responsibility in the development and special projects in order to acquire skills necessary to provide programming and administrative support for the program.

In addition, the successful candidate will possess the following qualities/attributes:

Demonstrated interest in and substantial understanding of American foreign policy and military affairs desirable.

Capacity to interact well with graduate students, faculty, senior policy figures, and prospective donors, as well as with undergraduates.

Ability to work successfully with partners locally and remotely.

Deep understanding of the academic job market and the academic-policy interface.

Extensive knowledge and experience in event planning, public relations and marketing campaigns, and social media.

Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Willingness to work with a wide variety of people.

Demonstrated capacity to manage a budget and financial reporting for a program that is beyond $1 million annually.

Work requires analytical, communications and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Work requires one year of experience in program administration or involving academic, instructional or counseling activities to acquire skills necessary to plan, coordinate and implement a variety of program activities and events. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

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