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Assistant Director, First Year Programs (Working Title: Assistant Director, FYTP FLC and PLC, G...

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Georgia State University
Location
Atlanta, GA

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Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Description
First-Year & Transition Programs in the Office of Student Success is seeking two Assistant Directors to contribute to successful retention, progression, and graduation of students, especially those in their first year of college.  The Assistant Director(s) will lead first-year program staff and initiatives designed to help students successfully matriculate at Georgia State and help them reach their retention, progression, and graduation goals. The Assistant Directors will create and implement effective programs designed to provide academic support for undergraduate students as they transition from high school and other collegiate institutions. The Assistant Directors will play a major role in implementing the use of predictive analytics and proactive outreach to improve student outcomes. The Assistant Director(s) will also serve as the university liaisons to faculty, and peer offices within and outside the enrollment services suite of offices. These positions are on the front line of the institutions' commitment to helping students from all backgrounds succeed at high rates. 
 

Essential Functions
•    Leads and provides strategic planning for First-Year & Transition Programs suite of student success interventions including but not limited to Success and Perimeter Academies, Achieve Atlanta, support for online students and students in transition, digital communications, and GSU 1010/PCO 1020 first-year experience seminars by working with campus and external partners to create robust programming, academic support, and campus engagement opportunities.  
•    Provides supervision and direction duties such as hiring, training, and evaluating professional, graduate, and undergraduate staff.  Advise and lead staff regarding university policies and procedures, and technical systems such as, but not limited to EAB Navigate and Banner.
•    Evaluates and maintains student records for special populations within the department, monitors student registration activities, academic performance/progress, coordinates communications to students regarding registration, programming, academic resources, monitors, and tracks retention, progression, and graduation for all students within assigned populations.
•    Performs a variety of administrative duties in support of the student success, including collection of data; maintaining documentation files; writing and formatting a variety of correspondence, reports, procedures, and presentations related to First-Year & Transition Programs; and developing outreach materials, including newsletters and social media sites.
•    Serves as a liaison to other campus departments and student success units to effectively implement programmatic plans and to coordinate student success initiatives.  Work with these units and other campus wide committees to develop and track metrics regarding student success outcomes. Coordinates communication with campus partners and faculty on academic program changes or updates.
•    Teaches GSU 1010/PCO 1020 classes

 



Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and three years of supervisory/management experience; or a combination of training and related experience.

College/Business Unit
02/18/22, 11:59:00 PM

College/Business Unit: Enrollment Management
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 04/12/22, 3:58:41 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_university1.jpg

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.

georgia_state_university2.jpgThe 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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