Associate Director of Master's Degree Program in Sustainability and Global Development Practice

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Lead the delivery of academic affairs operations including faculty support, curriculum management and training.

The Associate Director plays a critical leadership role in overseeing the operational, administrative, and strategic functions of one of Harvard Extension School’s (HES) largest and most respected graduate programs. The Associate Director is the primary operational lead and backup to the Program Director, ensuring program continuity and high-quality academic operations.

• Lead semester-long instruction of ENVR 496 Crafting the Thesis Proposal (CTP); supervise ENVR 499AB Thesis in Sustainability, specifically ensuring students are matched with suitable thesis directors and review and approve student theses prior to submission.
• Hold virtual office hours to consult with students about progress on the CTP, matching with Thesis directors, and reviewing draft theses.
• Critique and approve thesis proposals, recruit faculty to serve as thesis directors, reviews and approves final format of the completed thesis. Provides individual tutorials as necessary, advises students on relevant courses, writing problems, research skills, and identifying a suitable thesis topic. Contributes to the new “Guide to the ALM Thesis for the field of Sustainability.” Responsible for related projects and duties as required.
• Strategize Thesis process improvements and implement an improved communication plan with students in the thesis process, including key thesis requirements.

• Lead various capstone options (consulting, case study, and innovation) within the SUST and GDP programs, to include managing capstone instructors, pedagogy design, student experience, and overall quality assurance.
• Pedagogy Design includes working with Capstone instructors to ensure the teaching approaches used to convey capstone methodologies are effective and updated.
• Strategize, plan, and execute upcoming Capstone offerings to not only meet the anticipated level of student demand, but to also strategize a blend of offerings from an academic perspective. Will recruit new Capstone Instructors.
• Manage existing Capstone courses, working with instructors to update course designs incorporating student feedback. Seek a level of consistency and appropriate level of diversity across Capstone offerings, which requires regular interaction with Capstone Instructors.

• Act as an advising resource for SUST and GDP faculty and teaching assistants regarding educational strategies, formats, technology and pedagogy.…