Associate Director

Overview:
The main responsibility of the Associate Director (AD) is to supervise the day-to-day management of the activities of the Arts & Humanities Division alongside the Executive Director and the Vice Deans and to work closely with the junior managers to ensure smooth Division´s operations. The AD is expected to actively participate in the implementation of the activities of the unit. The Associate Director must feel comfortable working in a busy environment that will require multi-tasking and will have 3 mains missions: support of the academic activity of the department, coordination of the extracurricular activities it organizes, and general administrative management. Experience in educational management and event organization will be highly valued. Finally, we are looking for someone with an affinity with the arts and humanities.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
Academic area:

- Support the Executive Director and the Vice Deans when needed.
- Support in curriculum design.
- Support with the management of faculty issues.

With students:

- Meet with students in order to solve issues on a daily basis and coordinate all sorts of curricular or extracurricular activities.
- Manage the relationship with class representatives and other student clubs and association.
- Manage the communication to students.

With Professors & Other Departments:

- Liaise with professors to coordinate curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Collaborate with the Admissions Department, Marketing Department, Planning, Documentation, Student Office, Campus Life, Maintenance Departments, etc.

Internal and External Development of the department:

- Follow up with the relationships with external stakeholders and the joint projects already running.
- Develop internal presentations.
- Intensive internal interaction with a broad range of areas to cater transversal needs related to the arts and humanities.
- Manage the logistics of the extracurricular activities alongside the coordinator, under the leadership of the executive director and the Vice Deans.
- Events Planning:

- Organization and promotion of activities supported by the Division
- Assistance during the event or the activity, both inside or outside our campus
- Work together with the Executive Director and the Vice Deans and other stakeholders in the coordination and implementation of curricular and extracurricular innovations.
- Interact with the different departments of IE to ensure service provision for students and solve problems in the shortest possible time.
- Participate in information sessions.

Qualifications:
**Requirements**:

- Master’s Degree from a recognized University.
- Minimum of 5 years’ work experience.
- Fluency in English is a must and a good knowledge of Spanish is preferred.
- High level of comfort interacting with arts and humanities topics.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a role that requires both strong leadership and implementation skills as part of a high-functioning team.
- Strong project management skills to provide support on short, medium and long term projects as relates to logistics, event planning, communication, etc.
- Team player that enjoys working with others in a collaborative environment and demonstrates a pro-active and positive attitude.
- Customer orientation and the ability to act as liaison to students and professors.
- Ability to quickly address concerns, queries and feedback in a constructive and action-oriented manner.
- Attention to detail and ability to handle sensitive information.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to actively listen and demonstrate empathy.
- Ability to prepare and present effective presentations.