Associate Director, Silver Student Experience
About The Position
The Associate Director will work on a dynamic team in the Office of The Silver Student Experience to operationalize a fully integrated social work student experience grounded in NYU Silver’s mission, social work core values, and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) competencies. This role provides advanced-level direction and strategic leadership to engage the explicit and implicit social work curricula across the Office portfolio's five core pillars: Social Work Readiness & Competence, Access & Affordability, Community Care, Wellbeing & Belonging, Civic Fluency & Impact, and Celebrative Community Life. Through application of relational awareness, adaptive leadership, and restorative practices, the Associate Director supports student perseverance and social work readiness. The Associate Director will navigate complex student emergent needs while leading key initiatives that bridge academic affairs (explicit curriculum) and community life and student success (implicit curriculum), actively translating NYU and Silver’s commitment to student belonging, flourishing, academic success, and equal access.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Higher Education Administration/Counseling, or a closely related field of practice.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible staff-level experience in higher education administration, student engagement, crisis intervention, student community life, assessment principles, programmatic development, and budget management.
- Structural understanding of the social work implicit curriculum and Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) core competencies.
- Demonstrated engagement and experience with restorative practices/restorative justice, adaptive leadership models, and relational/transactional awareness.
- Excellent interpersonal, strategic, and crisis-management skills.
- Proven capacity for civic literacy and civil engagement practice.
- Strict adherence to data privacy and security procedures for sensitive student data handling and institutional analysis.
Nice To Haves
- Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW), Higher Education Administration/Counseling, or a closely related field of practice.
- 2+ years Prior relevant experience operating within a large, highly decentralized urban research university.
- Prior clinical/direct practice experience working alongside marginalized, non-traditional, or student profiles with additional support needs.
- Advanced strategic capacity to design, implement, and execute comprehensive accessibility audits.
- Proven ability to translate values and competencies into large-scale, student-facing operational systems with measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Operationalize a fully integrated social work student experience.
- Provide advanced-level direction and strategic leadership to engage social work curricula.
- Support student perseverance and social work readiness through relational awareness, adaptive leadership, and restorative practices.
- Navigate complex student emergent needs.
- Lead key initiatives that bridge academic affairs and community life/student success.
- Translate NYU and Silver’s commitment to student belonging, flourishing, academic success, and equal access.
Benefits
- Pay Transparency
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
