Senior Director, Programs

SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) • New York, NY

2d • $120,400 - $143,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Director, Programs, you join the SEO Career Leadership Team as the head of the SEO Career Program Team. You will provide strategic visioning, working to develop and implement programmatic growth, while acting as the key decision-maker for the day-to-day operations for all of SEO Career’s Program tracks, the Recruiting Team, and the Training and Development Team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited 4-year institution.
• 10+ years professional experience running programs in a non-profit environment; preference given to candidates who also possess corporate experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience running large programs.

Responsibilities

• Work with SEO Career leadership to set strategy for SEO Career programs and the end-to-end participant lifecycle.
• Oversee implementation of SEO Career programs strategy by providing strategic decision-making and guidance to all Assistant / Associate Directors on the Program Team.
• Provide necessary Programs Team metrics and context when new initiatives are being considered by the Leadership Team and Director of Strategy and New Initiatives (i.e., key KPIs around engagement, conversion, placement, and offers).
• Oversee SEO Career’s Recruitment Team; provide strategic support to ensure SEO Career is consistently building a strong pipeline of viable student intern candidates.
• Oversee SEO Career's Program Tracks, including: Alternative Investments & Investment Banking; Markets; Finance, Corporate & Tech; and Real Estate
• Oversee SEO Career’s Training & Development Team; provide strategic support to ensure SEO Career has content and curricula that meet the needs of student intern candidates.
• Provide project management and effective leadership by being actively involved in all program activities and developing a broad and deep knowledge of the full program cycle including developing, implementing, and tracking the program plan, curriculum, staffing model, infrastructure, and partnerships for Program Tracks.
• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals including 70% engagement, 90% yield, and 80% offer/conversion rates for over 6,000 applicants, 2,500 Edge participants, and 800+ interns.
• Serve as the direct supervisor of all SEO Career Track AD’s (i.e., Associate Director Recruiting; Assistant Director Alternative Investments & Investment Banking; Assistant Director Markets; Associate Director Finance, Corporate & Tech; Assistant Director Real Estate; and Assistant Director of Training & Development) and their respective teams (~22 FTE).
• Serve as the direct supervisor of future Track Associate/Assistant Directors as new SEO Career initiatives onboard as new tracks.
• Research, design, and implement effective systems (including Blackboard LMS, Genius SIS, Thrive TRM, Chronus mentoring platform, an CVENT events CRM, TimeTrade scheduling tool, and more) to track progress.
• Regularly evaluate program components to measure KPIs that can be effectively communicated and utilized to drive change/improvements.
• Perform other duties to be assigned in service of the Careers team objectives and SEO’s mission.

Benefits

• SEO offers a competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits plan including low-cost health, vision, and dental options, a generous holiday schedule and PTO policies, disability coverage, fully paid time off for new parents, and employer contributions to health reimbursement and retirement accounts.
• We are constantly working to improve our benefits each year based on the needs of our employees. We value wellness and strive to put people first and foremost.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees