Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs

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Posted Job Title

Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs

Job Profile Title

Director D, Student Services, Admissions

Job Description Summary

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished law schools. The School offers a unique approach, incorporating cross-disciplinary legal education, a distinctly collaborative environment, and an innovative curriculum to enrich student learning. The small and highly interdisciplinary faculty achieves scholarly excellence while emphasizing a shared effort to advance understanding of the law. The result is an intellectual community that bridges traditional boundaries and disciplines within a renowned internal culture of collegiality, making the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for all its members.

The Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs (“Assistant Dean”) is the chief architect of strategies to ensure that international lawyers and scholars of the highest caliber join and participate actively in our LL.M., LL.C.M., and S.J.D. programs. The Assistant Dean serves as a key representative of these programs within the Penn Carey Law community, ensuring that students and their achievements are actively integrated into the broader life of the institution.

Working in close collaboration with the Dean and faculty, including the Deputy Dean for Global Engagement, the Assistant Dean articulates admissions strategies for the program and participates in the representation of Penn Carey Law to a host of partners and organizations world-wide. The Assistant Dean fosters the active engagement of these students in the supportive intellectual community at Penn Carey Law.

Job Description

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Strategic Enrollment, the Assistant Dean manages a team of three full-time colleagues, a GSE intern, and a host of seasonal employees. Responsibilities include:

Strategic

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