Executive Director, Leadership Development for MBA Programs

Department
 

Booth Leadership Development for MBA Programs

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Executive Director has overall responsibility for leadership and professional development content and programming across all Full-Time, Evening and Weekend MBA programs, and supports the Executive MBA and Specialized Masters programs. The Executive Director also serves as a member of the School’s leadership team, a partner within the University, and an expert on matters related to students’ leadership development.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a key member of the Deputy Dean for MBA Programs’ leadership team. Collaborates with leadership team members to design policy and generate practices that enhance the quality of the student experience and align with school priorities and strategy. More broadly, plays an active role within Booth’s management team, participating in discussions, activities, and internal committees as.
• Leads the Leadership Development Office (LDO) providing both strategic direction and management of curriculum and programming. This includes oversight of a number of key institutional responsibilities including, comprehensive oversight of the LEAD class required of all MBA students, classes taken by student facilitators, as well as reporting to governing faculty bodies; oversight of the Kapnick Program at the Law School, including partnering with Law School colleagues to achieve School objectives; oversight of leadership and career development content and programming within the Executive MBA program; oversight of impactful leadership development programs for current MBA students in all programs.
• Manages the financial resources of the LDO including budgets, finances and forecasts across all responsibilities and projects.
• Leads a professional team of coaches, content experts and office staff. Manages all aspects of the team experience including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, and appraising performance; ensuring on-going development; aligning team roles across all LDO offerings.
• Collaborates with colleagues across Booth in the fulfillment of LDO and school objectives. This includes partnering with Admissions to communicate the value of the Booth experience and to accommodate incoming classes of students within LEAD; partnering with the Student Life team to develop and deliver programming; partnering with the London and Hong Kong Global Career and Leadership Development team within the Executive MBA Program; coordinating programming and content with the Davis Center for Leadership; and collaborating with members of other teams and offices as needed.
• Serves as an ambassador for the school on matters related to the LEAD class and leadership development, and more generally with alumni and other parts of the University. Supports additional school initiatives and priorities ranging from Orientation and Convocation to program development.
• Provides leadership for a Center with senior management and serves as a liaison to academic departments, professional o