Assistant Director, Stevens Doctoral Program and PREDOC

Department

Booth Stevens Doctoral Program 1

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 Assistant Director serves as an integral part of the Stevens Doctoral Program, one of the oldest and most respected business PhD programs in the world, and Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC), a consortium of universities and research institutions that aims to remove barriers to access to research and doctoral careers. This position focuses on recruiting, admissions, and marketing for the doctoral program, as well as communications including website, program assets, and social media, student events and services, operations and accounting, and data management across both units.

This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored employment authorization.

Responsibilities

• Develops innovative recruiting strategies that increase awareness of the Stevens Doctoral Program at Chicago Booth to attract applicants and yield admitted students.
• Conducts PhD recruitment and yield activities. Duties include facilitating online recruitment events and executing a bi-annual campus program that brings together undergraduates from across the country to explore graduate research at a business school.
• Supports the Stevens Doctoral Program admissions lifecycle by ensuring timely delivery of admissions-related applications, instructions, and events to prospective applicants.
• Executes communication strategies for prospective applicants throughout the admissions process, offering information about the Doctoral Program by email, online, and in person.
• Assists with event planning and logistics for Doctoral Program events (student orientation, admission visit, graduation, professional development, alumni events, student-initiated programming, and social events), including space reservations, catering needs, coordination with audio visual and facilities teams, and management of attendee needs.
• Manages accommodation for PhD students with disabilities, including working with Student Disability Services, Equal Opportunity Programs, Audio Visual Services, and Booth partners at domestic and international campuses as needed. Assists non-PhD students with accommodation needs for PhD-level courses at Chicago Booth.
• Organizes materials for Accounting and URA for grant applications and assists with preparation of donor materials.  Manages donor communications for endowed PhD fellowships and other gifts, working with students and Advancement to ensure timely completion of annual reports and thank you notes.
• Contributes to quantitative social science research pathway programming at PREDOC, focusing on logistics for outreach and travel as well as the development of online resources and networking events. Manages planning, logistics, and communications for Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+), and for the annual PREDOC Student Research Conference.
• Updates and maintains applicants, students, staff, and alumni data for databases, systems, reviews and reports for the Stevens Doctoral Program and PREDOC. Includes tracking outcomes and career trajectory of program alumni and reporting on participant engagement across events and services.
• Oversees internal and exte