Assistant Director, Stevens Doctoral Program

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 Office team, with a focus on visiting students, student milestones and graduation.

Responsibilities

• Manages visiting PhD students, including application, approval, and visa process, onboarding upon arrival and oversight and student services while at Booth.
• Ensures completion of quarterly academic activities, milestone papers and other doctoral program deadlines.
• Schedules and organizes PhD general exams, and dissertation proposals and defenses, and maintains database of faculty participation on student proposals, defenses and exams.
• Oversees graduation planning, including reviewing and confirming submission of dissertations to the Dissertation Office, communicating with graduating students about requirements for degree award/convocation participation, and helping organize events for graduating students/faculty.
• Reviews academic progress, including tracking students’ progress in the program and assisting with candidacy checks for some dissertation areas.
• Understands and interprets PhD program and University policies and deadlines.  Helps students resolve problems and refers them to campus resources as appropriate.
• Processes, updates and maintains admission records, runs reports, and prepares and distributes admission files.
• Counsels prospective applicants and students about the doctoral program by email, phone and in person.
• Conducts analytical assessment of key program metrics by updating and maintaining applicant, student, and alumni data for databases, systems, reviews and reports.  Creates reports and slides for program assessment.  Includes tracking outcomes and career trajectory of program alumni and producing outcome reports.
• Assists with doctoral program events, including orientation, admit visit, professional development and alumni events.
• Accesses confidential information in central and local systems.
• Conducts research projects (benchmarking competitor programs, prospect research, etc.).
• Solves problems in areas such as academic and administrative policy, student admissions, curriculum research and development, and budget development.
• Recommends process improvements for programs that relate to critical student-life improvement, including emergency management, accommodations for students with disabilities, and/or the administration of health care services and programs for students.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Advanced degree.

Experience:

• A minimum two years of experience in higher education.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Demonstrated proficiency with