Senior Global Programs Manager

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Senior Global Programs Manager

Job Profile Title

Advisor International Programs Senior

Job Description Summary

Reporting to the Associate Director, the Senior Global Programs Manager plays a key role in administering undergraduate education abroad opportunities for academic credit at the University of Pennsylvania. This position maintains a study abroad advising portfolio, primarily specializing in global opportunities for engineering and nursing students, along with additional regional areas of focus as needed. This position also manages Penn’s summer term for academic credit, which is launching in its pilot year in summer 2025. Over time, Penn’s summer term for academic credit will integrate into the overall study abroad advising portfolio across all regions and disciplines. This position will be responsible for the smooth transition of systems and processes of the summer term pilot into the overall cycle for study abroad opportunities at Penn.

The Senior Global Programs Manager cultivates and maintains positive relationships with international partners, external stakeholders, and on-campus colleagues as relevant to the regional and programmatic portfolio. The Senior Global Programs Manager also serves in a leadership role among the study abroad programming team.

The SGPM supervises all Global Program Managers within the study abroad team, managing workload and delegating tasks as needed to ensure smooth operation of this body of work. The SGPM guides their respective team through various systems and processes related to the portfolio, including setting the annual advising schedule, leading pre-departure orientation planning and execution, managing the Global Correspondents program, managing the semester grade checks process, managing the semester petition process, and other cross-functional responsibilities as defined by the Associate Director.

The Senior Global Programs Manger acknowledges Penn Abroad’s Core Values (located on our “About Us” webpage - https://global.upenn.edu/pennabroad/aboutus/) as core tenets which guide our work, our shared workplace environment, and our contributions to the University of Pennsylvania. The Senior Global Programs Manager is expected to uphold these values individually, and to assist peers in upholding them collectively and among our team.

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