City Director

Description

ABOUT MINERVA UNIVERSITY

Minerva University, based in San Francisco, California, offers a unique undergraduate experience for the brightest, most motivated students in the world. Minerva has beendeliberately designed to teach the capabilities needed to solve complex challenges. Combining a reinvented curriculum, rigorous academic standards, cutting-edge technology, and an immersive global experience, Minerva provides an exceptional and accessible education to prepare future leaders and innovators across all disciplines. Minerva undergraduate students come from all over the world to spend their first year in residence in San Francisco, and then live and study in a different major world city every semester thereafter. These rich international experiences provide students with deep global understanding and skills.

ABOUT STUDENT LIFE

The Student Life team oversees the growth and development of students outside the classroom. Student Life staff members work within and across teams focused on residential life and Minerva community development, civic engagement and city/cultural immersion, mental health and wellbeing, and professional development of students to prepare them for post-graduation employment or graduate and professional school. These teams are unified by a shared goal of providing and/or supporting opportunities for integrated learning for our diverse and global student community.

THE ROLE

This role is ideally suited for someone who is passionate about student growth and development, believes deeply in experiential learning, enjoys building relationships with partners, excels at project management, gets energized looking for creative solutions and has experience leading and managing a team. The City Director is the most senior representative of Minerva in the region and works collaboratively with staff throughout the organization to provide a high quality experience for the current students while also supporting the institution to have a strong presence and recognition in the region.

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to the Associate Deans of Student Life with advisory collaboration with the Associate Dean of Counseling And Psychological Services (CAPS) and Coaching and Talent Development (CTD), the City Director will lead the Student Life Team in Berlin. Directly reporting to the City Director will be a Residence Life Manager (RLM) and an Experiential Education Manager (EEM) in the assigned city, this team will support all activities in the city and provide students with a holistic semester experience. In addition to the core general functions outlined below, the City Director will have overall responsibility for the following:

● The full operation of the rotation city in collaboration with their assigned Associate Dean and in the supervision of their own direct reports.

● Ultimately responsible for development and implementation of the high-level strategy, overarching narrative and cohesion of goals and timeliness of messaging

to students and staff relative to their rotation city, holding the Student Life Team accountable to content deadlines, facilitating meetings and checking in and

providing feedback on deliverables, in collaboration with the entire Global Oversight team.

The City Director will oversee and be responsible for:

● Leading, managing, and supporting members of the city-based Student Life Team to support their development, growth, and potential in their respective roles

● Manage the administration of City life, collaborating with appropriate government, partner, and in city resources to ensure a smooth running city operations.

● Oversight and management of the city budget

● Coordinate and implement the on the ground administration of student visa process for students arriving in Germany.

● Crisis and emergency management response (HSSE): implementation and management

● Effective team delivery of major events (the City Director will project-manage student orientation, and oversee the production of milestone community

events/traditions (as relevant) in coordination with the global Student Life Team. Similarly they will oversee the staff in creating partnership events meant to engage

the external community with Minerva and its students.

● Maintaining ongoing relationship(s) with residence hall property management, the local technology provider in collaboration with Minerva’s technology consultant,

and the local visa partner (if applicable). Will be the primary point of contact for partnership opportunities with local professionals and organizations, passing on

contacts to the Partnerships Manager when applicable.

● Using a student development framework, respond to and report student policy violations in the city including forma