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Director of Student Life & Leadership - Goizueta Business School
Emory UniversityUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 May 2025
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Description
The Goizueta Business School's BBA office is in search of a Director of Student Life & Leadership to join their team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean and Director of the BBA Program, the Director of Student Life and Leadership is responsible for leading and directing key aspects of student life in the BBA Program Office including: BBA Council and Club Advising for 20 divisional clubs, overseeing conference programming, running the case competition team, and supporting a cadre of academic advisees.
- As a member of the BBA Program Office, the director will work with academic advisees to create academic plans based on the educational goals of each advisee.
- Will hold one-on-one meetings with advisees to make sure students complete degree requirements for graduation; will maintain relationships with key resources across campus and refer students when needed.
- As a key member of the team that is focused on co-curricular learning and development for students the director represents the BBA Program on several important committees including the Dean's and Director's committee, the Emory University Club Advising Committee, and serves as the primary advisor for the BBA Council.
- Works with members of the Program office team on a number of programs including diversity admissions programming, graduation, and orientation scholars' events.
- Responsible for the execution and oversight of several key aspects of BBA Program's Program including the following: Case Competitions Identifies and coordinates student teams to represent the BBA Program for high profile case competitions all over the country.
- Organizes and delivers case competition information sessions for BBAs.
- Works with Emory University's Office of General Council to ensure that all legal compliance forms are completed prior to student travel.
- Works with the divisional student clubs to recruit students to participate in case competitions.
- Works closely with faculty to recruit, identify, and mentor student teams in preparation for competitions.
- Remains available to traveling students 24/7 while attending the case competition as a point of contact for Emory University.
- Advise BBA Council Advises BBA Council Members on all aspects of council business.
- Holds regular/ weekly meeting with key Council Officers including the President and Executive VP for BBA Council, the VP of Finance, and the VP of Club, in addition to others.
- Advises and mentors Class representatives for the Class Gift Campaign.
- Holds regular meetings with the VP of Clubs and EVP.
- Attends evening and weekend council meetings and events.
- Works with the Executive VP and SILT to coordinate the elections process.
- Facilitates BBA Council Focus group and develops report for the BBA Program review report.
- Trains BBA Council and student leaders to mentor newly admitted students to the BBA Program at orientation. Coordinates and executes event attendance tracking (with GTS and EMORY One Card) for all BBA Council and Club Events to track BBA student participation.
- Drafts student life content for marketing materials.
- Works with SILT on club advisor training for the summer so students have a consistent experience of support for club leaders.
- Hosts Club leader transition lunch/dinners to encourage a seamless transition of leadership from one year to the next for twenty organizations.
- Hosts BBA Council Transition Lunch/Dinner to encourage a seamless transition of leadership from one year to the next.
- Member of the graduation committee and awards committee and works with fellow administrators like Athletics to understand and celebrate student achievements across the Emory Campus.
- Organizes and attends BBA Council annual retreat.
- Serves as primary liaison with the Office of Student Involvement, Leadership & Transition (SILT).
- BBA Council and Club Advising Chartering of the GBSA: Works with existing students to re-establish the club to create a support network for traditionally underrepresented students in the BBA Program.
- Hosts Diversity Pre-BBA Preview Day.
- Works with contacts at SEO and MLT to help current students dealing with Program scheduling conflicts.
- Facilitates the student club speaker gift process.
- Works closely with Senior Reps on graduation celebration and the class gift campaign.
- Advise the UBSLC Exec board Works closely
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