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Assistant Director of Student Success Programs

Virginia Tech · Blacksburg, VA · 1 mo ago
Education$68k–$78k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (maybe from description), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe required qualifications), Qualifications (preferred?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the job description. Job Description paragraph: "The Assistant Director of Student Success Programs provides high-impact academic, professional, and personal support for undergraduate students within the College of Engineering from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. The Assistant Director will manage the day-to-day programmatic and operational needs of special programs, such as the Clark Scholars Program and Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP), ensuring each program runs smoothly and meets its goals within established guidelines and deadlines. The Assistant Director will help students connect to other student services to support retention, graduation, and individual well-being. In addition to leading these programs, the Assistant Director provides stewardship of meeting rooms and general-use spaces, ensuring these environments are well managed, welcoming, and supportive of student success and community building. This position reports to the Executive Director and requires a highly motivated individual who can deliver a high level of interactive customer service while developing and maintaining collaborative relationships within the College and University environment." We can treat that as "About the role" or "Responsibilities". The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections to include. We have content for About the role (description of role). Also responsibilities: day-to-day programmatic and operational needs, manage programs, help students connect, stewardship of meeting rooms, etc. Could be separate. We have Required Qualifications: Master's degree (or bachelor's with experience) in certain fields; experience in student-focused setting; demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office Suite; ability to travel occasionally and work weekends as needed. Preferred Qualifications: proven record of excellent interpersonal, written, oral communication; demonstrated history of program/project management and event planning; experience hiring and supervising undergraduate students; experience owning a recurring newsletter or regular audience communication channel. Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime (maybe not needed). Appointment Type Restricted. Salary Information $68,000 - $78,000 Commensurate with experience. Hours per week 40. Review Date October 19, 2026. Additional Information: criminal conviction check. We need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. It does: Salary Information $68,000 - $78,000 Commensurate with experience. However instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It says we should not include Pay if it's just "commensurate with experience" as filler? Actually they say: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The posting states "$68,000 - $78,000 Commensurate with experience". That includes a range plus "Commensurate with experience". The phrase "Commensurate with experience" is filler? Possibly they consider that filler. But we have a range, which is substantive. So we can include Pay section with the range. Should we include the "Commensurate with experience" text? It's part of the salary statement; we could keep it but maybe it's considered filler. The instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It seems they want to avoid sections where the content is just filler like "Commensurate with experience" without actual numbers. Since we have numbers, we can include Pay section with the range and maybe note "Commensurate with experience" as additional detail? Might be okay. Schedule: Hours per week 40. That's specific. So we can include Schedule section. Benefits: Not mentioned explicitly. No benefits listed. So we should not include Benefits section. Skills: Could be derived from required/preferred qualifications like Microsoft Office Suite, interpersonal communication, program management, etc. But we have separate Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications sections. The instruction lists possible headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which to use. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). Or we could have Requirements for required, Qualifications for preferred. Skills could be separate but we might not need if we already have Requirements and Qualifications. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include required qualifications, preferred qualifications, salary, hours, reporting line, etc. We also have "Appointment Type Restricted" and "Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime". Could be considered metadata; we could fold into a short

or drop. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. So we could include a short paragraph for metadata like "Appointment Type: Restricted. Overtime Status: Exempt (not eligible for overtime). Review Date: October 19, 2026." Or we could drop. Probably include as a short paragraph after sections. Also "Additional Information: The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check." That's also metadata; could be included in short paragraph. Now, we need to avoid boilerplate like EEO statements, etc. The posting includes a long EEO statement and accommodation request. We must remove that. Now, construct HTML. We'll have:

About the role

... (the description paragraph)

Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day programmatic and operational needs of special programs (Clark Scholars Program, Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP)).
  • Ensure programs run smoothly and meet goals within guidelines and deadlines.
  • Help students connect to other student services to support retention, graduation, and individual well‑being.
  • Provide stewardship of meeting rooms and general‑use spaces, ensuring environments are well managed, welcoming, and supportive of student success and community building.
  • Deliver a high level of interactive customer service while developing and maintaining collaborative relationships within the College and University environment.
But note that some of these are already in the About the role paragraph. To avoid duplication, we could keep About the role as a summary and Responsibilities as detailed list. However we must preserve all substantive information; duplication is okay? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not prohibited but could be considered redundant. Better to split: About the role could be a brief overview, Responsibilities list the specific duties. However the original description already includes those duties. We could keep About the role as the first paragraph (the overview) and then Responsibilities as a list pulling out the duties. That would preserve all info (the overview plus list). Might be okay. Alternatively, we could just have one section "About the role" containing the paragraph and then another section "Responsibilities" with list; but that repeats some content. Might be okay but risk of being considered filler? Not sure. Better: Use About the role for the overview paragraph (first sentence maybe). Then Responsibilities for the bullet list of duties. Ensure we don't lose any info. Let's extract overview: "The Assistant Director of Student Success Programs provides high-impact academic, professional, and personal support for undergraduate students within the College of Engineering from varied socioeconomic backgrounds." That's a good overview. Then responsibilities: manage day-to-day programmatic and operational needs of special programs (Clark Scholars Program, STEP); ensure each program runs smoothly and meets its goals within established guidelines and deadlines; help students connect to other student services to support retention, graduation, and individual well-being; provide stewardship of meeting rooms and general-use spaces, ensuring these environments are well managed, welcoming, and supportive of student success and community building; deliver a high level of interactive customer service while developing and maintaining collaborative relationships within the College and University environment. Now Required Qualifications: we can put under

Requirements

with
    . Preferred Qualifications: under

    Qualifications

    (or maybe

    Preferred Qualifications

    but instruction list includes Qualifications as a heading). We'll use Qualifications. Skills: Could be derived but we already have Required and Preferred qualifications covering skills. Might not need separate Skills section. But we could include a Skills section for things like Microsoft Office Suite, interpersonal communication, program management, event planning, newsletter ownership. However that would duplicate. Safer to not add Skills if we already have Requirements and Qualifications. Pay:

    Pay

    $68,000 - $78,000 (commensurate with experience)

    maybe. Schedule:

    Schedule

    40 hours per week

    We also have "Appointment Type Restricted" and "Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime" and "Review Date October 19, 2026" and "Additional Information: criminal conviction check." We can combine into a short paragraph after sections:

    Appointment Type: Restricted. Overtime Status: Exempt (not eligible for overtime). Review Date: October 19, 2026. Additional Information: Successful candidate must pass a criminal conviction check.

    We must not include boilerplate EEO etc. Now ensure we don't include any heading with empty content. All sections have content. Now output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. Check for any missing substantive info: The description also mentions "This position reports to the Executive Director and requires a highly motivated individual who can deliver a high level of interactive customer service while developing and maintaining collaborative relationships within the College and University environment." That is included in responsibilities bullet about delivering high level interactive customer service and developing collaborative relationships. Good. Also "The Assistant Director will help students connect to other student services to support retention, graduation, and individual well-being." included. Also "In addition to leading these programs, the Assistant Director provides stewardship of meeting rooms and general-use spaces, ensuring these environments are well managed, welcoming, and supportive of student success and community building." included. Also "The Assistant Director will manage the day-to-day programmatic and operational needs of special programs, such as the Clark Scholars Program and Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP), ensuring each program runs smoothly and meets its goals within established guidelines and deadlines." included. Now required qualifications: Master’s degree (or a bachelor’s degree with relevant professional experience) in Engineering, Education, Counseling, Student Personnel Services, or a relevant field. Experience working in a student-focused setting, such as academic advising, classroom instruction, counseling, or related student services. Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office Suite or equivalent tools for document creation, data management, and electronic file organization in a professional setting. Ability to travel occasionally and work weekends as needed. Preferred qualifications: Proven record of excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. Demonstrated history of program or project management and event planning. Experience hiring and supervising undergraduate students. Experience owning a recurring newsletter or regular audience communication channel from concept to distribution. Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any: "Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for appointment type Restricted Salary Information $68,000 - $78,000 Commensurate with experience Hours per week 40 Review Date October 19, 2026 Additional Information The successful candidate will be required to have a

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