Associate Vice President and Dean of Students
or drop it. Probably we can include a short paragraph with location and schedule etc if they are substantive? The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we can include a
for location, schedule, etc. But we must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. The posting includes schedule info: "Schedule Regular Shift", "Travel Yes, 25% of the Time". Also "Job Type Full-time". So we could include a Schedule section? The instruction says: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Also "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". The posting does have schedule specifics: Regular Shift, Travel 25%, Full-time. That's specific enough. So we could have a
Schedule
with a- Regular shift
- Travel 25% of time
- Full-time
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose." So schedule could be a list. Pay: Not mentioned. Benefits: Not mentioned explicitly. So we should not create Benefits or Pay sections. About the role: The initial paragraph(s) describing the role: "Southern Methodist University (SMU) seeks an experienced and dedicated student-centered leader to serve as its Associate Vice President and Dean of Students (AVP-DOS). Reporting to the Senior Vice President for Student Affairs, the AVP-DOS provides strategic vision and executive oversight for a comprehensive portfolio that promotes student health, safety, wellbeing, advocacy, and success. This is an exciting time to join SMU and the Division of Student Affairs, as the institution continues its ascent towards excellence across the academic, research, teaching, and athletic enterprises, as well as ongoing enhancements to the overall student experience. SMU is experiencing growth and momentum, including expanding undergraduate, transfer, and graduate student populations, increasing national visibility, and the upcoming implementation of an ambitious new strategic plan. The AVP-DOS will play a central role in ensuring that student support systems and wellbeing initiatives evolve alongside the university's continued growth and rising national profile." That's substantive. Also later paragraphs about mission etc. Could be part of About the role. Responsibilities: The bullet list of duties: overseeing areas: Student Conduct & Community Standards, Student Advocacy & Support, Dr. Bob Smith Student Health Center, Campus Recreation and Wellbeing Education. Also collaborating across institution to address complex student needs, lead critical incident and crisis response efforts, ensure regulatory compliance, advance divisional and university priorities. Partner with schools to support students and ensure resources serve needs. Also being visible leader, using position to help students navigate challenges, access support, succeed. Combine decisive leadership, strong supervision, deep commitment to student wellbeing with authentic desire to engage students directly, support staff, advance student success and university mission. Also maybe "oversee areas central to ensuring health, wellbeing, safety". We'll capture those. Requirements: Minimum educational qualifications: master's degree in higher education administration, student affairs, counseling, or related field. Terminal degree strongly preferred. Qualifications: The list of professional qualifications, skills, experiences, personal qualities: At least 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in student affairs in areas directly related to portfolio (student conduct, student care and support, wellness, crisis management). Significant experience leading institutional crisis response efforts, behavioral intervention processes, student conduct and accountability processes, behavioral intervention, emergency management activities. Experience with student conduct systems and care teams. Familiarity with current and emerging issues in higher education, including mental health, Title IX, campus climate, regulatory compliance. Exceptional communication, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement skills. Facility in analyzing data to develop and assess programs to drive change and innovation. Excellent interpersonal, presentation, written communication skills, ability to engage effectively with students, families, alumni, donors, trustees, faculty, staff, senior leaders. Experience serving as spokesperson, public-facing representative, participant in media related communications during sensitive or high-profile situations. Experience navigating complex institutional environments and managing relationships with multiple stakeholders while balancing competing priorities and perspectives. Facility in analyzing data to develop and assess programs to drive change and innovation (duplicate). High degree of accessibility and openness to students and demonstrated record of earning and maintaining trust of student body. Demonstrated experience working in a high-touch, service-oriented environment requiring frequent engagement with students, families, campus partners. Proven ability to inspire, lead, support, mentor a student affairs team of skilled and dedicated professionals, effectively manage talent, develop processes for effective teamwork. Proven track record of effective fiscal and operational management. Demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with students, families, faculty, staff, institutional leaders in a highly relational and service-oriented environment. Demonstrated record of decisive leadership, sound judgment, effective decision-making in complex and rapidly evolving circumstances. Skills: Could be overlapping with qualifications; but we can separate: maybe Skills section for communication, strategic planning, data analysis, interpersonal, presentation, written communication, stakeholder engagement, crisis management, etc. However we must avoid duplication and thin sections. Perhaps we combine Qualifications and Skills into one section? But the instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Requirements (education), Qualifications (experience and personal qualities), Skills (specific skills). Could be okay. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not include duplicated lines; we need to deduplicate repeated phrases like "Facility in analyzing data to develop and assess programs to drive change and innovation." appears twice; we should include once. We must remove boilerplate: EEO statements, contact info for Title IX, application instructions, repeated lines about submitting applications, screening, etc. Also remove "Southern Methodist University has retained Isaacson, Miller..." maybe that's not boilerplate but it's about search firm; could be considered metadata but maybe we keep as part of About the role? It's not essential to role description; but it's not boilerplate; it's about search process. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The line about Isaacson, Miller is not exactly those categories; it's about search firm. Might be considered part of application instructions? It says "Southern Methodist University has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist with this important search. All applications, nominations, and inquiries are welcome." That's basically application instruction. So we should remove that. Also lines about "All applications must be submitted at Isaacson, Miller website..." etc. Remove. Also remove "Screening of complete applications will begin immediately..." etc. Also remove "SMU will not discriminate..." etc. Also remove contact info for Title IX. Also remove "Primary Location USA-TX-Dallas Job Executive Organization Student Life Schedule Regular Shift Staff Employee Status Executive Job Type Full-time Job Level Day Job Travel Yes, 25 % of the Time Job Posting Sep 29, 2026, 10:36:52 AM". We'll fold location and schedule into a short
or Schedule section. Thus final HTML: maybe sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule. We'll not include Benefits or Pay. We'll need to ensure we use
for each section heading. Inside sections, use
for prose,
- for lists. We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all the details from the posting that are not boilerplate. Let's extract substantive content: About the role: - SMU seeks experienced dedicated student-centered leader to serve as Associate Vice President and Dean of Students (AVP-DOS). - Reporting to Senior VP for Student Affairs. - Provides strategic vision and executive oversight for comprehensive portfolio promoting student health, safety, wellbeing, advocacy, success. - Exciting time to join SMU and Division of Student Affairs as institution continues ascent towards excellence across academic, research, teaching, athletic enterprises, ongoing enhancements to overall student experience. - SMU experiencing growth and momentum: expanding undergraduate, transfer, graduate student populations; increasing national visibility; upcoming implementation of ambitious new strategic plan. - AVP-DOS will play central role ensuring student support systems and wellbeing initiatives evolve alongside university's continued growth and rising national profile. - Founded 1911, private research university with focus on global impact, educating >12,500 students (~7,500 undergrad, 5,000 grad) across seven degree-granting schools. - Now in second century, broadly recognized for supporting students, faculty, staff, alumni to be ethical, enterprising leaders in professions and communities. - Over last three decades, SMU expanded reach and reputation nationally and globally, enrolling increasingly high-achieving students from all 50 states and >90 countries. - Division of Student Affairs plays central role shaping transformative student experience, fostering environment where students empowered to thrive academically, socially, personally, professionally. - Guided by mission to create purposeful learning and leadership opportunities, division partners across university to support student success, wellbeing, engagement, belonging. - Collective work cultivates skills students need to become impactful leaders and “world changers.” - AVP-DOS oversees areas central to ensuring health, wellbeing, safety of SMU students, including Student Conduct & Community Standards, Student Advocacy & Support, Dr. Bob Smith Student Health Center, Campus Recreation and Wellbeing Education. - As key member of Student Affairs senior leadership team, AVP-DOS collaborates across institution to address complex student needs, lead critical incident and crisis response efforts, ensure regulatory compliance, advance divisional and university priorities. - AVP-DOS will also partner closely with SMU's schools to support students and ensure that student support resources, wellbeing initiatives, crisis response protocols, conduct and community standards, and student success efforts effectively serve needs of both undergraduate and graduate populations. - SMU community highly engaged, collaborative, inventive; staff pride themselves on providing high-touch student experience. - Ideal candidate: highly approachable leader combining strategic thinking with deep commitment to student wellbeing, fostering culture where every student feels supported and empowered to succeed. - Will bring demonstrated success leading complex student affairs teams, navigating critical incidents with confidence, building strong partnerships across campus to address student needs. - Most importantly, will be highly visible and engaged leader who uses position, relationships, influence to help students navigate challenges, access support, succeed. - Will combine decisive leadership, strong supervision, deep commitment to student wellbeing with authentic desire to engage students directly, support talented staff, advance both student success and university's broader mission. That's a lot; we can keep as prose paragraphs. Responsibilities: - Oversees areas: Student Conduct & Community Standards, Student Advocacy & Support, Dr. Bob Smith Student Health Center, Campus Recreation and Wellbeing Education. - Provides strategic vision and executive oversight for portfolio promoting student health, safety, wellbeing, advocacy, success. - Collaborates across institution to