Senior Associate Director, Faculty Engagement and Program Integration, AI in Business Initiative

About the role

The Senior Associate Director, Faculty Engagement and Program Strategy serves as a senior programmatic leader to faculty and Initiative leadership. This role contributes to the strategic development and integration of the faculty-facing portfolio, through leadership priorities, and long-term program strategy within the broader AI in business initiative.

Responsibilities

• Faculty Engagement and Curricular Pathway Support
• Supports the planning and coordination of the Initiative’s educational activities, as needed, including alignment with faculty priorities and integration with broader AIB programming.
• Provides support and alignment between faculty-led initiatives, co-curricular programming, and other AIB activities, strengthening coherence and impact across the faculty-facing portfolio.
• Serves as a primary faculty-facing partner for AIB initiatives, exercising independent judgment to advise on timing, scope, sequencing, and feasibility of proposed activities in alignment with institutional priorities and capacity.
• Owes follow-up planning and execution after faculty discussions, translating agreed priorities into actionable plans, timelines, and deliverables, and coordinating directly with faculty and internal partners to move initiatives forward.
• Develops and implements operational frameworks and processes to support faculty participation, research prioritization, and cross-faculty collaboration within AIB.
• Ensures coherence and alignment among program elements, avoiding duplication and optimizing sequencing, resourcing, and impact.
• Leads complex, cross-functional initiatives requiring coordination across academic departments, centers, and administrative units.
• Supports faculty labs and research initiatives by coordinating programmatic needs such as postdoctoral engagement, proposal workflows, onboarding of new labs, and alignment of lab activities with AIB priorities and resources.
• Thought Leadership Execution
• Oversees execution of AIB’s thought leadership initiatives, including academic conferences, signature events, research-related convenings, and partnerships, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and available resources.
• Manages speaker outreach, agenda development, event logistics, vendor relations, marketing and publicity, post-event evaluation and other duties as required.
• Supports the translation of faculty research into scalable outputs, including conferences, reports, practitioner-facing content, and external partnerships that advance AIB’s mission and visibility.
• Contributes to the development of multi-year content themes and intellectual priorities aligned with emerging trends in AI, digital transformation, and technology-driven disruption.
• PARTNERS WITH SCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS TEAMS TO AMPLIFY FACULTY RESEARCH AND AIB OUTPUTS TO GLOBAL AUDIENCES.
• ENSURES INTELLECTUAL RIGOR, BRAND ALIGNMENT, AND HIGH PRODUCTION QUALITY ACROSS ALL THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ASSETS.
• Communications and Engagement Support
• Collaborates with Center colleagues and School partners to support communications related to faculty-facing programming, including website updates, newsletters, email campaigns, and social media content.
• Affords program-related marketing and content development to ensure strong participation, clear messaging, and alignment with AIB’s brand.
• PARTNERS WITH ALUMNI RELATIONS AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS TEAMS TO DEVELOP FACULTY-DRIVEN ALUMNI PROGRAMMING, CONVENINGS, AND ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES.
• Cultivates relationships with industry partners, sponsors, and collaborators to advance AIB’s research, thought leadership, and programmatic goals.
• REPRESENTS AIB IN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL AND CROSS-UNIVERSITY DISCUSSIONS WITH INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS AND EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS, ENSURING ALIGNMENT AND EFFECTIVE FOLLOW-THROUGH ON FACULTY-DRIVEN INITIATIVES.
• Budget & Financial Oversight
• Collaborates with the Managing Director to develop and monitor the Initiative’s annual budget.
• Tracks revenue and expenses; performs monthly reconciliations; prepares reports on variances.
• Data & Reporting
• Maintains and updates alumni and industry contact databases.
• WORKS WITH THE INITIATIVE’S MANAGING DIRECTOR TO PRODUCE REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONSTITUENCIES INCLUDING ADVISORY BOARD UPDATES, DONOR REPORTS, ALUMNI/INDUSTRY BRIEFINGS, AND SCHOOL-WIDE STRATEGY MATERIALS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of four years of experience in program management, higher education administration, research centers, think tanks, or related environments.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with faculty or subject matter experts in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into actionable programs.
• Excellent written, visual, and oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including tact and diplomacy in sensitive or confidential matters.
• Interest or expertise in digital transformation, technology, or innovation ecosystems strongly preferred.