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Program Director, SHARE Fellowship

Position Purpose

To take a lead role in scaling up the SHARE Fellowship program by: strategizing, fundraising, mentoring, establishing internships with individuals, corporations and foundations, developing and managing SHARE website, developing and maintaining SHARE Scholar and statistics/profiles, and developing and maintaining orientation packets, media and collateral along with developing and implementing Mentorship Training Program.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Planning
Develop/plan the Program’s five-year strategy in the following areas:

  • Financial Component: Work with CDO to define and engage potential donor pools, including alumni, friends of Thunderbird, foundations and corporations. Develop specific strategies to raise funds for 12 -16 new full-time SHARE scholarships. Develop marketing plan primarily targeting donors, but which will impact recruitment of students, mentors, and employers.
  • Recruiting Component: Working with Committee, define the ideal SHARE candidate. Identify geographical hotspots for student recruiting efforts, and coordinate with Recruiting to create plan to attract new students by reaching out to alumni, businesses and media in those areas. Develop methodical candidate criteria guidelines and process for approval by Committee, Recruiting and Admissions.
  • Mentorship Component: Define potential mentor pools and create a plan for engaging, training, and matching mentors with students. Develop system for monitoring mentor-mentee relationships and ensuring results. Aim to shift mentoring duties from the Committee to the mentors.
  • Employment Component: Create strategy to increase database of potential internships, mentorships, and full time jobs. Develop specific strategies with corporations and foundations to gain commitments for job shadowing, internships, and job opportunities. Coordinate with Career Management Center on potential to offer these positions to Thunderbird students at large when not required by SHARE scholars.
  • Branding Component: Develop, implement and maintain branding strategy: website, collateral materials and social media venues to students, donors and prospective donors.
  • East Coast Initiative: Analyze costs and benefits of a potential Washington DC or New York hub for SHARE students.

Selection Process and Coordination

  • Liaise with Recruiting and Stewardship to ensure delivery of suitable candidate applications on a timely basis. Advise SHARE Advisory Committee of deadlines in advance.
  • Review applications with Recruiting to confirm that all necessary candidate details are available and legible. Prepare candidate summaries and email along with scanned applications and financial information (funds available) to SHARE Advisory Committee members.
  • Coordinate Committee conference call for discussion and ranking of candidates.
  • Report selection decision to Recruiting and follow up on student acceptance.

Mentorship Development, Training and Oversight

  • Serve as conduit and liaison with +/- 20 students and mentors
  • Implement and monitor the agreed mentorship plan (see “Strategic Planning” section above)
  • Identify and cultivate new mentors in coordination with Alumni Relations, Committee, TGC, chapter leaders, etc. Consult recommendations in Vision 2020 plan for building and strengthening the alumni network.
  • Develop mentor guidelines so mentors understand their unique responsibilities (career launching in addition to ongoing counseling/coaching)
  • Set up teleconferences between each student and the SHARE committee (one per trimester, or as needed).
  • Monitor progress of mentor-student relationships and ensure follow-up on deliverables.
  • Coach students on the best way to build relationships with mentors.

Student Guidance and Coaching

  • Work with Recruiting to ensure candidates understand SHARE prior to applying for the SHARE scholarship.
  • Coordinate student orientation: Send welcome letter and packet to new students, and confirm they have access to all needed resources. Meet new students during their first week on campus. Confirm students are integrating into student life socially and academically and plan events/gatherings for students.
  • Make sure students understand the cost of various program options (Summerims, Winterims, unpaid internships, global experiences, etc) and how to budget and finance them.
  • Point students in the right direction for any needed resources whether on campus or for networking purposes.
  • Ensure visa process and deadlines (I-20, F1, and H1B) are being followed, both for initial visa to enter the United States as well as OPT, including confirmation of student attendance at annual campus visa seminar.
  • Help students determine and articulate their academic and professional objectives.
  • Review student CVs, communications, and help with interview and personal presentation skills. Assist students in improving quality of communications as needed on an individual basis.
  • Ensure students begin internship/job search in a timely manner. Follow up closely with students during internship and job search to make sure all opportunities are properly pursued, and that all students are placed (100% success rate).

Liaison to Founder/Committee

  • Regularly communicate Program developments and updates to Founder/Committee.
  • Help prepare and deliver communications to the SHARE community on behalf of Program founder (Christmas cards, welcome letters, update letters, etc.).
  • Maintain spreadsheet of donor commitments for periodic Committee review. Prepare other reports as required by Committee members.
  • Assist Committee members with any administrative needs (schedule meetings, provide contacts, etc.).
  • Analyze potential social networking or web-based options as a means for the Committee to obtain instant student updates.

Administration, Documentation and Record Keeping

  • Arrange on-campus meetings with scholars for visiting mentors and other relevant visitors.
  • Serve as point-person for all SHARE related questions.
  • Create student profiles (based on standardized method, including photograph).
  • Maintain up-to-date student status report (interaction with mentors, status with internships/jobs, living situation, refinement of professional objectives).
  • Maintain record of status activities of potential donors (individuals and corporations/foundations).
  • Maintain record of status activities for internships, job shadowing, and mentorships.
  • Maintain and enhance Program’s marketing and PR materials. Liaise with Marketing department as required.
  • Administer and manage operational elements of the East Coast initiative (see “Strategic Planning” section, above).

Fundraising

  • Market SHARE to “Sponsors” and “Friends of SHARE”.
  • Raise funds to scale up SHARE (around $3M per year).

Qualifications

  • Entrepreneurial spirit, with the ability to create systems and processes
  • Ability to strategize, fundraise, develop strong relationships to scale up SHARE
  • Ability to relate to students’ needs and be available on a daily basis and sometimes evenings/weekends during crunch times
  • Travel monthly domestically and/or internationally to cultivate donors and prospective donors, gain internship and mentorship commitments and open doors for jobs for SHARE students
  • Ability to represent and communicate the perspectives of the founder/committee
  • Detail-oriented. Examples: must follow students’ communications and job search trajectories, keep track of which mentors have been approached, and what suggestions have been made by the committee
  • Solid past work experience in/with mentorship programs
  • Operationally astute
  • Multi-tasking expert
  • Maturity
  • Professionally experienced
  • Ability to work independently with little day-to-day specific guidance
  • Tactful and able to influence interdepartmental colleagues to serve SHARE objectives such as Career Management Services, Marketing/Advertising/Public Relations, Recruiting
  • Excellent professional oral and written communication skills---able to succinctly summarize key points, persuade and inspire.

Education

  • Bachelors’ required, preferably a master's with strong business development and/or fundraising experience.

Please send resume to: Thunderbird School of Global Management, Human Resources, Ref. #1925, 1 Global Place, Glendale, AZ 85306 or e-mail HRresumes@thunderbird.edu EEO/MFDV

Positions open until filled. Relocation costs are not paid. In compliance with Federal and State equal employment opportunity laws, Thunderbird School of Global Management is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, non job-related disability, or any other protected group status.