Associate Director for Transfer Programs, Academic AffairsUS-NJ-PrincetonJob ID: 2025-20353Type: Full-Time# of Openings: 1Category: Academic AdministrationOverview

Reporting to the Director of Transfer and Veteran Initiatives, the associate director will implement and maintain programs in the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity providing mentorship and academic support to students in Princeton’s growing transfer program, as well as in the new Transfer Scholars Initiative (TSI). Core to the position is a capacity and enthusiasm for teaching community college students to draw on and adapt their intellectual toolkit to succeed in their coursework and other academic challenges at selective four-year institutions, both at Princeton and elsewhere. Responsibilities include working with the director on all facets of transfer recruitment, enrollment, placement, advising and mentoring, academic programming, internal record-keeping and external communications, and strategic planning and assessment. The associate director will participate in the Credit Audit Committee to determine standing and transfer courses, work with departments to place transfers at the appropriate point in the undergraduate curriculum, coordinate with campus partners to accommodate nontraditional student needs, hire, train, and provide supervision for the Transfer Mentor Program, and provide intensive advising and mentoring to the growing transfer population. The associate director will also be a core staff member of the Transfer Scholars Initiative, helping to recruit and admit students for the summer intensive program, contribute to TSI programming, mentor students 1-on-1 throughout the summer and the transfer admission cycle, and help lead transfer application boot camp each October. As part of the broader Emma Bloomberg Center team, the associate director will contribute to its programming in various ways appropriate to their expertise. If qualified, the associate director may teach a maximum of one course per year, either a summer course for TSI, or a 200-level writing seminar for Princeton’s transfer students in the fall.

Under supervision of the director, assists in the admission, recruitment, enrollment, and curricular placement of new transfer students each spring and summer. In coordination with the Credit Audit Committee, helps review admission files to determine placement, transferred courses, and general education requirements met for expanding numbers of transfers. With director, leads advising conversations with incoming students in early summer, and takes lead on coordinating with academic departments to consider transferred courses for department prerequisites and requirements. Works with assistant deans of studies and faculty advisers to advise incoming students on course selection and other academic goals.

Assists director in coordinating with Housing, Dining, Financial Aid, the Registrar, and the Residential Colleges for student early arrival in August. In coordination with program director, facilitates new transfer students’ early arrival and co-leads Transfer Pre-orientation events. Works with program director to maintain high-touch advising and mentoring practices as transfer enrollment increases. Hires, trains, and supervises Transfer Mentors, and serves as staff mentor for Princeton Transfer Association (PTA). In coordination with Admission, participates in recruitment events to enhance program visibility.

Assists director in the planning, recruitment, admission, and academic programming for the Transfer Scholars Initiative. Assists in promoting TSI to community college partners, including traveling to partner campuses to lead information sessions. Assists in reading and evaluating TSI applications, selecting attendees, and co-running TSI Orientation in late-June. Works with director and the broader EBCAO leadership team to develop an academic curriculum for the program; recruits, hires, and trains summer faculty; helps lead faculty meetings and ongoing professional development events; liaises with faculty to monitor student performance in classes and leads intervention and advising measures as necessary. Helps revise and then co-leads academic and transfer success curriculum throughout the summer intensive, closely mentors TSI students via one-on-ones, and helps run transfer application boot camp each October.

As a core member of the Emma Bloomberg Center staff, the associate director contributes broadly to the development and execution of its programs and initiatives throughout the academic year and the summer. The successful candidate’s expertise may be drawn upon to coordinate with campus partners, advise and mentor students, hire, train, and supervise undergraduate and graduate workers in the Center, develop curriculum and outreach programming, and serve as a program ambassador for wider Center goals. The associate director will work with the program director to play an important liaison role vis-à-vis Princeton’s key national partners in transfer and veteran student affairs, including the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the American Talent Initiative, The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students, the Warrior-Scholar Project, and Student Veterans of America.

Required Qualifications:

• * Demonstrated commitment to the value of diversity and inclusion, interpreted broadly, in higher education.
• * Experience working with transfer program’s target populations, including but not limited to first-generation, lower income students, military-affiliated students, community college students, adult learners, and students with dependents.
• * Teaching and administrative experience at institution of higher education or secondary school.
• * Experience developing and leading academic and co-curricular programming to diverse student body.
• * Ability to take initiative, work autonomously, and employ sound judgement, while also demonstrating desire and ability to thrive within the diverse expertise and overlapping portfolios of the Emma Bloomberg Center’s team.
• * Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to convey Center’s mission to diverse constituencies.
• * Ph.D.
• * 5+ years including experience during the Ph.D.

Preferred Qualifications:

• * Ph.D. in academic discipline represented at Princeton highly preferred, with candidates from a STEM field especially welcome.
• * Training and experience teaching writing-intensive courses preferred.
• * Working knowledge of transfer opportunities and processes, especially within the state of New Jersey, preferred.

For full consideration application must be submitted by January 27, 2025.

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