Associate Director, Silver Student Experience

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Associate Director leading student engagement and social work readiness at NYU. Directing initiatives bridging academic affairs and community life to support student success.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $80,000 - $100,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work on a dynamic team in the Office of The Silver Student Experience.
Operationalize a fully integrated social work student experience.
Provide advanced-level direction and strategic leadership to engage social work curricula across five core pillars.
Support student perseverance and social work readiness through application of relational awareness, adaptive leadership, and restorative practices.
Navigate complex student emergent needs while leading key initiatives bridging academic affairs and community life.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Higher Education Administration/Counseling, or a closely related field of practice.
5+ years of progressively responsible staff-level experience in higher education administration, student engagement, crisis intervention, student community life, assessment principles, programmatic development, and budget management.
Structural understanding of the social work implicit curriculum and Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) core competencies.
Excellent interpersonal, strategic, and crisis-management skills with a proven capacity for civic literacy and civil engagement practice.
Advanced strategic capacity to design, implement, and execute comprehensive accessibility audits.

Benefits

Comp & perks

NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.
Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in recruitment.

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Hard Skills & Tools

social workhigher education administrationcrisis interventionprogrammatic developmentbudget managementaccessibility auditsassessment principlescurriculum designstrategic leadershiprelational awareness

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsstrategic capacitycrisis-management skillsadaptive leadershipcivic literacycivil engagementstudent engagementcommunity life navigationstudent perseverancerestorative practices

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Social WorkBachelor's Degree in Higher Education AdministrationBachelor's Degree in Counseling