Program Director, Student Success Initiatives

Job Profile: Administrative Operations Specialist 4 Job Family: Administrative Operations Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved. Job Profile Summary: Provides leadership and support in planning, managing, developing, and evaluating departmental strategy, initiatives and activities. Job Description: The Office of the University Provost at Arizona State University (ASU) seeks a collaborative, data-informed, and strategic leader to serve as Program Director of Student Success Initiatives for the National Scale Enterprise (NSE) grant. This role will lead university-wide efforts to identify, implement and scale innovative practices that advance undergraduate student success. Under the supervision of the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, this role brings all-encompassing excellence, research and practice expertise to a team focused on supporting colleges in designing and implementing coordinated strategic interventions for student success. This specific role requires coordinating the relationship with college liaisons and other student success experts within each college. Additionally, we seek specific expertise in how different aspects of student development, advising, learning experience, learning and institutional environment and student engagement may be impacting student outcomes. The role will combine a focus on data-informed knowledge and expertise in all-encompassing excellence to impact student enrollment, retention, completion, and post-completion as well as institutional innovation and change. This role is central to advancing ASU's commitment to excellencefor all by ensuring that student success efforts are coordinated, evidence-based, and scalable across the institution. Working across ASU's colleges and schools, and in partnership with EdPlus, Student Success Innovations, University College, Enterprise Technology, and the Data Strategy, Analysis, and Planning teams, this role will drive improvements in data use, advising and coaching models, workflow design, program and student support interventions. The Program Director will serve as a strategic connector, building strong relationships and developing shared practices that support timely persistence, undifferentiated student outcomes, and ASU's mission of collaboration and broad impact. Goals include establishing a consultative and collaborative approach to centralized and distributed student success innovations, institutionalizing transformation through sustained School & College-level engagement and co-ownership of data-informed student success projects and practices. This role operates at both the strategic and applied levels, ensuring alignment between institutional priorities and implementation across academic and support units. Essential Duties: Support NSE grant initiatives including accelerating projects such as Project SUN UP, Student journey/signals project, student voice, course outcomes and other prioritized initiatives to strengthen college and unit cohesion and undifferentiated student outcomes. Facilitate cross-institutional planning and collaboration to improve undergraduate student success practices and accelerate progress toward ASU Charter-aligned goals. Act as a strategic liaison between the Office of the Provost, EdPlus, colleges/schools and service support units including coordination of distributed project Fellows. Lead and support working groups and other infrastructure to establish and sustain data-informed, focused efforts on student experience, advising and coaching models, and retention-related workflows. Working with other teams in the Office of the Provost, establish and implement frameworks to assess the effectiveness of student success initiatives, integrating the framework into the design of new initiatives. Build institutional capacity for data-informed decision-making while, when appropriate, directly gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing data to inform strategy and support key initiatives. Promote all-embracing student-centered practices and frameworks that reflect ASU's commitment to measuring success by whom we include and how they succeed. Translate findings and practices into clear recommendations and tools for practice and policy decisions, highlighting both successes and challenges and adaptations based on various structural contexts (size of school/college, length of time initiative has been in place, etc.) Promotes and communicates the program goals and objectives. Identify promising practices across ASU and nationally that can be piloted or adapted for ASU's context. Desired Qualifications: Master's degree, preferably in education student support or counseling Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience in student success or related area Demonstrated experience successfully leading retention initiatives and student success strategy, including program design and development Skill in analytical, organizational and policy interpretation. Skill in planning, analyzing, and coordinating activities and establishing priorities. Skill and leadership in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships. Working Environment: Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of computer work; required to occasionally travel moderate distances to perform work across campus locations. Department Statement: The Office of the Executive Vice President and University Provost provide leadership to all of the university's campuses and academic programs, fostering excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. The provost office guides the university's mission in providing educational quality and access and directs the university's efforts in strategic redesign of its academic mission to achieve the vision of The New American University. This team is headquartered at ASU's campus in Tempe, Arizona. Hybrid and flexible work schedule opportunities are available. Out-of-area candidates are invited to apply; relocation expenses are not covered. Driving Requirement: Driving is not required for this position. Location: Campus: Tempe Funding: Grant Funded ASU Statement: Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe. ASU is a tobacco-free university. For details visit All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. Notice of Availability of the ASU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report: In compliance with federal law, ASU prepares an annual report on campus security and fire safety programs and resources. ASU's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online at You may request a hard copy of the report by contacting the ASU Police Department at View phone number on click.appcast.io. Relocation Assistance - For information about schools, housing child resources, neighborhoods, hospitals, community events, taxes, visit ASU's comprehensive benefits package is a key part of your total compensation. 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