Assistant Vice Chancellor for Internship and Employer Partnerships
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Job Description
About the Job
The State University of New York (SUNY) is seeking an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Internship and Employer Partnerships. This role will serve as the System-wide leader, responsible for implementing SUNY’s goal of ensuring every undergraduate completes an internship or other high-quality experiential learning opportunity before graduation. This initiative is a key component of fulfilling Chancellor King’s Four Pillars: student success; research and scholarship; diversity, equity, and inclusion; economic development and upward mobility.
Job Description:
The Assistant Vice Chancellor will be responsible for a variety of duties, including:
• Strategic Planning and Implementation: Developing and leading the implementation of a strategic plan for scaling high-quality credit-bearing and/or paid internship programs. This includes providing technical assistance to campuses and leading communities of practice to address key barriers to scale, as well as developing related tools to further effect lasting impact.
• Partnership Development: Identifying, building, and expanding partnerships between employers and campuses to expand internship opportunities.
• Communication Strategies: Developing effective communication strategies for reaching a diverse community of potential interns across SUNY’s 64 campuses.
• Program Coordination: Coordinating all SUNY System internship funding and programs, directly or through collaboration with relevant program offices, to ensure high levels of cooperation and program delivery across partnerships.
• Fundraising: Partnering with the SUNY Impact Foundation Executive Director to seek philanthropic and corporate support for internship expansion.
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Maintaining SUNY’s High Impact Practices metric for scaling internships, in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Research, and disseminating findings and best practices to campuses and other stakeholders. Developing data analysis strategies based on a strong foundational understanding of labor markets and trends and providing ongoing reporting to leadership on programmatic success.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivating, building, and maintaining a coalition of stakeholders – including employer, labor, community-based, and advocacy organizations – committed to achieving SUNY’s stated internship goal.
• Campus Collaboration: Partnering with campus faculty and staff to make sure students are aware of internship opportunities, prepared to succeed in their internships, and able to connect their internship experiences to academic study where relevant.
• Feedback Loops: Establishing related feedback loops with campuses, interns and employers to ensure continued program success and improvement.
Job Requirements:
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Experience: At least 10 years of direct experience with internships and employer partnerships, with increasing levels of responsibility. Experience with systems development and scaling and managing programs in excess of $1M.
• Knowledge: Understanding of higher education, with preference for experience in or working with SUNY campuses. Familiarity with career services platforms and best practices for reaching diverse candidates.
• Commitment: Demonstrated commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.
