VACANCY: Managing Director of the Rose Institute for Learning and Literacy

Type: Full-Time
Salary: 75,000
Posted: 01/25/2023
Category: Reading and Literacy; +1

 PRIORITY

Manhattanville College is an independent, coeducational, liberal arts college located about 30 miles north of New York City on a picturesque campus of 100 acres. The College enrolls a nationally and internationally diverse student body of approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students with over 40% of our students coming from historically underrepresented populations. Building on its heritage of social justice and social activism, the College prepares students through rigorous academic and co-curricular programs, for ethical and socially responsible leadership in a global community. We achieve this through integrated learning that combines classroom rigor with experiential opportunities, leadership with service, intimate attention with global reach, progressive change with enduring values, and social commitment with ethical responsibility. The College is fully committed to an inclusive and culturally diverse faculty, staff and student community. We seek to recruit qualified and diverse candidates who will help us achieve our goal of creating an inclusive community that is welcoming to all people.

The Managing Director is a high-level multifaceted position whose responsibility is to expand, implement, and monitor the programs and activities of the Rose Institute, a teacher-training institute based in the School of Education at Manhattanville College. The Institute’s focus is teaching and coaching teachers to provide effective, science- based strategies in the teaching of reading to students K-6 grade in school settings.

Responsibilities:

The managing director role is pivotal: He/she works with the Dean of the School of Education [SOE] as well as the chairperson and faculty members of the School of Education’s Department of Literacy and English Education, to develop and integrate the Rose Institute for Learning and Literacy, in collaboration with Westchester and Northern Westchester and Putnam Counties’ schools, by assuming the following responsibilities:

• Market the Rose Institute, with the assistance of the School of Education’s Graduate Admissions office, through face-to-face and telephone meetings, various social media outlets, appropriate ads, and printed correspondence
• Work with superintendents, principals, teachers, and other school district personnel to recruit schools and teachers to participate in the program
• Work with the Dean to establish agreements with schools and school districts for teachers to participate in the Rose Institute
• Work with key personnel in all interested schools to schedule and communicate about practicum/mentoring, the primary teaching strategy for participating teachers 
• Identify and coordinate with the professors and adjuncts who work within the Rose program. 
• Facilitate the implementation of the Rose Institute programming in Westchester schools
• Work with Manhattanville administrative offices (e.g., Graduate Admissions, Graduate Advising, School of Education, Registrar, Financial Aid) to ensure that students are registered for coursework and fulfilling requirements for successful completion of the Rose Institute
• Coordinate billing process to collect fees owed for services rendered
• Work with Senior Program Adviser to identify opportunities for growth and development of the program in NYC

· Work with Senior Program Adviser and Institutional Advancement to identify and pursue outside funding opportunities

• Prepare periodic and end-of-year reports that detail the program activities and accomplishments for College Trustees and donors. 

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and commitment to a structured literacy approach to literacy instruction.
• An earned master’s degree or advanced coursework in one or more appropriate areas: education, business, administration
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; diplomacy and acumen
• Facility with Microsoft Suite

Salary: $75,000/yr.

Start Date: July 1, 2023, or sooner.

Hybrid work may be available for this position.

Manhattanville College is committed to equality of educational opportunity, and is an equal opportunity employer. The College does not discriminate against current or prospective students and employees on the basis of race, color, sex, national and ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. If you are unable to complete this application process due to a disability, contact Manhattanville Human Resources at humanresources@mville.edu to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

Promoting the health and safety of all of Manhattanville’s students, faculty and staff is of the utmost importance. To that end, the College will be requiring that all employees be vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Applications may be made for accommodations based on medical disability or sincerely held religious beliefs.

Manhattanville College is an independent, coeducational, liberal arts college with a nationally and internationally diverse student body of approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 900 graduate students, located 28 miles north of New York City on 100 acres. Building on its heritage of social justice and social activism, the College prepares students through rigorous academic and co-curricular programs, for ethical and socially-responsible leadership in a global community. We achieve this through integrated learning that combines classroom rigor with experiential opportunities, leadership with service, intimate attention with global reach, progressive change with enduring values, social commitment with ethical responsibility, and diversity with community. The College is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and employees. We are committed to hiring qualified and diverse candidates and creating a community that is welcoming to all people, and made up of a diverse group of people.