Assistant Director for Student Success and Operations

🇺🇸 Irvine, California 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $74K - $131K 💻 Academic Advising 🗓️ November 14th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

University of California - Irvine is hiring an Assistant Director for Student Success and Operations. The role provides managerial leadership for the operations of the Charlie Dunlop Biological Sciences Student Affairs office, which supports undergraduates from new student advising through post-graduation planning. The assistant director supervises the professional staff running first-year experience and career development programs and advises unit and school leadership.

Highlights

Provide managerial leadership for student affairs operations and student success initiatives, with authority to make independent decisions about programming, staff management, and unit operations.
Directly supervise the professional staff responsible for first-year experience and career development programs, and advise unit and school leadership.
Monitor and assess people, processes, and services to identify opportunities for improvement, with demonstrated success raising operational efficiency and efficacy.
Apply project management skills to set achievable goals, maintain timelines, delegate work, and manage others to complete projects.
Strong interpersonal skills, including change management, relationship building, constructive feedback, and excellent written and oral communication.
Knowledge of first-year student success strategies, with demonstrated success supporting large, diverse cohorts of STEM students and experience with orientation and transition programs.
Knowledge of career opportunities in the Biological Sciences and experience creating or overseeing new career programming.
Master's degree in higher education leadership, counseling, or a related field (or equivalent experience and training) and at least 7 years of experience in higher education student services.
Pay range of $73,800 to $131,200 per year.