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About the Role
The Tisch Institute of Global Sport is seeking an Associate Director, Strategy and Special Projects to oversee daily administrative, fiscal, and operational functions, direct staff management, and maintain organizational alignment. This role will lead the building, recruiting, and management of strategic industry partnerships and operationalize key priorities like career pathways and global immersion programs.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily administrative, fiscal, and operational functions.
- Direct staff management.
- Maintain organizational alignment across academic and administrative units.
- Lead the building, recruiting, and management of the Institute’s strategic industry partnerships across three defined models: Flagship Partners, Applied Partners, and Talent Partners.
- Operationalize key strategic priorities, including enhancing structured career pathways, expanding global immersion programs, and cementing NYU’s position as a preeminent global destination for sports business education.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience combining executive operational management, business development, team management, and strategic partnership cultivation.
- Proven track record of managing staff, directing departmental budgets, and driving business operations within a complex organizational or higher education environment.
- Direct experience structuring, pitching, negotiating, and executing high-value business development deals or corporate-academic partnerships.
Skills
- Advanced operational, fiscal, and business management skills.
- Deep understanding of global sports industry trends, brand sponsorships, sports media, and experiential learning models.
- Exceptional executive-level communication, negotiation, and stakeholder navigation skills.
- Ability to interface with C-suite executives, university leadership, faculty, and students.
- Strategic project management skills with a history of driving cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sports Management, Higher Education Leadership, Corporate Relations.
- Master's Degree MBA, M.S. in Sports Business/Management, M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration, or related advanced degree.
Salary/Compensations
- USD $80,000.00 to USD $100,000.00
About the Company
- Since 1934, the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYU SPS) has been a deeply respected institution of higher education that is grounded in applied learning.
- NYU SPS offers 20 graduate degrees, 14 bachelor’s degrees for undergraduate students, four associate’s degrees, and a plethora of continuing education courses and credentials.
- NYU SPS is a thought leader and serves as an incubator for new ideas in industries that are constantly changing.
- NYU SPS prepares students for in-demand jobs in fields including real estate, hospitality and tourism; global affairs; global sports management; publishing; marketing and public relations; project management; executive coaching and organizational consulting, human capital management; information technology, management and systems; translation; publishing and professional writing.
- NYU SPS faculty members are leading experts in their areas of discipline, with a hands-on approach that encourages students to push beyond their limits and to break new ground.
- NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.
Equal Opportunity
- NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
- All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels.