Please give us some details about the role you want to fill and let us know why you think our client might be the perfect candidate for you.
What happens next?
Our Job Search Specialist Mark Beltran will facilitate the next steps:
Mark will let our client know that you have shown an interest in their professional skills.
You will receive a full job application from our client and might want to offer them a formal job interview if you see the right potential in this candidate.
If you decide that you would like to offer the role to our client, we will help to make the next steps as smooth as possible.
You will be supported by our Licensed Immigration Advisers, who will take care of all visa related aspects of the process of offering our client a job.
Offering a job to our client will be straight forward.
Having successfully launched complex initiatives, they bring a unique blend of strategic planning, academic policy expertise, and student-centered case management. Deeply committed to the developmental power of intercultural learning, they excel at building cross-campus and international partnerships that enhance access, equity, and student wellbeing. With a strong background in faculty support, staff supervision, and teaching, they consistently deliver high-impact programs that balance operational excellence with compassionate student support. They are eager to contribute my expertise to an institution committed to innovative global education and continous student development.
Relevant Skills
International & Global Education Leadership: Extensive experience designing, launching, and managing global education programs, including site oversight, partner relations, and global risk management.
Academic Advising & Student Success: Expert in undergraduate advising, degree planning, academic policy interpretation, and guiding students from admission to graduation, including those navigating complex academic or personal challenges.
Program Management & Evaluation: Skilled in overseeing program operations, developing strategic initiatives, conducting site evaluations, and using data and feedback to assess and improve outcomes.
Academic & Professional Staff Support: Demonstrated success supervising professional staff, supporting academic staff with their advising duties, leading training initiatives, and fostering collaborative academic environments.
Budget & Resource Management: Hands-on experience managing operational budgets and student funding resources with attention to accountability and impact.
Communications & Stakeholder Engagement: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience developing student- and faculty-facing communications, websites, and outreach strategies.
Associate Director – International First Year Programs | 2025 – Present
Program Management: Administer the daily operations of a portfolio of sites in the N.U.in program, a study abroad program for first-semester students. Manage student on-boarding, execute orientations and communications, supervise on-site staff, resolve student issues, and conduct site visits.
Partner Relations: Liaise with European partner institutions on student enrolment, housing, health and safety issues, contracts, and payment of invoices.
Student Recruitment: Participate in the program’s efforts to convert admitted applicants to matriculated students, delivering presentations and webinars and responding to student inquiries.
Strategic Planning: Serve on the senior leadership team, developing and implementing strategic initiatives, including site evaluations and staff development.
Assessment: Evaluate program outcomes by analyzing survey data, implement improvements in response to the data, and develop long-range plan for measuring learning outcomes.
Case Management and Customer Service: Serve in the on-call rotation. Respond promptly to queries from students and families, serving as the primary contact for families while students are on site.
Cross-Campus Liaison: Collaborate with campus partners including student affairs, admissions and enrolment, global safety, and academic colleges.
Undergraduate Advising Director | 2022 – 2025
Student Advising: Served as the academic advisor to ~450 undergraduates from matriculation to graduation. Guided them through course and major selection. Connected students to academic an personal support services. Helped students network with faculty and integrate co-curricular interests (e.g., research, study away) into their academic careers. Monitored academic progress. Helped students navigate and apply for exceptions to university policies.
Case Management: Assisted struggling students and students in crisis, including students on academic probation and students needing to take a leave of absence. Communicated with campus partners about student emergencies and students of concern.
Study Away Liaison: Consulted with study abroad staff on academic policies and case management.
Teaching: Taught a self-designed History introductory seminar.
Assistant Dean for Advising & Experiential Learning | 2021
Academic Administration: Served as the sole academic dean for the College’s ~1600 students. Collaborated with the registrar on degree audits and the resolution of graduation issues. Processed transfer credit requests, including study abroad credit. Ensured adherence to and answer questions about University policies. Participated in the governance of the College.
Advising Support: Supported 140 academic staff in their advising duties, providing proactive and timely communication, organizing advising workshops, and assisting with student issues.
Student Recruitment: Coordinated the College’s participation in admissions and orientation events.
Budget Oversight: Managed work study budget & Student Research & Experiential Learning grant.
Staff Supervision: Supervised four part-time staff who teach and advise undeclared students.
Interim Assistant Director of Academic Programs | 2019
Student Services: Guided groups of American students through short-course study abroad programs.
Other experiences include: Student Onboarding Assistant, Director of Academic Engagement, Global and Civic Opportunities, Global Advisor, Coordinator - Regional Programs, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations, Coordinator of Alumni Relations and Special Events, Communications (Media Relations) and Event Management Internships
Doctor of Philosophy – History | 2019
Thesis (passed with no corrections): Impressions That Stick: A Critical Examination of the Reputation of Assisted Emigrants to New South Wales, 1832-42
Master of Arts – History | 2015
Thesis (awarded distinction): Australian Legend, Australian Lives: The Interplay Between Representations of Early Nineteenth-Century New South Wales & the Experiences of Free Immigrants
Master of Business Administration | 2004
Bachelor of Science – Psychology | 2001
Study abroad: Sydney, Australia. Summer 1999 & Fall 2000
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