Program Coordinator – SMSP & SA (Fixed Term for 3 Years)

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education
for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and
research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity?s
shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global
network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences
education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United
States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on
intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative
research and graduate education programs that push forward the
frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and
interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local
challenges.

Position Summary

UAE Nationals are encouraged to apply

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint a Program
Coordinator for the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program and
Summer Academy, specializing in Logistics & Media Facilitation,
reporting to the Assistant Manager for Programming &
Strategy.

The Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program and the NYUAD Summer
Academy together form the core of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Community
Programs, which offer a rigorous educational, cross-cultural, and
leadership development experience to outstanding students in the
UAE, and equips students from local institutions for admission to
the world’s top undergraduate and graduate programs. A third
program, the Image Nation/NYUAD Young Filmmakers Workshop, was
added to the department in 2016.

The Sheikh Mohamed Scholars Program is open to top students at the
three national UAE universities—Zayed University, the United Arab
Emirates University, and Higher Colleges of Technology—and provides
unique access to specially designed courses, lectures, leadership
experiences, networking, and graduate school opportunities and
scholarships. The NYUAD Summer Academy is a two-year program
designed to enhance the academic profiles of highly motivated Abu
Dhabi-based Emirati high school students by preparing them for
entry into top-tier English-language universities. The Young
Filmmakers Workshop is a three-week program for Abu Dhabi-based
Emirati high school students that provides exposure to the art of
narrative filmmaking.

The Program Coordinator will work in a small team of highly
motivated individuals, where an environment of collaboration, high
engagement, and initiative is fostered. Under the supervision of
the Assistant Manager of Programming and Strategy, the SMSP/SA
Program Coordinator is responsible for the following duties:
• Facilitate the design of the SMSP and Summer Academy yearbooks,
including collecting and editing all content for the yearbooks,
within firm deadlines. This also includes obtaining text from
various sources, editing text as necessary, selecting appropriate
photographs/graphics, and obtaining approval from supervisors and
Program leadership.
• Facilitate the editing of promotional materials, including
program brochures, event flyers for all department activities, and
website updates. This also includes obtaining text from various
sources, editing text as necessary, selecting appropriate
photographs, and obtaining approval from supervisors and Program
leadership
• Provide logistical support for departmental activities. Such
support includes coordination of on-campus events, arranging
transportation and housing accommodations for students and
faculty/staff, communicating with external vendors, booking
classrooms, booking flights for faculty/staff and students,
assisting with calendaring for leadership, and facilitating the
efficient delivery of programs and services
• Support the recruitment process for the SMSP and Summer Academy
by arranging transportation for the sessions, and attending
recruitment sessions across the UAE to engage with potential
candidates
• Assist in application collection for the SMSP, Summer Academy,
and Young Filmmakers Workshop, which includes ensuring complete
applications and accurate information are collected from
students/schools/universities
• Required international travel with SMSP and/or SA students at
least once a year, serving as a chaperone and/or administrative
support (dependent on travel restrictions)
• Other duties as requested by the Executive Director and Senior
Director

Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree
• Leadership/Academic Development Program experience akin to
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program and/or programs
developing similar skills

Required Experience:
• Internship or Part-time position at an institution of higher
education
• Project Management Experience
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Exposure to the Gulf Region and/or students of that Region
• Excellent time-management skills with a demonstrated ability to
prioritize and to handle multiple projects on tight deadlines,
organized work habits, consistent accuracy, and attentiveness to
detail.
• Excellent editing, attention to detail and accuracy in English
and Arabic
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a time sensitive,
demanding environment
• Professional maturity and judgment consistent with
leadership-support responsibilities, including exceptional
discretion, confident communications skills, and a capacity for
resourceful initiative in a team context.
• Expertise with word processing, spreadsheet, database software,
PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Experience:
• Internship, Part-time, and/or Chaperoning experience
(international travel) with a Higher Education Institute in the
United Arab Emirates
• Experience designing sophisticated marketing or promotional
materials using graphic design tools

Other Information About NYUAD

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully
integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the
Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU
Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of
NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of
portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that
enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in
their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global
university represents a transformative shift in higher education,
one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia
are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural
perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the
Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought,
advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its
academic, research, and creative activities.