Assistant Director, Student Success

Urbana, IL, USPosted Sep 24, 2026

Job description

Duties Responsibilities BPA Program Leadership Impact

  • Lead and manage the Business Pathways Academy (BPA) program, ensuring strong outcomes in student engagement, academic performance, and retention
  • Oversee delivery of integrated programming across academic, co-curricular, and community-based experiences
  • Contribute to student success and retention initiatives within the broader Student Success portfolio
  • Partner with leadership to align BPA outcomes with college-wide learner experience goals
  • Contribute to the development and execution of cohort-based student success strategy
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve BPA programming.
  • Coordinate and align BPA student participation in supplemental learning systems.
  • Oversee day-to-day operations of BPA programming and initiatives
  • Track and analyze data
  • Develop reports to evaluate program outcomes and impact
  • Maintain program materials, communications, and systems
  • Establish clear expectations and accountability structures for program delivery
  • Provide professional and student staff training5 Organizational Role Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Serve as a program-level leader within Student Success, contributing to unit planning and coordination
  • Support integration of BPA within the broader student success, OUP and Gies Business ecosystem
  • Collaborate with Coordinator of Academic Success to lead key program personnel.
  • Contribute to unit-level reporting and assessment efforts, including dashboards and impact reports Academic Planning Advising
  • Monitor academic progress of BPA students toward graduation using the appropriate systems
  • Provide proactive individualized advising and degree planning to BPA students, especially those entering with at-risk degree progression
  • Coordinate with Program Coordinator to organize facilitated study groups and skill-based workshops Administration, Assessment Reporting
  • Other duties as assigned

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