ASU Local grew out of ASU’s pioneering work in community-based college options, designed to re-imagine the college model and strive for equitable college options for all. As the ASU Local Architect of Learning and Student Success, you are the chief architect of the learning model and student experience. You will become a leading expert in serving our students and communities as we design and build innovative new ways to serve learners. As a Senior team member of ASU Local, and collaborating across ASU Learning Enterprise, this role will drive an essential part of the Learning Enterprise mission by ensuring ASU Local is designed with a student-first mentality - leading students to earn a college degree and be ready for future career and life success.

As the Architect of Learning and Student Success, ASU Local, reporting to the Director of ASU Local and the Sr. Director of Design, Foundational Learning, your top priority is leading staff in creating a learning model that leads to student success as measured by retention, completion, and job attainment. You will work to ensure the ASU Local vision and signature practices are deeply engrained in staff and student culture through training and highly responsive feedback mechanisms that allow for rapid on-the-ground operational success. Being “on-site” will be a key component of your day-to-day work as you lead the streamlining of all the model components to optimize the use of resources. You will regularly travel to support and observe staff at various ASU Local sites. You understand the distinction between developing curriculum and designing a learner-centered, real world-connected student experience. You activate this understanding by creating an ASU Local student experience that defines what a world-class hybrid higher education looks like and is designed with an equity mindset to ensure ALL students can thrive.

This position is based out of Los Angeles, California

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ASU Local Site 1

Full-Time

Learning Enterprise

Open

This is not a grant funded position and is not contingent on future grant funding.

$100,000 - $125,000 per year; DOE

30-January-2023

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• Architect Innovative, World Class Programming: ASU Local is more than a college program. You own the design, build, and implementation of high-quality curricula and experiences that deeply prepare students for college, career, and life. You ensure these experiences are relevant to students at various stages of their journey and are delivered and aligned to the 4-year scope and sequence for ASU Local, with a focus on the design and implementation of world-class experiences. You hold the vision for and work across ASU Local teams to ensure teams are ready to implement ASU Local’s key programmatic practices aligned to learners gaining and thriving in the areas of well-being, social connectivity, lifelong learning, change making, and navigation of purpose-driven paths. You collaborate across ASU Local to ensure stakeholders are part of the design, implementation, and review process to consistently “fall forward fast” as we try new ways to engage students in 21st-century learning.
• Architect and lead support systems that will result in 95% student retention and a 75% on-time graduation rate. You support ASU Local site leadership, support staff, and Student Success Coaches in creating systems that proactively and reactively support students through the many obstacles students face on their path toward college completion and success. You systematically work to ensure that barriers related to financial aid, advising, and academic support are overcome and that site staff is delivering excellent support to students.
• Create an exceptional experience and student success training architecture and tools for site-based staff. Leading by example, you work with site leaders to architect and implement a training system that deeply engrains ASU Local signature practices into all ASU Local leadership and site-staff mentalities. In your first six months, you create and implement an exceptional staff training vision and professional development plan for the 2023-24 school year. You ensure that this training is hands-on and experiential, with a focus on mixing high-impact activities with meaningful deliverable creation. You collaborate deeply with the Director of ASU Local to ensure training is holistically connected to broader ASU Local goals and staff activities.
• Lead program/department operations: You work closely with the Director of ASU Local to build and nurture a diverse, high-performing, and values-aligned team. You ensure effective day-to-day operations and alignment of a rapidly evolving team. By managing meeting cadences, coordination, and alignment across strategic initiatives and learning offerings you create a positive work culture and your team is passionate about meeting goals and OKRs. You develop clear and consistent communications across teams and define and implement new processes to enhance coordination and efficiency. As the ASU Local team grows, you will ensure the effective day-to-day management of unit plans, teams, and deliverables you work within a fast-paced and changing environment that demands creativity, flexibility, and quick thinking.

Bachelor's degree in a field appropriate to the area of assignment AND eight (8) years of related administrative experience, which includes five (5) years of supervisory experience; OR, Twelve (12) years of related administrative experience, which includes five (5) years of supervisory experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

• Experience in teaching and learning environments for underserved and first-gen students in high school or higher education settings.
• Experience in teaching and leading schools or programs
• Experience and expertise supporting student success, retention, and program completion
• Experience in problem-solving, decision-making, planning, analyzing, coordinating activities, and establishing priorities.
• Experience in effectively managing, supervising, and evaluating assigned staff.
• Evidence of effective communication.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with a diverse population.

• Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse; required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work.
• Frequent bending, reaching, lifting, pushing and pulling up to 25 pounds.
• Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts.
• May be required to perform tasks in the field within and/or across University campuses.
• Ability to clearly communicate to perform essential functions.

About the Learning Enterprise
We believe that the rigid and linear design of traditional higher education is neither an effective ladder to social and economic opportunity for all learners nor is it responsive to rapidly evolving workforce needs. ASU has responded to these challenges with the creation of Learning Enterprise (LE). We are guided by the belief that everyone should have universal access to education and opportunity. At every stage of life.

LE re-imagines the role of universities in society and evolves the design of learning offerings. These products (LE’s learning offerings) are academically rigorous, tech-enabled, and outcomes-driven. They are stackable, accessible, and evidence-based — designed to respond to the needs of students and employers with the resources and values of the university.

LE‘s initial focus is on the following areas: foundational skills and mindsets, professional and technical career skills and personal development, cultural and civic learning.

At LE, we share a common set of values that guide our work and collaboration:

Scrappy. We are undaunted by challenges. We remain undeterred by anything that stands in the way of moving our vision forward. If we fall, we get up, over and over again. If it doesn’t exist, we create it. If something doesn’t work, we try something else.

Driven. We always push to be better for ourselves, for each other, and for our students. We are not defeated or guided by the status quo. We see what could be and relentlessly pursue it.

Intentional Architects. We know our attitude towards what we are doing will determine our success. We see the big picture and take deep pride in building every block that makes up our long-term vision. We are motivated by the potential of a transformed future while remaining firmly focused on tending to the tasks in front of us today.

Leading from the heart. We deeply care about people and their well-being. Everyone is unconditionally supported. We believe in human potential and invest in continuous growth.

Candid collaborators. We share ideas and feedback at all levels. We have strong opinions loosely held and intentionally engage in debate. We strive for clarity through direct and honest communication. We know our work is better for it.

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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