Director, New Brunswick Center

Classification Title: Director, New Brunswick Center

Salary: $96,119.00

Department: New Brunswick Center

Pay Grade: ADM8

Reports To: Assistant Dean of Urban Satellite Centers and Community Initiatives

FLSA Status: Exempt

Unit: Administrative

Opening Date: 4/25/2025

Closing Date: 5/9/2025 11:59 p.m.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

The Director, New Brunswick Center serves as the lead administrator and is responsible for all day-to-day operations at the Center, including personnel, facilities, academic, and student services. The Director collaborates closely with the Assistant Dean and with various internal and external stakeholders.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

Recruits new students and conducts various outreach initiatives with program expansion as a major goal.

Provides for student and academic support services for Center students.

Manages a staff of professional and support personnel and oversees their training, motivation, and performance appraisal in collaboration with the Assistant Dean.

Recommends course offerings and cancellations, based on student needs, and schedules times and locations to Assistant Dean.

Conducts ongoing evaluations of programs and faculty, makes recommendations for changes when appropriate, and develops programs when necessary in collaboration with the Assistant Dean.

Maintains close working relationship with the New Brunswick Public Schools, as well as other neighboring school districts such as North Brunswick, Highland Park, and East Brunswick; Provides programming for and services to its students, as requested and where appropriate.

Coordinates promotion and publicity with the Marketing and Communications Department.

Collects data to support funding proposals and actively works with the Assistant Dean and Grants Department to develop funding requests.

Serves on various College, county, and state committees, task forces, and advisory boards.

Maintains regular liaison with the local business community, both to serve their needs and elicit their support.

Manages the Center's operational and capital budgets in collaboration with the Assistant Dean of Urban Satellite Centers and Community Initiatives.

Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree;
• Three (3) years' experience in counseling or advising in a higher education environment;
• Two (2) years' administrative and program development experience;
• Two (2) years' supervisory experience;
• Strong computer skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office;
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills; and
• English/Spanish bilingual.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of Colleague or other student record system.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Hearing 1: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Talking 1: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity 1: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

SCHEDULE: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

May require occasional travel

RETIREMENT: Pension Eligible

NJ First Act

Any Middlesex College employee hired after September 1, 2011 will have to meet the New Jersey residency law requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Middlesex College is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, familial status, religion, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for service in the armed forces of the United States, or disability.

Affirmative Action and Compliance Statement

Middlesex College is firmly committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. The College will implement this policy to assure that the educational programs, activities, services, benefits and employment opportunities offered by the College are available to all persons regardless of sex, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, nationality, color, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, age, handicap (and/or disability), service in the armed forces, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, refusal to submit to genetic tests, or refusal to make available results of genetic tests, in accordance with State and Federal laws. All employees and students are expected to accept these principles and to reflect their spirit in everyday relationships with fellow employees and students. Inquiries regarding compliance may be directed to the Affirmative Action Officer, Middlesex College, Chambers Hall, 2600 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, New Jersey 08818-3050.