Associate Dean for Residential Life and Dining

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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Overview

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers to establish a new kind of independent educational institution that would be relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries. MIT is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Position

Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean for Student Life, the Associate Dean for Residential Life and Dining supervises residential life programs, housing assignments, campus dining, and summer housing for students and conferences. The Associate Dean provides leadership for residential life programs that support the division's mission and strategic vision, collaborates with the Senior Associate Dean in the development of positive working relationships with the House Masters, supervises housing for summer conference programs with annual revenues in excess of $2 million dollars, oversees strategic planning for housing assignments of graduate and undergraduate students, and supervises the development of housing projections and reports. The Associate Dean is responsible for assisting the Senior Associate Dean in the development of vision and strategic management for contract dining operations including retail, residential, convenience store, catering, conference/business center services, vending, food trucks, pubs, delivery services, off-campus restaurants included in MIT's TechCASH program and other specialty services providing food to the campus. The current dining program includes approximately 20 retail and residential locations with over $20 million in annual revenue. The Associate Dean directly supervises the Director for Residential Life Programs, Associate Director for Dining Operations, Assistant Director for Housing Placements, Manager for Summer Conference Housing and four Administrative Assistants.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, business administration, or a related field is required (Master's degree is strongly preferred) with seven to ten years of progressively significant responsibilities in a mid- to senior-level position within a large, comprehensive residential life system that preferably includes oversight of dining services in a fast-paced university environment. The successful candidate should also possess a vision for effective and creative comprehensive student housing and dining programs; demonstrated commitment to customer service; strong management, administrative, budgeting and data-driven assessment skills; experience in serving as the external representative of the department; and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse internal and external constituencies.

Application and Nomination

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. To apply for this position please click on the Apply link below, complete the brief application form, and upload your resume and position-specific cover letter. Nominations for this position may be emailed to Mark Hall at mah@sjgsearch.com. If you are unable to submit materials electronically, please call SJG at 413-529-2895.

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