Required Education:

• Master's Degree or higher from an accredited institution

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Continuing education, executive education, or professional education
• University-based or higher education program management
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling open enrollment or certificate portfolios
• Proven P&L responsibility and revenue growth leadership
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder academic partnerships
• Strong understanding of youth education, workforce development, and lifelong learning markets
• Knowledge of:
  • Open enrollment and continuing education business models
  • Youth education, pre-college pathways, and academic enrichment
  • Professional micro-credential and workforce credentialing markets
  • Higher education governance and quality assurance frameworks
• Skills:
  • Strategic portfolio design and market positioning
  • Financial modeling, pricing strategy, and margin management
  • Partnership development and stakeholder management
  • Program launch, scaling, and lifecycle management
  • Executive-level communication and presentation
• Abilities:
  • Lead cross-functional academic, marketing, admissions, and operations teams
  • Operate in a complex global university environment
  • Build high-trust relationships with faculty and external partners
  • Drive growth while maintaining academic excellence and compliance

Preferred Education:

• Doctoral Degree or terminal degree
• Certified Professional in Learning & Performance (CPLP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Continuing Education Professional (CCEP)
• Safeguarding / Child Protection Certification (for youth programs)

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of:
  • UAE education regulation, youth safeguarding frameworks, and accreditation environments
  • Regional workforce priorities and national development agendas
  • Global micro-credential frameworks and digital credentialing ecosystems
• Skills:
  • International market entry and regional expansion
  • Institutional partnership negotiation
  • Thought leadership and brand positioning
• Abilities:
  • Operate at executive and ministerial levels
  • Represent NYUAD at global education forums and regional summits

Additional Information:

• 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.

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