Senior Director, External Relations

Director will lead an integrated External Relations team responsible for executing employer engagement strategies across established and emerging industries, informed by labor-market trends, employer intelligence, student demand, and institutional priorities. They will determine where and how Careers should invest its employer-facing resources to strengthen existing recruiting channels and develop new sources of opportunity. The selected candidate will connect employer and industry engagement with Stern's broader institutional resources and priorities, identifying opportunities to deepen strategically important relationships and address gaps in priority markets. The Senior Director will mobilize Stern's alumni, faculty, experiential learning, student engagement, and other assets to develop broader institutional partnerships that create sustained value for students, employers, and the School. They will also connect market insights, relationships, and activities across Stern to identify gaps and opportunities, coordinate institutional responses, and ensure strategically important external relationships extend beyond individual programs or points of contact. Responsibilities The selected candidate must have a bachelor's degree and at least ten years of progressively responsible professional experience in human resources, recruiting, executive search, external relations, or entrepreneurial experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The candidate must have experience with client/relationship management, managing staff, and administering budgets, as well as a proven ability to develop and execute strategy, with strong business development instincts and a track record of building external partnerships that deliver measurable value. Excellent relationship management and communication skills, along with strong analytical and decision-making skills, are required. The candidate must have team leadership and staff development expertise, with the ability to build, develop, and retain high-performing, diverse teams, as well as experience leading through influence across multiple internal stakeholders and functions. Experience designing and implementing multi-year strategies with measurable outcomes is also required. Qualifications In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $110,000.00 to USD $150,000.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. Â New York University Stern School of Business , located in the heart of Greenwich Village and deeply connected with the City for which it is named, is one of the nation's premier management education schools and research centers. NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of transformational programs at the graduate, undergraduate and executive levels, all of them enriched by the dynamism and deep resources of one of the world's business capitals. NYU Stern is a welcoming community that inspires its members to embrace and lead change in a rapidly transforming world. For more information about working at NYU please visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/about/careers-at-nyu.html . NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen. NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels. Â Salary: 110000.00 PI287035274