Assistant Director, Business and Society Programs

** Department
* * Booth Rustandy Center:
Business and Society Programs
** About the Department
** The Rustandy Center's mission is to advance research, promote innovation, and develop the people and practices to accelerate solving the social problems confronting our world. This position focuses on supporting the Rustandy Center's program goals to
1) equip Booth students and alumni to increase their social impact by applying their business and management skills, knowledge, and experience; and
2) be a leading university-based knowledge center for the next generation of impact investors, sustainability leaders, and professionals working at the intersection of business and society. The Assistant Director advances these goals through high-impact co-curricular programming in ESG and impact investing, climate and sustainability, and business and democracy.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.
Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.
Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.
As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

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** Job Summary
** The Assistant Director, Business and Society Programs supports the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of high-impact MBA student-facing co-curricular programs focused on social entrepreneurship, ESG/impact investing, climate innovation, and the intersection of business and democracy. These areas are key interests for Booth’s students and the Assistant Director will be both managing the programs day-to-day, and looking for ways to innovate to meet student interest in co-curricular learning and in careers in these emerging fields.

In this role, the Assistant Director supports cross-campus collaborations, manages student-facing programs and competitions, and advances the Rustandy Center’s strategic priorities. This is a hybrid position, based on the Hyde Park campus with regular travel to the Gleacher Center and occasional off-campus events.
** Responsibilities
* ** Provides program administration and execution support for the suite of MBA student-facing ESG and impact investing co-curricular programs, including the Steven Tarrson Impact Investment Fund, the Turner MIINT impact investing competition, and more.
* Supports the development and execution of sustainability and climate-related programming, ensuring a suite of relevant programs for students of business.
* Ensures relevant linkage between social entrepreneurship and impact investing programs to support growth of the Edwardson Social Entrepreneurship Program.
* Supports the development and execution of alumni programming within ESG, impact investing, and climate domains, including event coordination, communications, and logistics.
* Provides operational and logistical support for public programming initiatives, including the…