This high-profile position leads the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB), whose mission is to prepare individuals and organizations with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to embed social and environmental sustainability into core business strategy and drive better societal and financial performance. CSB implements its mission across three core pillars ? Education, Research, and Engagement, with a focus on students, academics, alumni, and practitioners. Since CSB?s founding in 2015, the organization has become a go-to destination for people looking for practical, action-oriented insights, training and tools that drive better performance for companies and society.

The Director is responsible for the development and execution of the strategic vision of the Center, with oversight across operations, stakeholder engagement, fiscal management, development, and programming. The incumbent is responsible for the management and raising of CSB?s entirely self-funded annual budget, with assistance from Stern and NYU development departments, as well as teaching courses to undergraduates, graduates, and executives. The Director leads stakeholder engagement across NYU and Stern faculty, administrators and students as well as with corporate and investor practitioners, funders, media and others.

Principal Duties:

General CSB Management:

? Manage the overall strategic direction, decision-making and management of CSB.

? Drive strategic planning, fundraising and stakeholder engagement to achieve mission. Develop, implement, and monitor the strategic plan and annual work plans with the CSB team.

? Oversee the direction of the CSB research agenda. Cultivate topics and funding streams for existing and new research initiatives. Undertake practitioner-oriented research in sustainable business, both independently and in partnership with nonprofits, government, corporates and investors. Continue to build traction for core existing research initiatives, including CSB ROSI, SSMI and private equity, amongst others.

? Recruit, support, manage, and build the 15-person CSB team.

? Design and manage the approximately $3M annual budget (ranges from $2-3M based on research needs). Identify new revenue streams. Raise restricted and unrestricted funds to meet the strategic plan from individual donors, foundations, corporates, and government agencies. The director is supported by and coordinates with Stern and NYU development liaisons and CSB?s associate director of development.

? Recruit and steward CSB?s C-suite level Advisory Board to leverage value-driven insights, governance feedback, and strategic introductions and advocacy.

? Engage and recruit other advisory bodies including Advisors, Research Scholars, and Faculty Advisory Council.

Education:

? Design and develop curriculum for the Sustainable Business and Innovation specialization and concentration at Stern.

? Teach courses on sustainable business to undergraduate, graduate, and executive MBAs. Engage practitioners and business leaders as guest speakers to provide applied insight to students.

? Oversee the development of sustainable business programming for students: courses, experiential learning opportunities, internships, mentor programs, boot camps and extracurricular offerings to ensure that students attain the necessary topical knowledge, skills and tools to implement sustainable business practices in their careers.

? Manage the development of programming for executives and practitioners on sustainability for both open-enrollment offerings as well as bespoke, customized education for upskilling executives and corporate teams. Train executives in sustainability practices and opportunities material to various businesses and industries. Cultivate pipeline of corporate partners.

Thought Leadership, Networking and Outreach:

? Serve as a thought leader in sustainable business through public speaking to disseminate CSB research and raise the profile of Stern and CSB. Write thought leadership pieces on CSB?s research and activities in business media, academic journals, and industry trades.

? Oversee CSB?s communications and outreach strategy and play a leading role in its execution, supported by the CSB head of communications and NYU Stern Public Affairs. Serve as an expert for media coverage on sustainability (develop media relationships).

? Develop and host multi-stakeholder events and workshops for students and professionals that showcase CSB?s original research, including CSB?s annual Practice Forum. Build Stern and CSB?s position as a convener of professionals, investors, alumni, foundations, government and academics on practical research in sustainable business.

? Build collaborations and partnerships across Stern departments, faculty, and NYU administration to execute on CSB?s mission and support and leverage sustainability research by academics across Stern and NYU.

? Recruit practitioners across industries (public and private) and NYU alumni to support CSB initiatives as well as Stern students through career development, internship opportunities, mentorship, advising, as well as funding support.

Institutional Impact

The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) functions as an international thought leader on sustainability in a corporate context by sponsoring speaker series, fellowships, conferences, experiential learning initiatives, and research publications, published business cases, along with undergrad, grad, and executive education classes. The Center has a $3.M budget, 15 staff, 30+ annual events, 800+ alumni in sustainability managed and engaged, a network of 6,000 stakeholders, and thousands of students and executives served through our educational programs annually.

As the Academic Advisor for the specialization and concentration in Sustainable Business and Innovation, the position liaises with the faculty in the Business & Society Program Area providing curricular oversight and feedback. Lead the course design and syllabus development of the core Sustainability for Competitive Advantage course; train other faculty to teach the foundational concepts.

Serve as the advisor to the student-run Social Impact and Sustainability Association providing support and insight to the hundreds of members.

Authority and Accountability

The Director has oversight for all of CSB?s internal engagement, operations and policies and ensuring compliance with NYU and NYU Stern policies. The Director oversees all work and deliverables at CSB; is a key stakeholder and advisor to the Business & Society Program Area; serves as the co-director of the Undergraduate concentration and the academic director of the MBA specialization; coordinates and collaborates across NYU through the Office of Sustainability, President?s Office, Provost?s office and other departments, as needed.

Critical Thinking and Decision Making

The Director serves as the final decision-maker for all CSB programing, research, external engagement, communications, fiscal management, staffing, and operational issues. The Director has oversight over the research agendas and strategic direction of CSB.

Internal/External Contacts

The Director works with students enrolled in classes and across the specialization (120+ directly a year). Cultivates relationships with industry, nonprofit and governmental leaders. Recruits practitioners for research and student endeavors. Engages thousands of executives through open enrollment courses and bespoke executive education. Liaises across NYU with students, administrators and faculty; works as needed with the NYU Office of Sustainability. Serves as the executor and principal investigator for all legal contracts with external stakeholders and on all foundation and government grants.

Financial/Budget Responsibility

Responsible for raising and managing an approximately $3M budget.

Wage Transparency Statement

In compliance with NYC?s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $275,000 - $375,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 12 months) and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. 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.

Required education

· Advanced degree required

Required experience

· Extensive executive leadership and work experience

· Leadership and successful execution in sustainable business with corporates and/or investors

· Experience successfully running, growing and fund-raising for an NGO or an initiative/center

· Teaching experience is preferred, not required

Required knowledge, skills, abilities

· Excellent people, organizational, strategic and time management skills

· Excellent communication skills

· Excellent fund-raising skills

· Deep knowledge of material sustainability topics as related to corporate and investor sustainability

· Good knowledge of corporate finance and asset management strategies

· Good mentorship and teaching capacity

· Ability to juggle many activities and tasks

· Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously

· A robust professional network across public, civic and private sectors preferred

Submit a CV, Cover letter and teaching evaluations (if available). 

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