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Department: Adele H. Stamp Student Union – Center for Campus Life
Reports To: Director, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Supervises Directly: Assistant Director for Student Engagement, Manager of MICA, two MICA Program Coordinators, the Unity Center, and Scholar in Residence
Supervises Indirectly: Program coordinators, administrative staff, Graduate Legal Aid staff, graduate assistants, interns, and undergraduate student employees
Position Summary
Reporting to the Director of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union (STAMP) and serving on STAMP’s senior leadership team, the Associate Director for Student Culture and Engagement provides strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership for a portfolio focused on student connection, belonging, culture, transition, and success. The portfolio encompasses Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA), the Unity Center, and Student Engagement programs that serve graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, and veteran/military-connected students, as well as Graduate Legal Aid.
The Associate Director establishes a cohesive strategic direction across distinct units, ensuring STAMP actively supports populations historically facing barriers to participation while honoring the unique mission, expertise, and community of each area. The role leads cross-functional campus partnerships, supervises multidisciplinary staff and academic scholars, serves as a primary relational responder for campus expressive activities, and oversees portfolio budgeting, assessment, and strategic alignment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
30% — Portfolio Leadership, Supervision, & Staff Development
- Supervisory Leadership: Directly supervise the Assistant Director for Student Engagement, Manager of the Unity Center, two MICA Program Coordinators, and Scholar in Residence. Provide indirect leadership to program coordinators, administrative staff, Graduate Legal Aid staff, graduate assistants, interns, and student employees.
- Personnel & Team Administration: Oversee recruitment, onboarding, coaching, performance evaluation, leave approvals, workload sustainability, succession planning, and professional development across all three direct reports in the portfolio.
- Scholar in Residence Direction: Provide strategic supervision to the Scholar in Residence, bridging academic inquiry and student affairs. Establish annual priorities and measures of success; align teaching, scholarship, research, advising, and grant-supported work with portfolio goals; and translate academic partnerships into co-curricular opportunities while respecting scholarly autonomy.
- Organizational Culture: Cultivate a culture of trust, accountability, shared learning, and collaboration. Enable staff to share resources and expertise across functional lines without diminishing population-specific programs and service integrity.
40% — Student Culture & Engagement
- Portfolio & Unit Oversight: Lead programs, services, and space utilization across MICA, the Unity Center, and Student Engagement areas (supporting graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, veteran/military-connected students, and Graduate Legal Aid).
- Program & Community Development: Design and evaluate responsive initiatives that promote belonging, leadership, and smooth academic/social transitions across diverse student populations.
- Targeted Access & Equity: Partner with unit leaders to identify and remove systemic barriers to participation, developing outreach strategies for historically underrepresented or non-traditionally engaged student groups without treating any population as monolithic.
- Academic Integration: Integrate scholarly work, faculty/staff learning communities, and interdisciplinary partnerships into Unity Center and MICA programming.
- Specialized Program Oversight:
- Support the Assistant Director for Student Engagement in administering Graduate Legal Aid, ensuring appropriate staffing, fee-funding stewardship, utilization tracking, service continuity, and administrative boundaries.
- Ensure Graduate Student Life maintains appropriate collaborative support for the Graduate Student Government while keeping primary focus on broader graduate student engagement.
15% — Campus Partnerships, Expressive Activity, & Institutional Engagement
- Relational Response for Expressive Activity: Serve as a primary relational responder and co-facilitator in STAMP’s expressive-activity management process. Maintain clear communication with organizers and student leaders, share policy and resource information, co-facilitate event planning, coordinate STAMP support staff, and lead relational de-escalation. (Note: Event and Guest Services retains primary responsibility for event operations, facility scheduling, and policy enforcement).
- Institutional Advocacy & Representation: Represent STAMP on divisional and university committees focused on student success, culture, access, and campus climate.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Convene academic departments, administrative units, the Graduate School, alumni, and community partners to streamline resources, consult on cultural responsiveness, and coordinate support for emerging student needs.
15% — Strategy, Assessment, Resources, & Departmental Leadership
- Strategic Planning & Assessment: Establish portfolio goals aligned with STAMP, divisional, and university priorities. Partner with STAMP Assessment and Research to evaluate program reach, student belonging, resource accessibility, and partnership impact to drive data-informed improvements.
- Fiscal Stewardship: Provide fiscal oversight for operating, programmatic, student-fee, grant, and donor funds. Identify and pursue external funding opportunities, including grants, sponsorships, and advancement partnerships.
- Departmental Leadership: Participate in STAMP-wide strategic planning, leadership team decision-making, policy formulation, critical-incident response, and inter-departmental collaboration across operations, facilities, communications, and student leadership.
- Perform other assigned duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Professional Experience
- Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, education, public administration, organizational leadership, social sciences, or a related field.
- Progressive Leadership: 10 or more years of progressively responsible leadership and administrative experience in higher education or student affairs.
- Supervisory Expertise: 5 or more years of experience directly supervising professional staff, including managers, supervisors, and multi-tiered teams.
- Portfolio Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading a department, center, or portfolio encompassing multiple functional program areas, professional disciplines, and diverse student populations.
Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Governance
- Unified Strategic Direction: Proven ability to establish a cohesive portfolio strategy while preserving and respecting the distinct identities, missions, histories, and specialized expertise of individual units.
- Organizational Change & Alignment: Experience leading organizational change, program realignment, and cross-functional initiatives that bridge academic and student affairs.
- Policy & Regulatory Translation: Ability to interpret and translate evolving institutional, legal, and regulatory requirements into clear, mission-aligned practice and policy.
Student Engagement, Belonging, & Inclusive Practice
- Student Development Knowledge: Deep knowledge of student development, engagement, transition, belonging, community development, and co-curricular learning.
- Multicultural Engagement & Equity: Advanced expertise in multicultural engagement, cultural centers, population-based student services, and community advocacy, with the ability to apply culturally responsive practices without treating any group as monolithic.
- Specialized Student Populations: Demonstrated success advancing access, engagement, and success for graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, and veteran/military-connected students, as well as populations historically encountering institutional barriers.
- Facility & Campus Space Leadership: Experience opening, operating, developing, leading, or assessing a student center, cultural center, or community-focused campus space.
Specialized Supervision & Academic Integration
- Academic & Scholarly Integration: Experience supervising or collaborating with faculty, scholars, and senior educators to align teaching, research, publication, grants, advising, and co-curricular programs.
- Boundary Stewardship: Ability to maintain appropriate administrative, supervisory, and organizational boundaries when overseeing specialized professional services and high-expertise staff.
Campus Climate, Expressive Activity, & Crisis Response
- Relational Event & Demonstration Response: Demonstrated ability to lead relational responses during expressive activities, demonstrations, and sensitive campus events through proactive communication, relationship-building, de-escalation, and cross-departmental coordination.
- Operational Boundary Clarity: Clear ability to distinguish relational and educational responsibilities from operational compliance and enforcement functions, coordinating effectively with institutional authorities.
- Discretion & Critical Response: Ability to manage competing priorities, respond to emerging concerns, and exercise high discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive student, personnel, legal, or institutional matters.
Assessment, Operations & Resource Stewardship
- Data-Informed Decision Making: Expertise in program development, learning outcomes, continuous improvement, and leveraging qualitative/quantitative data, research, and student feedback to establish priorities and guide decisions.
- Fiscal & Student-Fee Stewardship: Experience managing complex budgets, student-fee funding allocations, and multi-stream operational funds.
- Resource Development: Skill in securing and managing grants, sponsorships, fundraising initiatives, and external strategic partnerships.
Communication & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Cross-Boundary Collaboration: Proven ability to build productive relationships across academic, administrative, and divisional boundaries, facilitating complex conversations involving differing perspectives and institutional responsibilities.
- Multi-Audience Communication: Superior oral, written, interpersonal, and public communication skills across diverse constituencies, including students, faculty, staff, senior administrators, families, alumni, and community partners.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable productivity, data, and collaboration platforms.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Experience: Eight (8) years of residence hall, student engagement, or student affairs management. Three (3) years of experience supervising or managing professional staff.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of student affairs, resident life, program development and administration, and event planning.
- Knowledge of undergraduate students’ needs and aspirations.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Skill in the use of Microsoft Office and Google Workspace products.
- Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, regulations, and laws.
- Ability to multitask while demonstrating a commitment to customer service.
Additional Job Details
Required Application Materials: Resume, cover letter, and list of references
Best Consideration Date: November 29, 2026
Posting Close Date: December 6, 2026
Job Risks
Not Applicable to This Position
Financial Disclosure Required
No
For more information on Financial Disclosure, please visit Maryland's State Ethics Commission website.
Department
VPSA-SU-Stamp Student Union
Worker Sub-Type
Staff Regular
Salary Range
$145,000-$165,000
Benefits Summary
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Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify anyone from employment. Before any adverse decision, the finalist will have an opportunity to provide information to the University regarding disclosable background check information. The University reserves the right to rescind the offer of employment or otherwise decline or terminate employment if the information reported by the background check is deemed incompatible with the position, regardless of when the background check is completed.
Employment Eligibility
The successful candidate must complete employment eligibility verification (on Form I-9) by presenting documents that establish identity and work authorization within the timeframe required by federal immigration law, and where applicable, to demonstrate renewed employment authorization. Failure to complete employment eligibility verification or reverification within the timeframe set forth by law may result in suspension or termination of employment.
EEO Statement
The University of Maryland, College Park is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment. Please read the University’s Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy.
Title IX Non-Discrimination Notice
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Job Description Summary
Department: Adele H. Stamp Student Union – Center for Campus Life
Reports To: Director, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Supervises Directly: Assistant Director for Student Engagement, Manager of MICA, two MICA Program Coordinators, the Unity Center, and Scholar in Residence
Supervises Indirectly: Program coordinators, administrative staff, Graduate Legal Aid staff, graduate assistants, interns, and undergraduate student employees
Position Summary
Reporting to the Director of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union (STAMP) and serving on STAMP’s senior leadership team, the Associate Director for Student Culture and Engagement provides strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership for a portfolio focused on student connection, belonging, culture, transition, and success. The portfolio encompasses Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA), the Unity Center, and Student Engagement programs that serve graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, and veteran/military-connected students, as well as Graduate Legal Aid.
The Associate Director establishes a cohesive strategic direction across distinct units, ensuring STAMP actively supports populations historically facing barriers to participation while honoring the unique mission, expertise, and community of each area. The role leads cross-functional campus partnerships, supervises multidisciplinary staff and academic scholars, serves as a primary relational responder for campus expressive activities, and oversees portfolio budgeting, assessment, and strategic alignment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
30% — Portfolio Leadership, Supervision, & Staff Development
- Supervisory Leadership: Directly supervise the Assistant Director for Student Engagement, Manager of the Unity Center, two MICA Program Coordinators, and Scholar in Residence. Provide indirect leadership to program coordinators, administrative staff, Graduate Legal Aid staff, graduate assistants, interns, and student employees.
- Personnel & Team Administration: Oversee recruitment, onboarding, coaching, performance evaluation, leave approvals, workload sustainability, succession planning, and professional development across all three direct reports in the portfolio.
- Scholar in Residence Direction: Provide strategic supervision to the Scholar in Residence, bridging academic inquiry and student affairs. Establish annual priorities and measures of success; align teaching, scholarship, research, advising, and grant-supported work with portfolio goals; and translate academic partnerships into co-curricular opportunities while respecting scholarly autonomy.
- Organizational Culture: Cultivate a culture of trust, accountability, shared learning, and collaboration. Enable staff to share resources and expertise across functional lines without diminishing population-specific programs and service integrity.
40% — Student Culture & Engagement
- Portfolio & Unit Oversight: Lead programs, services, and space utilization across MICA, the Unity Center, and Student Engagement areas (supporting graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, veteran/military-connected students, and Graduate Legal Aid).
- Program & Community Development: Design and evaluate responsive initiatives that promote belonging, leadership, and smooth academic/social transitions across diverse student populations.
- Targeted Access & Equity: Partner with unit leaders to identify and remove systemic barriers to participation, developing outreach strategies for historically underrepresented or non-traditionally engaged student groups without treating any population as monolithic.
- Academic Integration: Integrate scholarly work, faculty/staff learning communities, and interdisciplinary partnerships into Unity Center and MICA programming.
- Specialized Program Oversight:
- Support the Assistant Director for Student Engagement in administering Graduate Legal Aid, ensuring appropriate staffing, fee-funding stewardship, utilization tracking, service continuity, and administrative boundaries.
- Ensure Graduate Student Life maintains appropriate collaborative support for the Graduate Student Government while keeping primary focus on broader graduate student engagement.
15% — Campus Partnerships, Expressive Activity, & Institutional Engagement
- Relational Response for Expressive Activity: Serve as a primary relational responder and co-facilitator in STAMP’s expressive-activity management process. Maintain clear communication with organizers and student leaders, share policy and resource information, co-facilitate event planning, coordinate STAMP support staff, and lead relational de-escalation. (Note: Event and Guest Services retains primary responsibility for event operations, facility scheduling, and policy enforcement).
- Institutional Advocacy & Representation: Represent STAMP on divisional and university committees focused on student success, culture, access, and campus climate.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Convene academic departments, administrative units, the Graduate School, alumni, and community partners to streamline resources, consult on cultural responsiveness, and coordinate support for emerging student needs.
15% — Strategy, Assessment, Resources, & Departmental Leadership
- Strategic Planning & Assessment: Establish portfolio goals aligned with STAMP, divisional, and university priorities. Partner with STAMP Assessment and Research to evaluate program reach, student belonging, resource accessibility, and partnership impact to drive data-informed improvements.
- Fiscal Stewardship: Provide fiscal oversight for operating, programmatic, student-fee, grant, and donor funds. Identify and pursue external funding opportunities, including grants, sponsorships, and advancement partnerships.
- Departmental Leadership: Participate in STAMP-wide strategic planning, leadership team decision-making, policy formulation, critical-incident response, and inter-departmental collaboration across operations, facilities, communications, and student leadership.
- Perform other assigned duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Professional Experience
- Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, education, public administration, organizational leadership, social sciences, or a related field.
- Progressive Leadership: 10 or more years of progressively responsible leadership and administrative experience in higher education or student affairs.
- Supervisory Expertise: 5 or more years of experience directly supervising professional staff, including managers, supervisors, and multi-tiered teams.
- Portfolio Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading a department, center, or portfolio encompassing multiple functional program areas, professional disciplines, and diverse student populations.
Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Governance
- Unified Strategic Direction: Proven ability to establish a cohesive portfolio strategy while preserving and respecting the distinct identities, missions, histories, and specialized expertise of individual units.
- Organizational Change & Alignment: Experience leading organizational change, program realignment, and cross-functional initiatives that bridge academic and student affairs.
- Policy & Regulatory Translation: Ability to interpret and translate evolving institutional, legal, and regulatory requirements into clear, mission-aligned practice and policy.
Student Engagement, Belonging, & Inclusive Practice
- Student Development Knowledge: Deep knowledge of student development, engagement, transition, belonging, community development, and co-curricular learning.
- Multicultural Engagement & Equity: Advanced expertise in multicultural engagement, cultural centers, population-based student services, and community advocacy, with the ability to apply culturally responsive practices without treating any group as monolithic.
- Specialized Student Populations: Demonstrated success advancing access, engagement, and success for graduate, transfer, off-campus/commuter, and veteran/military-connected students, as well as populations historically encountering institutional barriers.
- Facility & Campus Space Leadership: Experience opening, operating, developing, leading, or assessing a student center, cultural center, or community-focused campus space.
Specialized Supervision & Academic Integration
- Academic & Scholarly Integration: Experience supervising or collaborating with faculty, scholars, and senior educators to align teaching, research, publication, grants, advising, and co-curricular programs.
- Boundary Stewardship: Ability to maintain appropriate administrative, supervisory, and organizational boundaries when overseeing specialized professional services and high-expertise staff.
Campus Climate, Expressive Activity, & Crisis Response
- Relational Event & Demonstration Response: Demonstrated ability to lead relational responses during expressive activities, demonstrations, and sensitive campus events through proactive communication, relationship-building, de-escalation, and cross-departmental coordination.
- Operational Boundary Clarity: Clear ability to distinguish relational and educational responsibilities from operational compliance and enforcement functions, coordinating effectively with institutional authorities.
- Discretion & Critical Response: Ability to manage competing priorities, respond to emerging concerns, and exercise high discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive student, personnel, legal, or institutional matters.
Assessment, Operations & Resource Stewardship
- Data-Informed Decision Making: Expertise in program development, learning outcomes, continuous improvement, and leveraging qualitative/quantitative data, research, and student feedback to establish priorities and guide decisions.
- Fiscal & Student-Fee Stewardship: Experience managing complex budgets, student-fee funding allocations, and multi-stream operational funds.
- Resource Development: Skill in securing and managing grants, sponsorships, fundraising initiatives, and external strategic partnerships.
Communication & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Cross-Boundary Collaboration: Proven ability to build productive relationships across academic, administrative, and divisional boundaries, facilitating complex conversations involving differing perspectives and institutional responsibilities.
- Multi-Audience Communication: Superior oral, written, interpersonal, and public communication skills across diverse constituencies, including students, faculty, staff, senior administrators, families, alumni, and community partners.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable productivity, data, and collaboration platforms.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Experience: Eight (8) years of residence hall, student engagement, or student affairs management. Three (3) years of experience supervising or managing professional staff.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of student affairs, resident life, program development and administration, and event planning.
- Knowledge of undergraduate students’ needs and aspirations.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Skill in the use of Microsoft Office and Google Workspace products.
- Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, regulations, and laws.
- Ability to multitask while demonstrating a commitment to customer service.
Additional Job Details
Required Application Materials: Resume, cover letter, and list of references
Best Consideration Date: November 29, 2026
Posting Close Date: December 6, 2026
Job Risks
Not Applicable to This Position
Financial Disclosure Required
No
For more information on Financial Disclosure, please visit Maryland's State Ethics Commission website.
Department
VPSA-SU-Stamp Student Union
Worker Sub-Type
Staff Regular
Salary Range
$145,000-$165,000
Benefits Summary
.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify anyone from employment. Before any adverse decision, the finalist will have an opportunity to provide information to the University regarding disclosable background check information. The University reserves the right to rescind the offer of employment or otherwise decline or terminate employment if the information reported by the background check is deemed incompatible with the position, regardless of when the background check is completed.
Employment Eligibility
The successful candidate must complete employment eligibility verification (on Form I-9) by presenting documents that establish identity and work authorization within the timeframe required by federal immigration law, and where applicable, to demonstrate renewed employment authorization. Failure to complete employment eligibility verification or reverification within the timeframe set forth by law may result in suspension or termination of employment.
EEO Statement
The University of Maryland, College Park is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment. Please read the University’s Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy.
Title IX Non-Discrimination Notice
Resources
- Learn how military skills translate to civilian opportunities with O*Net Online
Search Firm Managed Recruitment
There are some positions that are not advertised on this career site as the search is being managed by a Search Firm.
Associate Director Job Roles in Maryland
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Which companies sponsor visas for associate directors in Maryland?
Maryland's strongest sponsoring employers for associate director roles include Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Maryland Medical System, MedStar Health, NIH-affiliated research organizations in Bethesda, and biopharma companies along the I-270 corridor such as AstraZeneca and Emergent BioSolutions. Large federal contractors headquartered in the state, including Leidos and Booz Allen Hamilton, also sponsor at the associate director level for program and operations leadership roles.
Which visa types realistically fit associate director roles in Maryland?
Associate director roles typically qualify as specialty occupations requiring a directly related bachelor's degree or higher, making the H-1B visa the most common sponsorship path. Employers file a Labor Condition Application and an I-129 petition with USCIS. H-1B1 visa applies to Chilean and Singaporean nationals. E-3 visa covers Australian nationals. For longer-term candidates, EB-2 or EB-3 employment-based green cards through PERM labor certification are realistic pathways given Maryland's depth of large institutional employers.
How to find associate director visa sponsorship jobs in Maryland?
Migrate Mate lists Maryland associate director roles specifically filtered to employers with verified visa sponsorship history, covering the Baltimore, Bethesda, Rockville, and College Park markets. Because associate director titles vary across industries, searching by both the exact title and related functional titles such as program director or operations director helps surface the full range of sponsored openings from Maryland's healthcare, research, and biopharma sectors.
Which cities in Maryland have the most associate director sponsorship jobs?
Bethesda and Rockville lead due to concentration of NIH campuses, federal health agencies, and I-270 biopharma employers. Baltimore is a close second, driven by Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and MedStar. College Park sees sponsorship activity tied to University of Maryland's research operations. Silver Spring and Gaithersburg also generate associate director openings from government contractors and life sciences companies operating in Montgomery County.
Are there state-specific factors that affect visa sponsorship for associate directors in Maryland?
Maryland's heavy federal and quasi-federal employer base means many associate director roles require security clearances, which can complicate sponsorship for candidates not yet eligible for clearance. However, the state's university hospital systems and private biopharma sector regularly sponsor without clearance requirements. Maryland's proximity to Washington D.C. also means some roles are cross-posted by D.C.-headquartered organizations that maintain Maryland offices, expanding the effective sponsoring employer pool.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored associate director jobs in Maryland?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.