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The Associate Director will lead higher education reform initiatives focused on teaching, learning, character development, and student success. Responsibilities include developing frameworks, managing a community college cohort, facilitating leadership and faculty sessions, translating research into publications, cultivating funder relationships, overseeing grants and budgets up to $10 million, coordinating partners, and supervising staff. The role requires extensive higher education teaching and learning expertise, project leadership, executive communication, and experience working with college leaders and faculty.

Manages integrated communications, digital content, campaigns, brand stewardship, storytelling, owned channels, multimedia production, analytics, and creative vendors for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. The role supports Fellowship programs, Fellows, funders, partners, and governance communications while maintaining websites, newsletters, social media, email campaigns, templates, reporting, and content systems. It requires strong writing, editing, project management, design, media, and stakeholder coordination skills, with up to 20% domestic and international travel.

Provides budgeting, forecasting, grant accounting, financial reporting, and analysis for Aspen Institute programs. Maintains grant and accounting data, processes journal entries, reviews proposal budgets and agreements, monitors allocated costs, supports monthly financial reviews and audits, and prepares funder and management reports. The role partners extensively with program staff and financial leadership to ensure compliance, accurate forecasts, and sound accounting practices.

Executes external communications for the Stevens Initiative, including press releases, social media, newsletters, web content, messaging materials, and participant recruitment assets. Coordinates communications with internal teams and partners, maintains digital platforms, ensures branding and funder compliance, and manages contact data during migration from Constant Contact to Salesforce Marketing Cloud and CRM+. Provides project coordination and logistics support for youth events and convenings.

Develops and manages research-based curricula, learning sessions, case studies, facilitation materials, and practical tools for higher education leaders. Translates complex data into actionable content, analyzes participant feedback, coordinates quality reviews, and manages concurrent deliverables, schedules, stakeholders, and vendors. The role requires instructional design expertise, adult learning knowledge, strong communication, project management, and familiarity with higher education leadership, transfer, or workforce development.

Leads Aspen’s national and state-based higher education transfer initiatives, including institutional reform, technical assistance, executive convenings, stakeholder partnerships, grant reporting, budgets, and staff management. Develops tools using student outcome data, oversees complex multi-institution projects, supports fundraising, and collaborates with senior leaders to improve transfer pathways, degree completion, workforce alignment, and economic mobility.

Manage the Rising Leaders and Albright International Leaders Programs, including recruitment, applications, programming, events, communications, publications, logistics, documentation, and stakeholder coordination. Support Aspen Strategy Group initiatives through research, writing, editing, meeting preparation, conference execution, and newsletter contributions. The role requires independent project ownership, prioritization, discretion, strong organization, and collaboration in a fast-paced foreign policy environment.

Manages Aspen’s relationships and engagements with state and local government partners. Responsibilities include developing communications materials, coordinating the Safety Net Response Network, tracking cross-project execution, supporting government convenings, synthesizing insights, and representing the organization at public events. The role requires strong project management, relationship-building, communications, and public benefits expertise, with up to 20% domestic travel.

Supports cybersecurity policy programs and high-level convenings by coordinating agendas, speakers, meetings, events, stakeholder communications, briefing materials, membership relationships, and program tracking. The role manages event logistics, speaker engagement, follow-up, operational improvements, and sensitive information while coordinating multiple domestic and global cybersecurity initiatives.

Lead the editorial vision and production of publications for Philosophy & Society, ensuring high-quality outputs and managing editorial workflows.