Director, TeamsHaas (4551C), Haas School of Business - 80132

Director, TeamsHaas (4551C), Haas School of Business - 80132 About Berkeley

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Departmental Overview

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles : Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment, conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.

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The Program is core co-curricular program designed to support academic team development by providing students with an evidence-based team framework, tools, and coaching. Designed to enhance team effectiveness, the program supports academic learning, cultivates conditions for leadership growth, and serves as a resource for faculty who use team-based learning pedagogies.

The Haas School of Business embraces flexible working arrangements for its employees. Exact arrangements are determined in partnership with your supervisor to meet role responsibilities and department needs, and are subject to change.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: 08/14/2025.

Responsibilities

Using specialized knowledge of learning theory, counsels students and develops and implements programs to students to enhance their academic success.

The Director of delivers a core, evidence-based academic program that serves over 1,500 MBAs and undergraduates annually, while also serving as a thought partner to faculty who teach project-based courses. This program provides a common framework, tools, techniques, and coaching, empowering students to cultivate collaborative team dynamics that promote academic learning.

The program, under the director's stewardship, also fosters leadership development by utilizing academic teams as a "sandbox" for students to practice and master the collaborative leadership competencies as they tackle both low- and high-stakes academic challenges that necessitate exploration, experimentation, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving.

plays a pivotal role in cultivating our distinctive Berkeley-Haas culture through the design of programming and coaching that reinforce our defining principles. In partnership with the faculty architect, the Director of and the coaching team model, develop programming, and create conditions that encourage students to:

• Question the status quo by championing bold ideas and taking intelligent risks to solve complex problems.
• Engage with collaborative confidence using evidence and analysis, while also creating the conditions for learning and experimentation.
• Go beyond themselves to be stewards of their teams and to take a longer view of their actions and decisions.
• Be students always by engaging with curiosity and seeking out diverse perspectives to foster intellectual, personal, and team development.

Utilizing specialized expertise, applies program responsibility for a broad academic discipline or student category to develop and present the Program to students to enhance their learning capabilities in groups, or 1:1, for a wide range of issues, including: the discipline of team dyanmics and development to promote academic success and our Berkeley-Haas defining principles.

• Responsible for the execution and delivery of the program for all three MBA Programs, the UGBA Program, and project based courses impacting over 1500 students a year with nearly 300 workshop touchpoints. The goal of the program is to bridge evidence with practice through the delivery of content, tools, and executive coaching.
• Responsible for creating a distinctive experience that allows students to benefit from the unique evidence-based research assets of UC Berkeley in parallel with the global innovation-based geography of the Silicon Valley.
• Responsible for facilitating core modules and identifying expert facilitators to augment as needed based on the programming needs.
• Responsible for administering the full range of the program's operational requirements, including short and long-term planning.
• Responsible for designing new programming in partnership with the faculty advisor to support team development, academic learning, and leadership development in various educational contexts across the MBA and UGBA programs.

Augments academic programming with team and 1:1 coaching to support learning and development.

• Responsible for creating the conditions, curriculum, and coaching support needed to integrate a multiplex student population to enhance UC Berkeley's capacity for interdisciplinary learning and to amplify the development of leaders who can navigate and steward complex global contexts.
• Provide coaching to teams that experience challenging team dynamics that are impacting the student experience and academic performance.
• Provides 1:1 coaching for students navigating challenging team dynamics.
• Provides mediation methods to support students in engaging in interpersonal discussions to promote effective communication across differences and opposing views.

Designs, develops, implements, and delivers multi-format programs and teacher training for a broad academic discipline to enhance the learning and teaching process for students.

• Responsible for designing the workshops and coaching to be delivered through multi-format programming that can support students who are learning in in-person, hybrid, or virtual academic contexts.
• Designs new modules based on the High Impact Team Theoretical Framework in partnership with the faculty advisor and ensures design is in alignment with theories of adult development and experiential learning.

Trains and provides guidance to graduate students, staff, executive coaches, and student interns who teach, advise, and coach students.

• Responsible for developing an executive coaching team based on the evidence-based framework, tools, and methods. This team is composed of coaches who are effective at working with students (embedded in academic teams) from different departments, a variety of backgrounds, as well as lived experiences, in support of academic learning as well as interdisciplinary collaborations on large-scale client projects on behalf of UC Berkeley. Examples include clean tech, social sector, and international development projects.
• Manages MBA/UGBA Student Coaching Program: Recruits, trains and delivers student coaches to support Undergraduate teams in UGBA150 and UGBA10x.
• Oversees a student worker who oversees basic administrative tasks and also serves as an ambassador for cultivating collaborative learning communities within the undergraduate business program.
• May provide guidance to Academic Student Advisers on pedagogic issues affecting students in their departments.
• Works closely with Academic Student Advisers when challenging team dynamics emerge to support student development and alignment with the program office's goals and policies.

May work with departments to develop study groups tied to specific department courses or series of courses.

• Works with program offices annually to advise on the creation of core academic teams based on key criteria that align with the missions of interdisciplinary learning in a global context.
• Works to develop digital strategies to create consistent approaches for team composition that meet the criteria for specific courses in our MBA/UGBA programs.

Provides training for pedagogical skills to faculty, and designs, develops, and implements curricula and training for professional courses.

• Responsible for providing training and consultation to faculty on supporting team development and navigating team conflict when it emerges in core UGBA/MBA courses.
• Provides training and consultation to faculty on team composition, team project design . click apply for full job details