Program Director – Executive Master in Sustainable Leadership – DTU Learn for Life

We are looking for an experienced Program Director for our executive level Master in Sustainable Leadership program. You will be responsible for the planning, delivery, and overall success of the program. You will be part of a high-performing team and our shared goal is to ensure that every cohort is delivered successfully and adds the highest possible value to the participants, sponsor companies, and the organization.

About our Master in Sustainable Leadership programs

Our Master in Sustainable Leadership (MSL) program is an innovative, accredited programme that enables Executives to drive the sustainability agenda in their organizations, through equipping them with the skills to navigate the complexities around sustainability, as well as the tools to design, execute, and lead others in implementing sustainability solutions. The MSL program brings academic content out of the classroom by integrating learning into real-world cases and projects. Participants will practice everything they learn in a real-life context and a key feature is the immersive learning project, spanning the 2-year programme. The MSL program is a journey of personal and professional transformation where participants invest in both personal and the sponsoring company’s ability to drive sustainability solutions, as well as one’s own inner development skills to leverage this knowledge, lead others, and bring about positive change. We are launching the third cohort in August.

Responsibilities

The Program Director is responsible for planning and execution, recruitment and admissions, development and implementation, participant experience and faculty relations as well as the overall successful delivery of the Executive MSL Program. Responsibilities include planning and running international study trips (e.g. Iceland or India) as well as various events and graduation. Executive MSL classes take place in teaching blocks of 4 days, roughly once per month, often including Saturdays.

Essential functions

• Pursuing the goals of the Executive MSL program according to the strategic objectives 
• Collaborating with marketing team to brand and market the DTU Executive MSL program online and offline, amongst corporations, DTU alumni and professional networks
• Recruiting high calibre student cohorts each year
• Overseeing and enhancing the overall participant experience - in line with participant expectations and university policy
• With Head of Studies and faculty develop and maintain top notch academic content
• Initiating collaborative dialogues with the participants’ companies and the sponsors within those companies
• Maintaining a close collaboration with the alumni organization and industry board 
• With Head of Studies making sure the program follows internal and external quality and accreditation standards
• Ensuring smooth day-to-day operations together with Program Managers, Coordinators and Heads of Studies
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure professional operations that complies with internal processes. 

With direct reference to the Head of Executive Education, you will work closely together as well as with colleagues within the Executive MSL program team.

An experienced leader with sustainability and educational background 

We may be asking a lot, but we need a person who ideally combines four key skills: knowledge about sustainability, experience with academic/executive level educations, a commercial mindset and skills, and a leadership profile including feeling at home in front of a class of executive students or company leaders. Experience with education includes design/redesign of educational programs. You will not formally have direct reports, but the role requires a leadership capacity in managing the program team as having the senior role with the overall responsibility, as well as managing faculty and leading the participants in class. You ideally have an educational background with a master’s degree relating to the above fields of expertise or a similarly strong foundation as a practitioner.

Professional qualifications

• Excel at supervising programs, both operations, design, and development - working with participants and faculty while also considering a market fit. Ideally, you possess some skills in educational design, didactics, and quality management.
• Possess a business development approach, commercial acumen, and outstanding recruitment skills.
• Continue to monitor performance and prioritize the needs for improvements.
• Continue to improve efficiency and develop productivity of program procedures in a way that also builds the program team. 
• Management skills, i.e. planning, budgeting, delegation, and follow-up etc

Personal Competencies

• Demonstrate a development mindset and embrace knowledge-sharing as an authentic and structured team-player.
• Innovative thinking, especially around new ways of learning, leveraging technology and commercially. You don’t mind challenging the status quo while having a collaborative mindset about it.
• Value ethical leadership principles, innovation, and sustainability as core elements of a future-proof program.
• Self-starter and taking ownership of issues within your mandate including problem solving, decision making and managing the program in the widest sense.
• Great communication skills with a strong personal presence and leadership profile
• Positive, collaborative, and good at forming relationships.

Salary and terms of employment

Terms of appointment and payment according to the Agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Federation of Professional Associations (AC) or any other relevant agreement.

Application and contact

We are screening applications on a rolling basis - and final deadline to submit your online application is 1 May 2024

. Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form, attach your CV and motivated application in English or in Danish as well as your exam certificates.

If you would like to have additional information about the position, you are welcome to contact Head of Executive Education, Michael Frederik Ellekjær, on mail mfreldtu.dk

 or phone 5140 8231.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion, or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

DTU Learn for Life

DTU Learn for Life is the cross-university centre developing and coordinating executive and continuing education programmes at DTU - Technical University of Denmark at the Lyngby Campus.

We are a centre for a new strategic investment at DTU in relation to continuing and executive education in a unique, dynamic university environment. DTU Learn for Life is DTU's platform for all forms of future management education and specialized continuing education based on technology, sustainability, and innovation. A showcase for DTU's teaching and research, which reaches out widely to businesses, authorities, and organisations both in Denmark and in the world.

At DTU Learn for Life, we promote and run programmes for specialists, managers, leaders, and C-levels to drive change in their companies and organisations as well as in society as a whole. We have our offices in a well-equipped centre on campus with an executive auditorium, break-out meeting rooms, and a lounge - where we run classes, workshops, masterclasses, lectures, and events. 

We want to deliver world class continuing and executive education to the business world as well as to private and public organisations and have just launched a new and ambitious strategy for Lifelong Learning at DTU.

Technology for people

DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.