Assistant Director Executive Education Proposal And Content
About NYU Abu Dhabi
NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity’s shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.
Position summary
Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates. In line with UAE regulations, Emirati candidates are encouraged to apply.
New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint an Assistant Director, Executive Education Proposals & Content reporting to the Vice Provost, Executive & Professional Education.
The Assistant Director, Executive Education Proposals & Content plays a critical institutional role in translating NYU Abu Dhabi’s academic mission, strategic priorities, and market-facing ambitions into high-impact, decision-ready proposal narratives that enable the Office of Executive and Professional Education (OEPE) to operate at scale with academic integrity and brand distinction.
Reporting to the Vice Provost of Executive and Professional Education, the role works with faculty, academic leadership, program design and marketing to ensure that proposals for OEPE executive education and new OEPE initiatives are consistently robust with curriculum documentation, governance-ready program materials, and client-responsive narratives. By establishing a unified narrative architecture across OEPE’s program verticals, the Assistant Director, Executive Education Proposals & Content strengthens institutional credibility, increases the percentage of executive custom program proposals and RFP responses converted into funded partnerships or contracts, accelerates program approvals, and enhances the university’s capacity to engage ministries, enterprises, families, and lifelong learners with confidence and consistency.
As an internal editor and strategic synthesizer, the Assistant Director, Executive Education Proposals & Content enables senior leadership to make informed decisions and faculty to deliver to a variety of audiences with clarity and purpose.
Key responsibilities
Program ideation, discovery & proposal development
Develop and refine client facing proposals and program narratives that articulate rationale, audience, learning outcomes, curriculum structure, delivery format, and value proposition across OEPE’s program verticals
Draft and edit required documentation for proposals, including program descriptions, concept notes, curriculum descriptions, course synopses, learning outcomes, competency frameworks, and assessment narratives
Collaborate with faculty and academic leadership to ensure clarity, coherence, and academic integrity in client facing proposals and all program materials
Support internal governance and approval workflows by incorporating feedback from academic committees, legal review, and senior leadership
Incorporate data to meet client and program proposal needs
Work collaboratively with clients, ministry staff, academic directors, and faculty during the ideation, discovery, and proposal development stages
Develop and write RFP response requirements, including capability priorities and formal proposal standards
Academic & program narrative development
Produce tailored written materials for executive custom programs, including proposals responding to RFPs and enterprise or ministry partners
Develop proposals across academic verticals that include documentation for programs, market rationale, curriculum progression, and employability outcomes
Support academic governance and approval workflows by preparing, revising, and quality-assuring proposal program documentation for committee review, legal and policy compliance, safeguarding standards when applicable, and senior leadership approval
Copy editing, editorial quality & brand consistency
Serve as OEPE’s lead copy editor and editorial authority
Edit all OEPE assets including websites, brochures, handbooks, correspondence and governance documents to ensure consistency, professionalism, and decision-readiness
Create and maintain standardized templates, terminology, and reusable language across OEPE program types
Manage and track version control and coordinate revisions across multiple stakeholders and timelines throughout the approval process
Qualifications
Required education
Master's degree in one of the following or a closely related field:
Higher education administration
Education policy
Instructional design / learning sciences
Communications or strategic communications
English, rhetoric, or writing
Required experience
7+ years of progressively responsible experience producing academic, programmatic, and/or professional education written materials (e.g., program proposals, curriculum documentation, course descriptions, learning outcomes, assessment narratives)
Demonstrated experience partnering with faculty and academic leadership to translate subject-matter expertise into clear, structured program documentation
Experience writing for multiple audiences
Track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects, tight deadlines, and concurrent deliverables
Produce polished, structured, evidence-based academic documents with strong narrative logic and precision
Articulate learning outcomes, competencies, assessment strategies, and curriculum progression in clear, defensible language
Write within institutional policy frameworks, incorporate committee feedback, and maintain documentation integrity and audit readiness
Reconcile inputs from faculty, instructional design, marketing, admissions, legal/risk, and leadership into a single coherent narrative
Interpret market inputs, client needs, and institutional strategy to shape program rationale, differentiation, and value proposition
Manage multiple drafts, approvals, and deadlines using disciplined version control and documentation workflows
Handle sensitive internal materials, draft decision memos, and support leadership-level initiatives with discretion
Preferred education
Doctoral degree
Certificate in instructional design or learning experience design
Certificate in writing or technical communication
Project management certificate
Preferred experience
Structure persuasive proposals for enterprise/ministry clients, including outcomes frameworks, impact measures, and implementation narratives
Write evaluation plans and success metrics (KPIs), including learner outcomes, organizational impact, and quality assurance indicators
Adapt program and proposal narratives into web-ready copy, collateral, pitch decks, FAQs, and email campaigns
Produce clear, inclusive, learner-centered writing and apply accessibility-aware content practices
Align program documentation with UAE and Abu Dhabi accreditation expectations as applicable
Tailor messaging for UAE and GCC stakeholders and diverse audiences
Other information about NYUAD
NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity.
This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.