Assistant Director, Humphrey Program (Hybrid)

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program (HHH) brings mid-career professionals from over 120 countries to the United States for a full year of non-degree graduate-level study, leadership development, and professional collaboration with U.S. counterparts and English language training if needed. Additionally, the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program (DHFP) brings three cohorts of senior level professionals to the US for 2-3 weeks of intense professional and leadership development in certain critical fields. The Assistant Director(AD) for HHH is a manager level position, supervising three FTE. This position directly supports the HHH Director, serves in the Director’s stead when required, and is responsible for the administration of the DHFPs. The AD is an important client-facing role, supporting project management efforts to ensure that contractual deliverables are met. This position regularly communicates with external program partners (U.S. universities, co-sponsors, U.S. Embassies and Fulbright commissions and other stakeholders) and works closely with their counterpart at the ECA, the Grants Officer Representative (GOR) on a daily basis. The AD develops and maintains direct working relationships with senior university officials, alumni and continually connects them to the client and client events. For the sponsor, the AD authors, develops, and analyzes data for a variety of reports, programs in the higher education, development, and capacity building context. The AD works with the Humphrey advisers, as well as other team members, to produce innovative outputs, such as developing diverse public private partnerships; engagement opportunities for Fellows; and diverse higher education institution collaborations.

The Institute of International Education (“IIE”) has a hybrid work environment that allows team members a combination of in-office work and telework at any of the locations listed above.

Essential Functions:

• Supports day-to-day contact with program senior level contacts at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Represents IIE’s HHH Team to ECA senior contacts when IIE Humphrey Director is unavailable. Manages the GOR client experience, consistent with established protocols. Manages all daily taskers and reporting in coordination with the team lead, internal teams (IIE’s Program Delivery Group) and external partners. Coordinates communication with client counterparts for assigned programmatic portfolio and responds to general and specific questions, inquiries, and correspondence to ensure programs deliverables are met. Troubleshoots participant and partner issues.
• Manages the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program (DHFP), a specialized, intensive sub-suite of HHH programming. Responsible for all program management, communication with the sponsor, Dept. of State, participating Posts, and DHFP participants. Leads recruitment for suitable HEI respondents to DHFP requests for proposals, and serves as primary Humphrey contact for selected host institutions. Works in close consultation with the HHH Director on program content development, as well as budget management and contract review and oversight.

• Leads team in annual proposal renewal. Assists Reporting lead in collection and compilation of quarterly reports for ECA as well as the annual congressional report. Coordinates critical communications with partners.
• Works with team leads, director and with program finance administrator to monitor budget, cost-share budgets/back-up and partner contribution budget and supporting financial documentation. Creates cost-share report for each quarter and final submission to ECA, working with other IIE units as needed.

Salary Range:$78,534 - $94,947 A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, internal organizational equity, and geographic region.

IIE offers a robust suite of benefits to team members including medical, dental, and vision plans, paid time off and holidays, student loan and tuition reimbursement programs, professional development reimbursement program, retirement plans and a family medical leave benefits. Please visit our careers page for further details.