Career Pathways for Administrators

Navigating Your Career at NYU

Career pathways provide tools and resources to design your individual career steps at NYU

Grow, learn, and excel in your role with NYU's career pathways, the roadmap to your professional aspirations. Use this guide as your compass, self-navigating through the vast possibilities toward a future that is uniquely yours. Through strategic, thoughtful, and comprehensive career pathing based on defined core competencies, administrators initiate your own career progression, job family opportunities, and job satisfaction at NYU. While you may partner with a supervisor to accomplish more and flourish together, abundant opportunities for independent formal and informal learning exist for all administrators across NYU.

Get Started with Three Steps

1. Take Time to Self-Reflect

Start by reflecting on where you are now with your current skill level in each of NYU's eight core competencies. Self-reflection will help you assess and design your roadmap for growth and development.

2. Review Your Current Role

Be familiar with your current job description and job band. Access via NYU Home (JDXpert) and select View My Job Description to understand your role and band. This insight will guide you in plotting your path towards your future goals.

3. Develop and Implement a Path

Design your career development plan. Complete NYU's career development plan template (login to NYU Home required) with the following information:

a. Define your career vision and opportunity. Describe your career aspirations, considering both short- and long-term goals. Consider listing out potential roles at NYU that will help you reach your long-term goal.

b. Identify development areas. Identify a competency or skill area to focus on to support success in your current role and prepare for future roles.

c. Identify development actions to develop this competency or skill. Be sure to include on-the-job experiences, support from others, and training or required education by your band and competency.

Once you have established your path, explore careers at NYU in your current area or across schools and units.

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What are Key Components of Professional Growth at NYU?

Definitions

Competencies: Specific and measurable skills, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors

Specific, measurable skills, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors for effective performance.
Defines and assesess capabilities for job success.
Core competencies: Fundamental skills essential across roles and industries. View NYU's eight core competencies for administrators.
Technical competencies: Specific skills, knowledge, and expertise necessary for tasks or duties in a particular field, profession, or role. Technical competenices by job profile will be detailed further in the coming months.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities for your specific job are available in your job description. Access via NYU Home (JDXpert) and select View My Job Description.

Career Path: An outline of progression and choices in various occupations

Routes that individuals follow as they progress in their careers.
Sequence of job roles, experiences, and advancements in a field or industry.
Vary based on goals, skills, interests, and opportunities.

Career Lattice: The difference between lateral and linear career growth

Represents a flexible approach to career development.
Emphasizes diverse career paths, lateral moves, and skill development.
Encourages exploration of various opportunities within the organization.
Recognizes multiple ways to advance or grow in a career.
Promotes lateral moves for gaining diverse experiences and skills.

Job Bands: Levels based on responsibilities and skills

Categorizes job roles based on skills, responsibilities, and accountability.
Offers a structured framework for career progression and workforce management.

NYU's job bands consist of several levels, each representing a distinct stage in an individual's career at NYU. To confirm your job band level on your job description, access via NYU Home (JDXpert) and select View My Job Description or, for questions, contact your school or unit's HR Officer or Business Partner.

Job Families: Roles with similar functions or skill sets within the organization

Organizes job roles based on common functions, skills, and responsibilities.
Groups similar jobs for easier management, evaluation, and structuring of workforce partnerships.
View NYU's job families, job sub-families, and job family opportunities.

Why are Career Pathways Important?

Career pathways are important to you and your career, to you and your supervisor, and to fulfilling the mission of NYU. Career pathways provide a common language for talking about jobs across the entire University and a line of sight to opportunities and resources to explore career paths.

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For administrators, career pathways are key to your growth

Regardless of your role or current level within your role you're someone who ultimately supports NYU's mission of teaching, learning, and research. You'll perform your job – and cultivate your path professionally – using specific core competencies.

Additional career pathway benefits for administrators

Administrators can develop new skills and competencies at your own pace and in your current role, potentially advancing to a higher level of responsibility with neither competition nor moving to a different work area. You continue to demonstrate initiative and readiness to work to further school, unit, and University goals.

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For supervisors, career pathways are crucial too

Whether you supervise a team of one or 20, you're someone who employees rely on to not only partner with on projects and goals, but on career interests, training opportunities, and job advancement. You'll own your growth – and help others realize their professional potential too – through job family opportunities.

Additional career pathway benefits for supervisors

Supervisors in schools and units may retain valued employees who are motivated to advance careers. Areas can attract high quality administrators with the opportunity to advance, as supervisors develop well-trained talent with high morale.

NYU's career pathways support and align with how we flourish, a critical Presidential Strategic Pathway.

Learn more about flourishing at NYU

Flourishing: Build and sustain a welcoming and supportive community in which students, faculty, and staff can flourish and timely graduation is a top priority.

NYU will be a vibrant and diverse, welcoming and accessible global community in which students, faculty, and staff feel supported, connected, and inspired to do their best work. We will be diligent and persistent in reducing and eliminating barriers to success, whether measured in terms of timely progress to graduation for students, efficient and effective provision of research and teaching support for faculty, or robust opportunities for professional development and growth for staff.

View all Presidential Strategic Pathways.

Career pathways questions? Review frequently asked questions or submit an inquiry to PeopleLink (NYU Home login required), or call PeopleLink at 212-992-LINK (5465).