Apple University Partner - Senior Leader Programs

Apple University Partners are Apple University’s primary liaisons with a global community that includes senior leaders, strategic partners, pan-Apple learning leaders and teams, and People Team functional leaders. Partners amplify AU’s reach, impact and relevance by deeply understanding needs and translating them into existing or new offerings at Apple University.

Apple University Partners in the Strategic Partnerships and Planning team each own a specific area of focus for Apple University, leading an audience category, curriculum area, or discipline. In their focus area, they drive a portfolio of efforts in line with AU’s overall priorities. Relationships they build foster insight about what Apple’s leaders and teams need.

The reciprocity they build with global communities gives AU a platform for driving alignment in the learning landscape, building programming integrated with business imperatives, and amplifying awareness of AU’s current and emerging efforts.

Internally, they work collaboratively with Product and Platform teams to anticipate trends and position AU to be nimble and opportunistic — delivering precisely what Apple needs at precisely the right time.

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Partner will be our Senior Leader Program Coordinator. This role owns and drives program coordination of the Apple Leadership Development Program (ALDP) as well as AU’s overall senior leader curriculum as part of the Leaders and Organization area of focus.

Program coordination includes

Audience planning in partnership with the program leads; participant management; operational and event support; faculty liaising; production liaising; administrative support for the leads; managing a master calendar of program milestones and deliverables; and support for measurement and analysis. The role also provides coordination for team scheduling and support for other needs of the Strategic Partnerships and Planning team.

3-5 years experience managing a global, high-touch educational program for senior leaders. Demonstrated effectiveness working across many education-related functions, including teaching, curriculum development, planning and event management. Possesses excellent organizational skills and is skilled at creating alignment around team process.

Comfort liaising and organizing the efforts of a diverse set of audiences, including faculty and senior leaders. Pristine written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work with high-level vs granular direction and exercise good judgment to fill in the blanks.

Experience shepherding a number of different high-stakes initiatives with an ability to reprioritize work seamlessly when priorities change.

An orientation towards delivering “surprise and delight” in AU’s participant experience. Discretion and savvy in communicating and interacting with senior leaders. Initiative to prototype new solutions for enhancing the program execution, including but not limited to the participant experience, the internal coordination across faculty liaisons, and program materials development.

Attention to detail that ensures the highest standard of operational excellence, particularly in all dimensions shaping the participation experience, including but not limited to the communication, classroom materials, and event execution. An ability to navigate both “consistency and customization” when it comes to program execution, i. e.

, ensuring certain standards are executed across across the program but also knowing when an exception needs to be made to deliver for a specific audience or need. Capacity to connect across the ALDP team — identify and ensure opportunities for the group to convene, identify moments to assemble other team members for informing, and offer continual suggestions for improvement with the partnering and curriculum/experience leads.

Being relentlessly proactive, seeing around corners to anticipate potential conflicts or pitfalls, raising issues preventatively and providing alternatives to the leads, cueing up important decisions to keep program deliverables on time.