Associate Director, Center for Women - Campus Life

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Description:
Reporting directly to the Director of the Center for Women, the Associate Director will serve as a key member of the Center for Women within the broader context of the Belonging and Community Justice (BCJ) area.

Belonging and Community Justice is comprised of six identity spaces at Emory that serve as a hub of support for students to matriculate to and through the university and includes the Asian Student Center (ASC); Centro Latinx; the Emory Black Student Union (EBSU); Emory First; the Center for Women at Emory (CWE); and LGBT Life. BCJ promotes dynamic and cohesive learning by creating space for individual, cultural, and communal development. BCJ's value of ensuring that every student belongs and graduates is central to all programming, events, and initiatives within and across the respective identity spaces.

Center for Women at Emory University is an identity space focused on supporting all Emory undergraduate, graduate and professional students including women and gender diverse students. The Center for Women is led by a director and supported by the associate director and assistant directors. The Center for Women also employees several undergraduate and graduate student staff supervised by the associate and assistant directors.

This position is student-centered and responsible for supporting the Director's strategic vision and alignment of Emory resources to coordinate and assess community relevant programs and services to support access, academic progress, sense of belonging, persistence, and retention of students who find their place in the Center for Women. Supports collaboration amongst other identity spaces within BCJ (Asian Student Center; Centro Latinx; Center for Women at Emory, Emory First; and Emory Black Student Union) as well as colleagues across Emory Campus Life, Provost areas, and the university as a whole to develop intentional planning and implementation of programs and resources focused on students' salient and non-salient identities and intersectionality while also promoting a university culture of inclusion where students from all identities can thrive.

Responsible for program development and implementation, student development, and collaboration with students. Focuses on supporting students and their personal and professional development. Actively engages in student advising and forges strong partnerships across campus to enhance the services available to women and gender diverse students and the broader student body.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Student Support & Supervision

Provides and develops resources to all women and gender diverse undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

Serves as an advisor for student organizations supporting women and gender diverse students.

Collaborates with student organizations and campus partners leading high impact practices for women and gender diverse students.

Refers women and gender diverse students to appropriate campus resources for support, as needed (i.e. Student Involvement, Leadership, and Transitions, Student Case Management and Intervention Services, Counseling and Psychological Services, etc).

Meets one-on-one with all students who request assistance in collaboration with the Center for Women Team.

Creates reflective spaces for women and gender diverse students to celebrate their gender identities.

Supervises, leads, mentors, and designs professional development opportunities for Center for Women professional and student staff. Supervision of staff may include the following groups: undergraduate student staff, graduate student staff, and/or assistant director(s).

Responds and supports leadership in crisis situations in accordance with university policies and protocols.

Emory and Campus Life Program Development

Develops, coordinates, and executes comprehensive and consistent Center for Women programs and services designed to support Emory's Student Flourishing Initiative with an additional focus on programs and services related to graduate students.

Creates and implements outcome-based, innovative, and transformative programs that invite all students to communicate across social identities.

Coordinates efforts to welcome women and gender diverse students to Emory, including those transitioning from the Oxford Campus.

Leads the planning and implementation efforts to celebrate all women and gender diverse students throughout National Women's History Month.

Designs assessment tools to gather quantitative and qualitative program data and trends.

Supports the BCJ areas and initiatives as well as other units within Campus Life.

Creates and presents educational engagement opportunities for students in collaboration with the Director.

Develops and collaborates with the Director on women and gender diverse focused presentations, conferences, retreats, and workshops.

Cultivates and strengthens relationships with colleagues across the university including alumni.

Manages Emory lactation room policy and support for room managers including annual space audits to make sure University rooms meet national and university guidelines.

Liaises with the Work Life Resource Center to address lactation support compliance related issues.

Supports Emory, Campus Life, and the other BCJ areas via committee work, projects, and initiatives that serve the campus broadly, such as:Dean of Students portfolio retreats

Strategic planning committees

Assessment committees

Pre-orientation and orientation planning meetings

Large-scale community and university-wide programs.

Other duties as assigned by supervisor or their delegate

Communication & Marketing

Leads office newsletters content creation and implementation that is in alignment with the Center for Women, BCJ, Campus Life, and Emory University guidelines.

Maintains accuracy and effectiveness of the Center for Women website.

Manages Center for Women listserv and ensure timely and appropriate responses to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

Markets and promotes the Center for Women, Belonging & Community Justice, and their programming to all students to increase participation.

Fiscal and Center Operations

Provides timely/pertinent budgetary information to supervisor as necessary throughout the year.

Processes university fiscal paperwork promptly and accurately.

Routinely assesses the necessity of various expenditures, including but not limited to programming activities, student recognition, and professional development/training.

Meets deadlines for all requests for reports, data, publications, and budgets.

Ensures the responsible planning and expenditure of fiscal resources in a manner consistent with good fiduciary responsibility.

Oversees the cleanliness and organization of the Center & BCJ as a whole, ensuring that all areas are tidy, well-maintained, and adhere to health and safety standards.

Oversees the management of the Center for Women space and space reservations.

Regularly inspects the facilities to identify any maintenance, safety, or operational issues, ensuring that the environment is safe and functional.

Supports the Director with fundraising efforts in the Center for Women.

Performs other related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A master's degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, or a related field and at least three years of experience with campus-wide programming, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Demonstrated experience in supervising and developing student staff including graduate assistants.

Demonstrated experience in event management and/or student-centered programming with an emphasis on assessment of programmatic outcomes. Experience advising student organizations.

Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment.

Demonstrated understanding and experience with complex issues around identity and equity; intercultural communication and competence; and cultural humility.

Experience educating and training students on topics of diversity, inclusion, and difference.

Knowledge of student development theory and understanding current issues, best practices, and higher education trends related the challenges facing students and staff from historically underrepresented communities such as people with disabilities, people of color, queer, transgender, gender diverse, first-generation, low-income, international, immigrant, undocumented, tribal, and indigenous communities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Four years of experience with campus-wide programming and supporting diverse students

Leadership experience in program development, diversity programming/education

Demonstrated experience with providing high-impact and culturally engaging educational programs

Desire to participate in alumni engagement, fundraising and/or donor relations

Experience designing learning outcomes and assessment metrics to support programmatic endeavors

Understanding of the legal aspects of higher education

Connected, engaged, and contributor to student affairs professional associations and the field
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