Reports to: Vice President of Student Services

Position Type: Exempt

Opens:  January 8, 2012

Updated Closing Date:  February 3, 2012

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership

• Consult and partner with campus community in addressing issues of recruitment, enrollment, retention, and completion of underrepresented students.
• Facilitate and partner with students, staff, and faculty on activities, forums, programs, and dialogue on campus to promote and improve understanding of diversity throughout the college community.
• Act as liaison to the GRCC campus in terms of diversity program content, policies and procedures; responsible for the development and implementation of new procedures to maximize program effectiveness as well as exercise independent judgment in interpreting and applying rules and regulations.
• Serve as the co-lead for the President’s Commission on Diversity and advise the Multicultural and Equity Council (MEC) in developing and/or implementing campus-wide strategic diversity initiatives.
• Develop and foster relationships with staff and faculty to promote professional development opportunities and curriculum development in the areas of diversity.
• Provide leadership and guidance to advisors and student clubs; implement multicultural programs and activities in collaboration with Student Life, oversee the tracking of underrepresented student participation in selected activities and programs.
• Act as a resource for multicultural issues, e.g. participate in student leadership training, Center for Teaching and Learning workshops; manage and acquire resource materials for Diversity and Multicultural Services.
• Conduct program-based assessment of diversity initiatives. Using the State-wide Diversity Framework and campus-wide Monitoring Report data as tools, analyze the data to assess results, compile information to assess campus diversity efforts related to underrepresented student success and recommend and implement strategies for improvement.
• Work with institutional researcher to monitor and report the retention and graduation patterns of underrepresented students attending the college.
• Develop recommendations and implement strategies to improve retention, academic progress and successful completion of diverse student populations.
• Serve on appropriate committees internally and externally. May represent the college on statewide councils.

Coordination

• Attend Student Services and departmental meetings as appropriate to assist in the coordination of programmatic or other activities that may be inter-departmental in nature
• Attend and participate in meetings and trainings related to the College Success Foundation (CSF), the Passport to College Program, Campus Compact, and community support organizations.
• Foster positive and collaborative communication to provide services to College Bound Scholars (CBS); work closely with CBS feeder schools in order to recruit students to GRCC.
• Determine and evaluate student learning outcomes for CAP participants, including assessing the effectiveness of the CAP program, Passport to College program, Headwaters and other diversity initiatives. Assist with academic monitoring of underrepresented students and follow-up with students in academic difficulty.

Program

• Update supervisor via weekly staff meetings, emails, including other written documentation as appropriate; participate in campus meetings including but not limited to department meetings, Student Services Leadership, MEC or meetings as directed by supervisor in order to hear campus concerns and offer program services.
• Determine, coordinate, and track learning outcomes for the Commencement Achievement Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program and Passport to College program, and the Headwaters AmeriCorps Retention Project. Effectively establish and oversee a comprehensive reporting system to monitor, analyze, and benchmark progress in diversity.
• Maintain accurate records of office operations and budget expenses to satisfy various reporting and auditing requirements and funding proposals.
• Administer continual program improvement efforts; including evaluative program assessment and revision.
• Seek additional funding opportunities through grant writing and active participation in campus grant initiatives targeting diverse student populations.
• The director will collaborate with internal and external partners to coordinate special programs to engage experts in diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency fields.
• Compiles, reviews, and organizes data to inform and support the goals for diversity for outreach, enrollment, retention, and successful program completion.
• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree required in student development, sociology, cultural studies, social work, cultural diversity, multicultural education, or related field.
• Demonstrated successful experience working with diverse populations including race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, etc.
• Demonstrated cultural competence, sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff.
• Knowledge of student development theory.
• Experienced and competent with the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Outlook.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations verbally and in writing.

• Proven ability to work independently and/or collaboratively and manage projects from start to a successful finish.

The successful candidate will be also willing to work in and out of the office environment and be flexible in terms of time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS