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Center for Student Involvement
Time Type:
Full time
Hybrid 01 (On Campus 3-4 Days/Week)
Summary:
Reporting to the Director, Center for Student Involvement (CSI), the Senior Associate Director for Training and Development is responsible for directing the overall strategy and approach for CSI’s 200+ recognized student organizations. The Senior Associate Director for Training and Development will oversee all aspects of the annual RSO re-registration process and required training curriculum for student organization leadership, including policy development, revision of the RSO handbook, and compliance with University guidelines. The Senior Associate Director supervises full-time professional staff members and manages a range of programs and events. This position will serve on university-wide committees and work collaboratively with campus partners to support CSI initiatives at the direction of the Director, Center for Student Involvement. The Senior Associate Director for Training and Development supports the Center for Student Involvement in the absence of the Director.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Supervision and Program Support: Directs the recruitment, selection, hiring, training, professional development, and evaluation of professional and student staff. Develops performance standards, reviews, and makes performance evaluations, provides guidance to staff, and approves personnel actions in accordance with university policies. Directly supervises full-time professional staff members and indirectly supervises the graduate students. This position also supports CSI programs and events as needed, including the Fall and Spring Involvement Fair and Annual Student Organization Summit.
Student Advising: Advises and supports a diverse portfolio of recognized student organizations. This includes, but is not limited to, mentoring organizational leadership, attending organizational meetings as needed, supporting complex events, facilitating dialogue between student organizations that fosters inclusion and sense of belonging, and collaborating with campus partners to support development needs for recognized student organizations.
Training and Development: Plan and coordinate comprehensive training and development modules for student organization leaders, and advisors to student organizations. Work collaboratively with the Assistant Director, Student Involvement on student organization leadership trainings covering university policies, risk and organization management, and member development. Support and create training for student organization advisors. Utilize Engage to support student organization development and support, develop and launch the AU co-curricular Transcript.
Administration & Budget Management: Manage budget and oversee funding process for student cohort services and programming within functional area. Ensure fiscal responsibility, effective planning, effective use of resources, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and University policies and procedures. Review and update polices and procedures in the RSO handbook and publish updates yearly. Develop learning outcomes and assessment for Student Organizations. Create end-of-year reports for assigned functional area. Represent department on content specific division-wide committees, and manage and adjudicate minor student organization violations in conjunction with Student Accountability and Restorative Practices.
Partnerships and Collaboration: Coordinate with other Student Affairs and University departments, and external organizations including Hillel, Chabad, AU Anti-Racist Center, Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, etc. to conceive, develop, and execute initiatives, programs for students organizations. Work collaboratively with Dean of Students and Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution Services to support enforcement of university polices with student organizations. Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with offices on campus to promote student engagement, success, and retention. This position serves a key partner on the Student Activism Response Team, and may serve on selected Student Affairs and university-wide committees and workgroups at the direction of the Director, Center for Student Involvement.
Competencies:
Evaluating and Implementing Ideas.
Developing Plans.
Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions.
Building and Supporting Teams.
Managing Talent.
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Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An ability to welcome, value, and affirm individuals of all identities and experiences, and a commitment to ensure they are understood, appreciated, and fully included in the university community.
Discretion, Tact and Diplomacy: Ability to exercise discretion, tact and diplomacy while interacting with students, faculty, university staff, management, internship employers and other stakeholders on confidential and/or sensitive matters.
Advanced Communication: Ability to express oneself clearly and concisely, using language with precision; constructing logical arguments; accurate note taking, editing and summarizing; and writing reports or correspondence free of spelling and grammatical errors. Ability to engage in active and empathetic listening and communicate with a service minded orientation.
Thoroughness in Reviewing Work: Ability to review one’s own and others work and information to ensure completeness and accuracy; carefully prepare for meetings and presentations; organize information or materials for others; follow up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled; and set up procedures to ensure high quality of work.
Student Services Skills: Ability to serve as bridge to services, intervene and/or advocate on students’ behalf with offices across campus to support needs, drive engagement and empower students to achieve their goals.
Diagnostic Information Gathering: Ability to seek out relevant people to obtain information; probe skillfully to get at the facts when others are reluctant to disclose the full details; ask clarifying questions; and gain a complete and accurate picture by checking multiple sources.
Standard Office Software: Skill using email, word processing, spreadsheet/ data analysis and presentation development software applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint while preparing briefings, reports, and presentations.
Benefits
AU offers a competitive benefits package including a 200% matching retirement plan, tuition benefits for full-time staff and their families, several leadership development certificates, and has been recognized by the American Heart Association as a fit-friendly worksite.
Other Details
Hiring offers for this position are contingent on successful completion of a background check.
Employees in staff positions at American University must deliver their services to the university from either the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, or perform work on-site at the university.
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