The Director of the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence reports to the Associate Vice President for Institution Engagement and Education Justice of the Office for Equity and Diversity (OED) and works closely with the Office of Equity and Diversity Vice President. The Director oversees the development of strategic partnerships that support campus-wide support initiatives for multicultural students who hold intersectional identities along race, ability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic status. MCAE’s director leads the visioning, strategic planning, and programmatic agenda for the unit, and partners with institutional colleagues on enhancing multicultural student support initiatives.

Deadline to apply: December 1, 2024

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide vision, direction, and support for MCAE

• Establish short and long-term strategic plans for MCAE, in consultation with OED senior leaders, in the areas of campus representation, inclusion, and multicultural student academic success and advocacy.
• Develop a detailed budget to support MCAE strategic initiatives in consultation with finance and budget colleagues.
• Create, sustain, and continuously cultivate institutional, system, and community relationships and collaborations (i.e., with admissions, academic, counseling, and career services units) with the goal of enhancing multicultural student support initiatives.
• Develop and implement programs and initiatives that provide multicultural students with skills to navigate a Predominantly White Institution with the goals of increasing retention and graduation rates.
• Implement holistic support frameworks aimed to ensure multicultural students/learners achieve their intellectual and academic goals.
• Partner with OED and Foundation colleagues in the cultivation of philanthropic efforts to support MCAE.
• Prepare briefs, reports, talking points for senior leaders highlighting MCAE’s efforts in support of our multicultural students.
• Design and implement a robust evaluation and assessment plan for MCAE programming and initiatives.
• Lead the recruitment, hiring, onboarding of MCAE’s staff; provide supervision, mentoring, coaching, and evaluation of staff members; lead team-building efforts.
• Assist in the recruitment, hiring, and implementation of MCAE’s office interns and Living Learning Community peer mentors.
• Represent MCAE and serve as internal and external ambassador to multicultural students’ interests; attend events and programs on campus, particularly those being held by multicultural student organizations.
• Provide on-going support, feedback and direction for existing and developing programs in the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence.
• Establish and share best practices to support multicultural students in the classroom
• Develop and implement a strategic marketing and outreach plan focused on campus-wide marketing of MCAE services, mission, and resources.
• Serve on appropriate University committees and as a member of the Leadership Team in the Office for Equity and Diversity.
• Engage in work consistent with the mission of the Office for Equity and Diversity to create and sustain a campus environment that values and actively supports a pluralistic
  community.
• Serve as an effective spokesperson and ambassador for MCAE to multicultural external and internal constituents (i.e., student, staff, and faculty affinity groups/spaces)
• Coordinate the instruction of two sessions of LEAD 1691W Personal Leadership at the University in collaboration with the Leadership Minor.
• Maintain administrative systems such as databases and electronic and paper filing systems.
• Create procedures and infrastructure for general operations of the physical spaces.
• Manage the appropriate level of access to internal information for staff and Interns.
• Respond to incidents reported by staff and Interns, communicate with other unit staff as needed, and elevate to higher offices when necessary.
• Serve as the Department Facilities Representative, submitting Facilities Management requests, managing keys, creating and maintaining safety procedures, and communicating with other DFRs in Appleby Hall.

WORK MODE: Primarily on campus during the academic year

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and ten years of full-time experience working with underrepresented students in an educational setting or a Master’s degree with at least 8 years of experience working with students who come from marginalized communities, and/or who have had limited access to higher education
• Demonstrated understanding of multicultural students in a college or University setting (addressing academic, financial, personal, social, and cultural needs)
• Demonstrated experience developing initiatives aimed to support diverse students and groups, not limited to:
  • American Indians/Native Americans and Indigenous people; people of color, including underrepresented groups and new immigrant populations; people with both visible and invisible disabilities; people across faiths, religions, spiritualities, and those who are agnostic and atheists; women; people of various gender a sexual identities and expressions; first generation students and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds
• Experience supervising and mentoring staff
• Experience administering higher education programs and managing budgets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree in Higher Education or related field
• Five years of full-time experience working on a college or university academic setting
• Teaching at collegiate level+