Assistant Director

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Job Requisition: JR102037 Assistant Director (Open) Job Posting Title: Assistant Director Department: CC00025 WM001 | SVSA | Civic & Community Engagement Job Family: Staff - Student Engagement Worker Sub-Type: Regular (benefited) Job Requisition Primary Location: Sadler Center Rm 290 Primary Job Posting Location: Posting Location - William & Mary Job Description Summary: Together with members of William & Mary and our broader communities, we cultivate equitable and transformational relationships and provide programming and resources for students to become lifelong community-centered leaders.

Reporting to the Director of Civic & Community Engagement, the Assistant Director advances Civic & Community Engagement efforts by managing civic engagement initiatives including the Civic Action Scorecard and voter engagement, executing signature campus-community events, and promoting active citizenship across campus. The Assistant Director oversees the GivePulse platform, leveraging data to guide decision-making and improve campus–community collaboration as well as communication efforts to better engage stakeholders and share the impact of our work. Job Description: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.

• Strong event coordination and/or project management skills.

• Experience advising, training, or leading students or volunteers.

• Ability to manage and effectively communicate data.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to build effective collaborative partnerships.

• Commitment to civic learning, democratic engagement, and ethical community partnerships.

Preferred Qualifications: • Master’s degree in a field related to student development.

• Experience designing and implementing community engagement, service-learning, or civic leadership programming.

• Experience with GivePulse or similar engagement tracking platforms.

• Experience managing large-scale events, conferences, or workshops.

• Experience with assessment of student learning and/or community impact.

• Ability to facilitate groups toward shared goals.

Conditions of Employment:   This position may require additional hours beyond the typical work week, to include occasional overnight and weekend work as needed to meet the business needs of the operation.

Duties:   30%- Campus & Community Initiatives: • Execute major community partnership programming including bi-annual service carnival and partnership forum and annual workshop to showcase opportunities and strengthen the connections between community partners and campus stakeholders and resources

• Produce issue education events which highlight community partners and opportunities to engage, such as a quarterly community speaker series

• Participate in community events as representative of Civic & Community Engagement and William & Mary as appropriate, sharing opportunities to engage and learning about community needs

• Execute annual Active Citizens Conference to engage students from W&M and the region in practices, strategies, and reflections on social change and civic leadership

• Manage award and recognition processes which highlight student, staff, and partner exemplars, including James Monroe Prize, President’s Award for Service, John Lewis Award, and Active Citizenship Awards

• Administer the community internships program including processes for selecting placements and interns, funding distribution, and tracking student and community outcomes

  30%- Civic Engagement: • Advance and maintain the Civic Action Scorecard, including promoting the resource, managing data, and elevating the outcomes

• Design and implement campus-wide civic engagement opportunities which align with the Civic Action Scorecard (e.g.  Constitution Day, a facilitated dialogue, service days, or pluralism workshop)

• Convene voter engagement committee and coordinate voter engagement partnerships and programming, including voter registration efforts and participation in national voter engagement efforts

• Advise and supervise civic engagement student leaders, including Voter Engagement committee

  20%- GivePulse: • Serve as primary administrator and point of contact for GivePulse, campus-wide community engagement technology platform, including with W&M IT and Procurement

• Enhance GivePulse outreach and resources to increase campus-community engagement and optimize usage

• Utilize the data collected in W&M GivePulse to better inform decisions and reporting on W&M community engagement from the individual to institutional level

  10%- Communications & Marketing: • Produce high-quality communications and marketing material that tell the story of Civic & Community Engagement, engage stakeholders, and share opportunities to participate

• Develop and implement department communication plan and contribute to division and institutional communication and marketing efforts

  10%- Departmental, Division, and Institutional Citizenship: • Contribute to other priorities and initiatives of the department such as integration of civic learning and action goals, assessment, partnership development, student advising, and strategic planning

• Engage in professional development and learn about trends, strategies, and best practices in the field

• Other duties as assigned

  Hiring Range: U p to $58,000 commensurate with experience.

Additional Job Description: For full consideration, please upload a Resume, Cover Letter, and an additional document answering the following question:

Draft a 3-5 sentence description for a workshop you would want to offer during our student-focused Active Citizen Conference. Also briefly share why you chose that topic.

Please note: No more than 5 individual documents may be uploaded into the upload field provided. Each individual file must not exceed a size limit of 5MB. If necessary, candidates may compress multiple files into a single zip file for upload.

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