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The Office of First Year and Family Experience Programs (FYFEP) influences and supports first year student success through the collaborative coordination and delivery of programs, resources, and services designed to guide and enhance student engagement.

Job Summary

Department Specific Responsibilities

Engages families via newsletter content, Fall and Spring Family Weekends, and the Parent Advisory Board.
Contributes to the development and implementation of programs and initiatives offered through the Office of First Year Experience Programs (FYE).
Develops, implements and evaluates first year programs for the Bloomington campus for freshmen, transfer students and their families.
Facilitates the tracking of student participation by engaging with the campus platforms available.
Coordinates outreach to new students.
Provides supervision and professional development to student employees as designated.
Develops and implements select experiential programs in collaboration with academic departments and community-based organizations and agencies.
Collaborates with campus partners including academic departments, student services, and support areas.
Selects, trains and supervises a team of students to conduct and support programming throughout the academic year.
Recruits and orients staff and faculty volunteers.
Creates program goals, presentations, supporting materials.
Makes presentations on behalf of the university.
Evaluates programs and benchmarks experiences with comparable universities.

General Responsibilities

Develops and implements programs and initiatives geared at enhancing and reinforcing the academic engagement and experiential learning capacity of the student experience. Projects programming outcomes at the program, department/division, or campus level.
Interfaces directly with students, attending student programming events and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student programming initiatives and objectives.
Collaborates with staff in own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student programming goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs.
Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student programs against projected outcomes; regularly prepares reports on impact to students and budget and may present to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
Serves on committees and performs student programming research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
Plans and coordinates communications for student programming initiatives to ensure student participation and inclusion.
May provide guidance to other Student Programming Specialists; makes process recommendations to manager for improved delivery of service.

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Assistant Director for First Year and Family Experience (Student Programming Specialist), First Year and Family Experience

Indiana University Bloomington

107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

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