"Coordinator for Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Students"

The Center for Cultural Connections and Community (The Center) welcomes applications for the Coordinator for Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Students! This role is responsible for providing support, resources, programs, and events to AAPI students at CU Boulder. This position will work with and advocate for AAPI students and communities on campus in order to create a more welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment for students to thrive. Additionally, this position will assist with and collaborate on campus-wide diversity initiatives to create a more welcoming environment for all students. This position reports to the Assistant Director for Intercultural Engagement.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

The vision of the center is to provide high-impact, transformational community-building and educational programs to the CU Boulder community, and to nurture leaders grounded in the core concepts of intersectional identity development, diversity, equity, and social justice. Our values include:

• Transformative Educational Opportunities: Provide interactive intercultural and social justice educational workshops to promote students’ growth and development, to broaden their worldview, and to transform their perception of self through purposeful and meaningful interactions with others and thoughtful reflection.
• Intersectional Identity, Personal and Intercultural Development: Provide ongoing support via identity affirmation activities, which are fundamental to students’ psychological well-being, sense of validation, intercultural competence, and ability to reach their full potential.
• Service: Provide experiential learning opportunities to build a community of scholars committed to service, and to promote transformational growth and social justice in action.
• Cross-Cultural Engagement: Provide cultural programming to educate, engage, and provide/build community for and between students on campus.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Programming, Development, and Scholarship Coordination: Plan and implement high-impact programming that serves to enhance the academic and social success of AAPI students, including visibility campaigns and heritage celebrations. Implement AAPI programming in response to national/local incidents. Provide important connections for AAPI students to student organizations, identity centers, other programs, and services to holistically support their development and belonging. Create and maintain supportive, welcoming, and inclusive center spaces, and implement outcome-based, innovative transformative programs that invite all students to communicate across lines of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other social identities. Cultivate ongoing relationships with AAPI student organization leaders to provide opportunities for leadership development and community building, including but not limited to AAPI clubs and organizations. Collaborate with other IE colleagues to develop, coordinate, and conduct UndocuAlly training sessions offered to groups of faculty, staff, administrators, and students to increase the understanding of the needs of Undocumented students, particularly within the AAPI community. Support coordination efforts for orientations and workshops for current and prospective CU students and their families who identify as DACA, ASSET, children of immigrants, or otherwise Undocumented. Support CU Boulder’s Undocumented Student Services program at campus, community, and off-campus events. Collaborate with teams in the Center on programming and projects when and where appropriate for greater outreach. Align programmatic learning outcomes with institutional and divisional strategic plans. Manage all AAPI-focused scholarships within The Center. In collaboration with the assistant director for Intercultural Engagement, develop assessment measures that collect and track quantitative and qualitative university data and trends for training needs and partnership development for AAPI students.

Student Success and Supervision: Serve as primary point-of-contact/resource for AAPI identifying students, providing academic coaching, individualized guidance, and support. Serve as an advisor to AAPI scholarship recipients, specifically during their first year at CU Boulder, and meet one-on-one regularly to support students. Support students in identity development to contribute to their retention at the university. Serve as a reference guide for students as they navigate the university system and various departmental procedures to ensure that undocumented students maintain their enrollment, academic progress, and achieve their educational and personal goals. Lead, mentor, and evaluate performance for student interns/assistants and volunteers from a strengths-based perspective, related to their program or projects, particularly those focused on AAPI and Undocumented student programs and services. Refer students to appropriate campus resource areas, as needed (i.e. Center for Asian Studies, Student Academic Services Center, Basic Needs Center, Center for Student Involvement, Counseling and Psychiatric Services, Office of Victim Assistance, etc.). Create reflective spaces for students to understand, develop, celebrate, and support their salient and intersectional identities. Support AAPI students’ identity development to contribute to their retention at the university. Actively foster and maintain a workplace climate that is supportive of employees and respectful of differences, as well as create a learning environment for students that encourages personal development, self-reflection, and academic success.

Fiscal Operations and Assessment: Ensure the responsible planning and expenditure of fiscal resources in a manner consistent with equitable fiduciary responsibility. Provide timely/pertinent budgetary information to supervisor as necessary and process university fiscal paperwork promptly and accurately, and meet due dates for all requests for reports, data, publications, and budgets. Routinely assess the necessity of various expenditures, including but not limited to programming activities, student recognition, and professional development/training. Construct learning objectives and assessment measures for Intercultural Engagement events and programming, and provide quantitative and qualitative assessments to assess impacts on student retention. Assist with Center assessments and evaluations to determine that proper and adequate services and resources are being provided. Collect and track quantitative and qualitative university data and trends for training and advocacy needs.