Director of Campus Culture

The Director of the Office of Campus Culture leads campus educational initiatives about all cultures and broad viewpoint diversity; champions civility, empathy, respect and conflict management capacity building; supports belonging, student success, retention and outcomes. The Director leads the department which includes supervising student mentors and staff toward achieving high quality results. This is a full time, on-campus position. Generous benefits include health, retirement, considerable time off, and access to multiple tuition programs for employees and dependents.

Responsibilities:

• Support student success and belonging; serve as the Chicago Scholars liaison, supporting retention and student success; support first generation students with programs, communication and intervention supports; provide retention-centered outreach for student concerns and support; direct the IMPACT pre-orientation program; manage the MC House operations and support; support student organizations that focus on campus culture and plurality of perspectives; convenes the Council for Inclusion and Awareness and supports the Student Senate Diversity and Inclusion Commissioner
• Provide educational programs and training regarding all campus cultures for students; plan, implement, promote and assess Culture, Conversation and Civility (3C) programming; collaborate with students, faculty and staff to provide high quality education about cultures; coordinate signature events including the annual MLK Teach-in and Unity Gala (collaborative with Student Senate); collaborate with internal departments (residence life, athletics, fraternity/sorority life, academic departments), external agencies and organizations that support all cultures and civility programming
• Champions civility across cultures and viewpoints; serve on the Campus Culture Incident Response team, which includes Title VI compliance; collaborate with campus partners supporting respect initiatives like Green Dot bystander intervention, new student orientation and future Center for Civil Engagement; integrate civility values, strategies and skills into student programming and training (e.g. RA training, IMPACT, SEP, etc.); explore innovative ideas regarding civility and conflict management
• Departmental leadership and supervision; supervise the Assistant Director of Campus Culture and the Multi-Faith Engagement Coordinator; monitors and maintains departmental budget; assessment of programs and annual reporting of departmental successes and challenges

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required; preference for Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration; social justice and leadership
• Minimum of five years’ related experience in belonging and community work on a college campus; eight years experience may substitute for preferred master’s degree
• Knowledge of cultural experiences of students, retention trends, legal landscape regarding equity and conflict resolution
• Occasional evening/weekend work required
• Participates in Student Affairs On-Call rotation; must live within 30 miles of campus for emergency response