"Director of Leadership & Community Engagement"

Job Summary

Lead the supervision, administration, and evaluation of a comprehensive student leadership and community engagement program on multiple campuses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of the Division of Student Affairs Leadership Team (SALT). SALT members lead and foster staff engagement, are knowledgeable of issues that impact the Division, and collaborate with one another. SALT members lead and foster creative thinking while championing innovative programs that impact student success.
• Foster an inclusive university community and promote equity for all students.
• Oversee organization, administration, supervision, and evaluation of the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement (OLCE) across multiple campuses. Functional areas within OLCE include leadership development initiatives, community engagement and service, sustainability programming, and Student Government Association.
• Attend events/programs/activities that are sponsored by other departments within or by the Division that include/do not include own department several times each semester.
• Manage departmental budget and financial accounts from varied sources (Student Activity Fee, Sustainability Fee, E&G, other revenue).
• Align and integrate area mission and goals across other functional areas by identifying ways to collaborate intra-divisionally and university-wide on events, initiatives, programs, or services.
• Lead development of curricular and co-curricular interdisciplinary leadership and service learning opportunities.
• Oversee organization and evaluation of LEAD courses offered by OLCE.
• Develop relationships with the community and local agencies to establish and maintain academic and co-curricular partnerships.
• Supervise and evaluate professional staff, graduate students and student assistants.
• Direct training with staff and students that includes content to grow understanding of assigned work duties, collaboration, and belonging.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

• Master's Degree

Required Experience

• Five (5) or more years of related work experience
• Supervisory and leadership experience
• Budget development and management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Abilities in teaching, coaching, leadership development and/or community engagement principles
• Master's Degree in Higher Education, Student Personnel or Student Affairs
• Two (2) or more years as an Assistant, Associate or Director in student leadership development, community engagement or related experience

Proposed Salary

$72,000 - $77,000

Required Documents to Attach

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Three (3) to Five (5) Professional References

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Abilities

• Consistently exhibit engaging customer service
• Ability to support various constituencies served by the University
• Proven proficiency with computers including Microsoft Office, Google, and/or applications as required for specific position
• Ability to respond effectively to the sensitive inquiries or complaints
• Ability to create/develop and implement programs, plans/goals, policies and procedures
• Ability to identify and address problems, formulate rules, articulate policies and rules to internal and external constituents
• Ability to communicate to a broad range of people including students, faculty, staff, and members of the community
• Commitment to development of academic-residential campus environment through student-centered, collaborative teamwork across academic and Student Affairs units

Knowledge

• Adhere to University policies and procedures to meet Institutional goals and support University's mission for student success
• Awareness/understanding of elements related to Carnegie Classifications of community engagement
• Demonstrated ability to initiate and produce leadership development programming to a college student audience
• Understanding of methods to engage community partners with the University
• Broad understanding of University policies, procedures and practices
• Problem-solving and team-building experience

Skills

• Effective communication (verbal and written), organizational and human relations skills
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Demonstrated ability to guide and shape leadership development programming to college students
• Demonstrate a personal code of ethics within professional practice

About Us

Join Our Team at Georgia Southern! Georgia Southern is a dynamic university with three vibrant campuses in Hinesville, Savannah and Statesboro serving the communities in Southeast Georgia. As a Carnegie Doctoral/R2 institution, our world-class scholars instruct about 26,000 students in associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral level degree programs.