Assistant Director - African American Cultural Center
- Employer
- North Carolina State University
- Location
- North Carolina, United States
- Salary
- $46,000.00 - $50,000.00
- Date posted
- Feb 22, 2021
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Student Affairs, Minority & Multicultural Affairs, Student Activities & Services
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Campus Community Centers at North Carolina State University are posting multiple Assistant Director positions. These positions, who hold postings in the African American Cultural Center, the Women’s Center, and the office of Multicultural Student Affairs, carries several primary responsibilities, including but not limited to:
Management of signature programs and major initiatives,
Supervision of graduate and undergraduate student staff,
The building of program-specific campus partnerships,
Development, delivery, and assessment/evaluation of training and
educational opportunities focused on diversity, equity, and
inclusion.
This posting (00061121) is for the African American Cultural Center
within The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity at North
Carolina State University. We encourage all applicants to apply for
all postings in which they are interested.
The Women’s Center Assistant Director posting can be found using position # 00060640. Multicultural Student Affairs’ Assistant Director posting can be found using position # 00630823.
Primary Function of Organizational Unit:
The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity (OIED) is
committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible, and diverse
intellectual and cultural campus experience at North Carolina State
University (NC State). The OIED facilitates and supports efforts to
ensure equity and equal opportunity, offers diversity education and
training, and promotes inclusive excellence among students,
faculty, and staff. There are four OIED units: Campus Community
Centers; Inclusive Excellence and Strategic Practice; Equal
Opportunity and Equity; and Bias Impact Response. These units
collaborate to ensure accountability to compliance, policy, and
community care standards. They also monitor and respond to campus
climate needs, facilitate equity and inclusion assessment,
education, and training, and support underrepresented and
marginalized identity groups within the NC State community.
The Campus Community Centers are a unit within the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity. The Campus Community Centers are comprised of African American Cultural Center, GLBT Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, and the Women’s Center. Our community efforts play a role in increasing the participation, retention, and success of students, faculty, and staff from historically underrepresented groups. They ensure that NC State is an equitable and inclusive environment, one that is free from prohibited discrimination and harassment. Together, creating a community that provides a unified, campus-wide approach ensures that students, faculty, and staff learn and work within a campus defined by the best practices in equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The African American Cultural Center:
The African American Cultural Center (AACC) promotes awareness of
and appreciation for Black, African American, and African descent
experiences through activities and events that enhance academic
excellence and strengthen cultural competence for the campus and
surrounding communities. Founded in 1970 and located in the
Augustus M. Witherspoon Student Center in 1991, the AACC serves the
NC State campus community as a central hub for Black student,
faculty, and staff support, development, and community engagement.
The AACC offers intersectional cultural engagement and educational
experiences that draw upon faculty and student-led research, campus
climate data, and higher education best practices to examine,
highlight, and celebrate histories, narratives, and cultures of
people of the diaspora, both within NC State and beyond. The
African American Cultural Center is a 10,000 square foot facility
within the Witherspoon Student Center. It includes a 1200 sq. ft.
art gallery, a 1200 sq. ft. library, a 200-seat multi-purpose room,
and an administrative suite that houses two meeting/lecture rooms
and seven student organization offices.
The African American Cultural Center stays actively engaged in the academic life of NC State with programs, resources, and services that facilitate the cultural, intellectual, and social growth of the university community. The AACC Assistant Director reports to the Director of the African American Cultural Center who reports to the Senior Director of the Campus Community Centers. The Senior Director reports to the Vice Provost for the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer, a member of the Chancellor’s Cabinet.
Essential Job Duties
Assistant Directors serve a crucial function in ongoing student
development, advocacy, and support. Additionally, the Assistant
Director leads the development and delivery of signature programs,
relevant subject matter training and workshops, campus
collaborations and has a focus on strategic initiatives. A
successful candidate demonstrates an ability to apply an
intersectional, social equity framework to support the center’s
strategic goals.
Position Description/General Scope of Duties
Programming + Strategic Campus Support
Lead the development, planning, and implementation of the signature
programs, campus support, and educational initiatives; including
significant responsibilities for program delivery and/or
instruction; maintain current knowledge of relevant research,
community climate data, and trends, and student needs assessment,
manage program-specific campus and community partnerships; apply
project/program management best practices to ensure timely and
effective implementation; curate accessible, intersectional, social
equity-focused content; evaluate programs using methods that align
with Center goals and OIED assessment strategies and models; create
budgets and ensure alignment with appropriate financial controls,
processes, and procedures;
Support strategic planning and goal implementation; participate in
annual goal and objective setting; collect and provide regular
evaluation results from programs; participate in annual report
preparation.
Student Supervision
Supervise graduate students and student staff; advertise for, hire,
and train student employees; develop and assign meaningful and
appropriate academic and professional growth opportunities; provide
feedback and performance evaluation; assign and monitor student
hours based on available student staff budget; train student staff
on relevant reporting requirements, resource availability, and
procedures; collaborate with other Campus Community Centers to
design and develop student employee training and onboarding;
Community Building
Collaborate with campus partners (faculty, Counseling Center,
Prevention Services, college diversity directors, etc.) to curate
programs and support spaces; establish measures to identify support
needs and ensure that resources provide intersectional, culturally
responsive care; engage appropriate reporting in alignment with
University processes and procedures;
Collaborate with the OIED Inclusive Excellence and Strategic
Practice (IESP) team (and other OIED teams as appropriate) to
create, deliver, and evaluate equity, inclusion, and advocacy
focused educational training, workshops, and presentations that
align with the work of the center, OIED, and University strategic
goals, objectives and campus climate needs; review and respond to
training/engagement requests;
Strategic Communication + Outreach
Oversee media management and general marketing for initiatives and
programs; collaborate closely with the OIED communications team;
social media engagement planning and management; work with student
marketing interns; contribute to Diversity Digest and other campus
publications and outreach efforts.
Other Work/Responsibilities include:
Assist with Center strategic planning and program
assessment.
Coordinate supplemental programming for AACC Gallery
Exhibitions.
Represent AACC in various campus committees (social justice
initiatives, leadership initiatives and search committees)
Additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Education and Experience
-Master’s degree required in Africana/African American Studies,
Africana/African American History, Sociology/Anthropology, Public
Policy or a related area of study
-At least 2 years of professional experience in a higher education
setting
Other Required Qualifications
Application of relevant theories and frameworks which center Black
and African diasporic literature, culture, history, and futurity in
program planning and implementation;
Demonstrated work history of commitment to student development and
knowledge of best practices for advising student leaders and
student organizations;
Demonstrated success in program development, delivery and
assessment, preferably in higher education settings;
Experience with strategic program planning and budget
management;
Experience with research and curriculum development;
Demonstrated ability to support identity-based concerns;
Supervision, advising, and volunteer management experience of
student staff;
Demonstrated successful experience, in individually and
collaboratively, developing, delivering, facilitating, and
assessing/evaluating training, workshops, or presentations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with programming within an African American/ Black
Cultural Center or identity-based organization focused on social
justice, equity, and inclusion is strongly preferred;
An advanced application of intersectional and critical social
justice frameworks; feminist, womanist, queer theories and
concepts; and multicultural perspectives in student-centered
program planning and implementation;
Awareness of how a broad range of issues impact individuals within
systems of oppression based on multiple identities and
positionalities, including gender, race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, age, disability, worldview and other significant
aspects of identity.
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