Director of Unity Center

Director of Unity Center

Unity Center

Rhode Island College

Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of Director of Unity Center. This is a full-time, calendar year, continuing position.

The individual will oversee the mission, vision, strategic planning, and operations of the Unity Center. The Unity Center serves as a brave space on campus for all students to engage in meaningful and critical conversations that challenges systems of oppression and affirms and promotes equity for students that have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised. It does this by working with campus and community partners to create a warm and welcoming climate where all students belong and have equitable opportunities and outcomes; offering transformative workshops for student centered spaces; and initiating restorative practices where there has been conflict. The Unity Center houses identity-specific resources for students of color, LGBTQ+ students with compromised citizenship status, first generation students, and students seeking interface services. The Unity Center is also home to RIC’s restorative practices, and conflict resolution services.

Rhode Island College is a regional comprehensive public college that serves approximately 6,400 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students through its five schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Business, the School of Nursing and the School of Social Work. Established in 1854, we are Rhode Island’s first public institution of higher education.

Required qualifications:

• Master’s degree in student personnel, counseling, higher education or related field. Five years’ work experience related to identity-work and student development practices   Experience and interest in pedagogy of student development practices with a lens of equity, restorative and liberation. Demonstrated experience in program development and assessment.      Minimum of three years’ experience in budget preparation and oversight.

Preferred qualifications:

• Terminal degree in related field  Demonstrated experience in obtaining grant funding Demonstrated understanding of identity development theory (as it related to the systemic and institutional factors that support the retention and graduation of multicultural students). Fluency in second spoken language (i.e., Spanish, etc.).

Application deadline: 10/12/2022

Proposed starting salary: $70,721  

  For a full job description, which includes additional responsibilities and requirements for the position and application procedures, see https://employment.ric.edu/. Candidates must apply on-line, using Rhode Island College’s PeopleAdmin Applicant Tracking system.

As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity institution that values and is committed to inclusion and expanding the diversity of its faculty and staff, the College invites members of protected classes, including minorities and persons with disabilities, to identify themselves as such at the time of application.

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