Interim Assistant Director

Interim Assistant Director

Posting Number: S01322JP

Department: McKeen Center for the Common Good

Job Summary:
.The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to discover the ways in which their talents, passions, and academic pursuits can be cultivated for the benefit of society through public engagement. The Assistant Director oversees the Alternative Breaks program, including trip selection and coordination as well as trip leader training and supervision. The assistant director also coordinates the McKeen Center's Community Immersion Orientation program featuring 15 trips across the state of Maine, oversees community partnership and student engagement in Common Good Project Teams, and advises 3-5 student-led volunteer groups.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee Alternative Breaks program, including trip and leader selection, participant recruitment and selection, leader training, budget management, trip logistics, emergency management, and post-trip participant reflection.
• Oversee Community Immersion Orientation Trips, including leader selection and training, budget management, trip logistics, emergency management, and coordination with key campus partners, such as the Bowdoin Outing Club.
• Coordinate Common Good Project Teams, including communication with student groups and community partners and logistical support of projects.
• Advise 3-5 Bowdoin Volunteer Corps groups; meet with group leaders monthly and serve as a resource as they get their group started each semester or when challenges arise in their service.
• Supervise student program assistants; meet with them weekly and advise them in their leadership role with relevant programs.

McKeen Center programming provides students with the knowledge and skills to examine, question, and address the challenges facing communities locally and throughout the world. Our commitment to the common good includes exploration of power, privilege, and social justice and the assistant director must demonstrate the ability to incorporate discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the programming they oversee.

Education/Skills Requirements:
Bachelor's degree required.

The Assistant Director must demonstrate a commitment to working closely with a multicultural population of undergraduates; demonstrate multicultural competence and the ability to help students explore their own identities (e.g. race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.) in the context of community engagement; be able to work independently and as a part of a team; be collaborative and well organized; demonstrate initiative and exercise sound judgment; and enjoy working with community members and leaders of social service and civic agencies and schools.

Experience Requirements and/or Equivalents:

• Community engagement principles in an educational setting or best practices in non-profit or public service programming.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the context of education, community engagement, or the non-profit sector.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills appropriate for communicating with students, alumni, and community partners.
• Program management skills including setting and achieving learning goals, relationship and curriculum development, and reflection facilitation.
• Ability to advise students in areas such as career exploration, internships, or academic pursuits.
• Strong organizational skills.

Standard Work Days and Hours:
This is an interim position for the 2024-2025 academic year, with the appointment ending on or before June 30, 2025.

The expectation of approximately 40 hours/week taking place Monday-Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., plus one evening per week throughout the academic year. Additional evening and weekend work is occasionally required. This is a .92 FTE exempt position requiring the time commitment necessary to satisfactorily complete job requirements.

Benefits and Pay:

• The annual salary range for this exempt position is expected to be: $54,000 - 57,000
• A variety of health insurance plans (Medical, Vision, Dental)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid time off - Vacation, Personal, Holidays, and Special Days Off Paid parental leave.
• Free fitness and wellness classes!
• And more: https://www.bowdoin.edu/hr/benefits-perks/index.html

About Bowdoin:
Bowdoin embraces diversity in all forms, and the College is home to talented students, faculty and staff—with a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; religious beliefs; and gender identities, among other factors.

We encourage applications from candidates committed to the support of an inclusive campus community and those who will enrich and contribute to the College's multifaceted diversity. We value a community in which individuals of all backgrounds are warmly welcomed and encouraged to succeed.

Founded in 1794, Bowdoin has maintained its commitment to the liberal arts for well over 200 years. Bowdoin's reputation as a preeminent liberal arts college rests on the excellence of its faculty, students, and staff; intimate size; strong sense of community; and connections to the people, history, and natural beauty of Maine.

Bowdoin's campus is situated in a beautiful natural setting. Located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000, the College is a short drive from the Maine coast, twenty-five miles from Portland and 120 miles from Boston.

Shift:

Employment Category: Full Time Academic Year

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Pay Type: Salaried

Background Check Package Requirements: Administrative Staff + MVR

Is driving a Bowdoin vehicle an essential function of this job?:

Is a pre-placement physical required for this position?: No

Posting Date: 09/06/2024

Applications Accepted Until:

Open Until Filled: No

Special Instructions to Applicants:

EEO Information:
Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses.

To apply, visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/14731 jeid-6aa14b7886147a40a3eec33d65ab3f8e