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Assistant Director, LGBTQ+ Center

Employer
University at Buffalo
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States
Salary
Competitive Salary
Date posted
Jan 9, 2025
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Posting Details

Position Information

Fiscal Year
2024-2025

Position Title
Assistant Director, LGBTQ+ Center

Classification Title
Student Activities Assistant Director

Department
Intercultural & Diversity Center

Posting Number
P250013

Posting Link https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/54984

Employer
State

Position Type

Professional Appointment Term
Term

Salary Grade
SL3

Posting Detail Information

Position Summary

The Assistant Director of the LGBTQ+ Center works within the mission of the Division of Student Life to provide diverse programming to LGBTQ+ students in a safe, affirming, and welcoming environment. The Assistant Director provides vision, strategic leadership, and overall supervision to the LGBTQ+ Center in support of the University’s academic mission and the strategic priorities of Student Life.

The LGBTQ+ Center plays a critical role in student support and advisement, educational efforts, community building, fostering dialogue, and ongoing initiatives to ensure that all students have the fullest opportunity to flourish and succeed. In addition to overseeing the administrative and operational functions, the Assistant Director will work collaboratively to provide advice, counsel, referrals, and educational resources to LGBTQ+ students.

Responsibilities
  • Advance the mission of the LGBTQ+ Center by providing departmental leadership, management, and oversight, setting and guiding the overall vision and strategic direction for the center, and supporting students on topics related to LGBTQ+ identity.
  • Lead efforts to provide dynamic learning activities, programs, and dialogues that engage diverse perspectives and foster shared understanding in collaboration with students, student organizations, and campus and community stakeholders, and continually assess the effectiveness of center offerings.
  • Recruit, select, supervise, evaluate, and support the professional development of a strong team including one part-time graduate assistant and undergraduate student workers.
  • Carefully track and manage the LGBTQ+ Center budget; align budgetary allocations with divisional and institutional objectives and priorities.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact, resource, and support for students experiencing issues related to LGBTQ+ identity and provide direct support and connections with campus and community resources.
  • Other position-related duties as assigned.
Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds brings to the workforce. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

About Student Life
As a member of Student Life, you will join service professionals, all driven by one shared set of values designed to help ensure students’ well-being, create a safe and supportive environment, and promote student success. In Student Life, growth is a shared passion. We aim for excellence, thinking big and going bold. We pursue our goals tenaciously while stewarding the student experience. We build communities and advance diversity in all forms. We encourage discovery and celebrate success.

Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds bring to the workplace. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

Learn more: University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of experience or master’s degree or professional certification with no experience.
  • Overall demonstrated commitment to working with people with marginalized identities.
  • Established record of programs and events with attention to logistics, budgets, contracts and publicity.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Three (3) years of direct or indirect LGBTQ+ student service in higher education.
  • Experience with facilitation and design of workshops, as well as experience with group facilitation and individual advising of LGBTQ+ college student in a non-therapeutic context.
Physical Demands

Salary Range
$55,151 - $65,485

Additional Salary Information

Type
Full-Time

Campus
North Campus

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Is a background check required for this posting?
No

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Contact Information

Contact's Name
Ben Fabian

Contact's Pronouns

Contact's Title
Associate Director for Student Support and Resources

Contact's Email
blfabian@buffalo.edu

Contact's Phone
716-645-2982

Posting Dates

Posted
01/08/2025

Deadline for Internal Applicants
01/22/2025

Deadline for External Applicants
Open Until Filled

Date to be filled

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3

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 University at Buffalo

UB is New York’s largest public university, one of America’s leading research universities and a flagship in the SUNY system.

UB is a top 40 university in a top city in which to attend college, and with more than 1,300 acres across three unique campuses, there is always something new to explore. Regular shuttle service takes students between North Campus and South Campus, and the Downtown Campus is easily accessible by Metro Rail

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