Academic Department Coordinator for American Studies

Employer: Middlebury College
Location: Vermont, United States
Salary: Salary Not specified
Date posted: Jan 10, 2025

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Position Type: Faculty Positions, Humanities, English & Literature
Employment Level: Mid-Level
Employment Type: Part Time

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Academic Department Coordinator for American Studies & English

Description
The Academic Department Coordinator advances the educational mission of the academic department(s) and program(s) that they serve by providing a high level of support to faculty, staff and students, while cultivating compliance with college-wide administrative procedures

This is a part time, benefits eligible, hourly position with a hiring range of $23.66 - $29.58 per hour. The hours per week is 30 hours during the academic year with eight weeks in the summers off. This position requires work to be completed mostly on campus, with some flexibility to work partially remotely.

Core Responsibilities:

Ensures departmental/programmatic stability and institutional knowledge through documentation and personal experience, especially during department chair/program director transitions (every 1-3 years).
Supports and advises department chairs, program directors, and faculty members with operational, budgetary, organizational, project management, and technical expertise including College processes, policies & guidelines.
Participates in the implementation of departmental goals and objectives.
Administrates processes central to the academic mission including but not limited to course offerings and student placements for registration, course catalog updates, major and minor verifications, department honors, external reviews, and faculty recruiting.
Serves as a key liaison between academic programs and all other offices, services, and students.
Collaborates in the planning and implementation of department-hosted guest speakers, events, and field trips.
Takes responsibility for ordering at multiple levels from basic office and academic supplies to complex equipment, supplies, and contracted services.
Undertakes responsibilities that can vary across departments and programs

Requirements

Works well independently, prioritizes essential tasks, makes decisions, and meets deadlines despite frequent interruptions.
Has excellent communication, writing and editing skills with attention paid to fine detail as well as the ability to anticipate, recognize and correct errors.
Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills and a willingness to work with a wide variety of people including students, faculty, and staff.
Has excellent technological skills and computer literacy and is willing to learn multiple computer programs simultaneously.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and file sharing required.
Associates degree required; Bachelor's degree preferred or 5 years of administrative experience.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
This position requires work to be completed mostly on campus, with some flexibility to work partially remotely.

Other:
An offer for this position is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.

Benefits
As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of sporting facilities (including the College's golf course and Nordic and alpine ski areas). The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:

MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the College store, library privileges, and discounts at cultural and sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain campus buildings. Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees are eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same privileges as the employee card (except door access).
Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.
Access to our Partner Inclusion Program that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury employees.
A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our website by following this web link: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits
Or click see some of the other fun perks of working at Middlebury, whether in Vermont or Monterey!

Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

To apply, visit: https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/07780B7280/

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Middlebury College

Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.

Middlebury's undergraduate college is enriched by its other programs. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont is transformed into an institution single-mindedly devoted to the study of nine foreign languages and cultures, and the use of English is virtually banned for the participants, among whom are many Middlebury undergraduates. In the Green Mountains lies Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus, where for six weeks each summer the Bread Loaf School of English is in session. This is followed by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which brings together 200 authors and aspiring authors for 11 days of intensive exchange about the art of writing. The Bread Loaf School of English is in session each summer not only in Middlebury but also at Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville

There is also an overseas dimension to Middlebury College. The C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are located in Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Córdoba, Ferrara, Florence, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hangzhou, Irkutsk, La Serena, Logroño, Madrid, Mainz, Montevideo, Moscow, Niterói, Paris, Poitiers, Santiago, Temuco, Tucumán, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Xalapa, and Yaroslavl. These schools enroll more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who seek to further their foreign language skills and immerse themselves as fully as possible in the host culture through academic study as well as direct experience.