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Coordinator for Native/Indigenous Student Involvement & Community Advocacy
Job Description
Position Number:
128248Title:
CoordinatorFunctional Title:
Coordinator for Native/Indigenous Student Involvement & Community AdvocacyCategory Status:
33-Exempt RegularApplicant Search Category:
StaffUniversity Authorized FTE:
100%Unit:
VPSA-SU-MICACampus/College Information:
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.
Position Summary/Purpose of Position:
This position is charged with attending to the community development needs of Native American Indian/Indigenous students as well as providing leadership in advancing cross-cultural learning initiatives for the larger UMD student community through the MICA office.
Specific Duties:
Specific Duties:
- Foster community among Native American Indian/Indigenous students, serving as an advocate for the needs of these communities in and out of the classroom and promoting their intellectual, personal, social, leadership, and identity development.
- Develop, implement, and/or support programmatic initiatives that foster learning about diversity and multiculturalism and its relationship to leadership development both within and across identity-based student groups by collaborating with staff within the MICA office as well as across campus units and departments.
- Co-manage administrative tasks related to data collection, MICA website updates, TERPLink (UMD-branded Campus Labs), program budgeting, and other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required in a field of education, counseling, student affairs, multicultural education, or a related field.
Experience:
- One year of professional and/or two years of graduate-level experience in Student Affairs work in a University setting is required.
- Experience in developing and implementing programs that promote student learning about identity and difference within the context of a multicultural society is required.
- Experience and interest in working with students of color, LGBT-identified students, and students with multiple, intersecting identities, including first-generation. Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
Preferences:
- The ideal candidate shall possess sound judgment, maturity, sensitivity to the complexities of identity development, and passion for effecting change in dynamic multicultural environments.
- Experience in advising cultural or identity-based student organizations is strongly preferred.
- Experience in using the arts (e.g., theater, music, visual/fine arts) as a way to promote learning about diversity and multiculturalism is highly desirable.
Job Risks
Not Applicable to This PositionPhysical Demands
Work takes place in both an office environment and in on-campus buildings; will require ability to travel throughout campus. There may be occasions when the incumbent will need to work outside their normal work shift to accommodate other shifts that exist in the organization for purposes of meetings, training, etc.
Posting Date:
03/24/2023Closing Date:
05/07/2023Open Until Filled
NoBest Consideration Date
04/23/2023Diversity Statement:
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
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