Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

The Center for Inclusion and Social Change supports students in the exploration of all of their identities. The center is a welcoming and inclusive space on campus that supports academic and personal growth. Students can become active, informed global citizens by engaging and interacting with individuals from different cultures, and staff provide community-building programs and educational opportunities for students to learn and teach.

First-Generation Scholar Program Coordination:

• Assist in the development and maintenance of the First-Generation workshop curriculum and scholar roster.
• Work closely with the Associate Director and the Scholarships Office on all aspects of the First-Generation Scholarship process.
• Assist and support comprehensive programs and services to enhance the academic and social success of First-Generation Scholars with a focus on activities related to engagement and retention.
• Actively strive to foster and maintain a workplace climate that is supportive of employees and respectful of differences, as well as to create a learning environment for students that encourages personal development, self-reflection, and academic success.
• Assist in creating and implementing outcome-based innovative transformative programs that invite all students to communicate across lines of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other social identities.
• Assist in ongoing programs and services for traditionally underserved students, first-generation, low socio-economic status, particularly those from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, to promote academic and personal growth and success.

First-Generation Scholar Student Support:

• Support and advise all students in the First-Generation Scholars Program, specifically during their first year of programming requirements.
• Focus on the first-year curriculum with the transition to a scholar's second year.
• Refer scholars to appropriate campus resources areas for support, as needed (i.e. Student Academic Success Center, Center for Student Involvement, Basic Needs Center, etc.).
• Meet one-on-one with all first-year First-Generation Scholars in the spring semester to support students transitioning from their first to second year.
• Create reflective spaces for scholars to celebrate their first-generation identity.
• Operate the cohort through a mentorship framework.

Campus-Wide Programming, Development, & Coordination:

• Assist with campus-wide first-generation initiatives such as First-Gen Fridays and National First-Generation College Celebration Day.
• Assist the Associate Director with first-generation presentations, conferences, retreats, and workshops.
• Assist and support CISC-wide and campus conferences and programs.
• Assist with intercultural student leadership training/conference programs that emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion and are in collaboration with other departments, staff, and faculty (i.e. Men of Excellence).
• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with colleagues across divisions.
• Assist with the collaboration of faculty and staff in the broad-based promotion of inclusion, social change, and campus diversity via campus-wide programming and support for first-generation and underrepresented students.

Operations and Fiscal Responsibility:

• Provide timely/pertinent budgetary information to the supervisor as necessary throughout the year.
• Process the university's fiscal paperwork promptly and accurately.
• Supervise student staff supporting the First-Generation program.
• Routinely assess the necessity of various expenditures, including but not limited to programming activities, student recognition, and professional development/training.
• Meet due dates for all requests for reports, data, publications, and budgets.
• Ensure the responsible planning and expenditure of fiscal resources in a manner consistent with good fiduciary responsibility.

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, or other related field and three years of post-bachelor experience with campus-wide programming and advising first-generation and/or underrepresented students.
• Proven experience in project management and/or student program planning.
• Experience developing and facilitating diversity and inclusion presentations and student success workshops.
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment.

• Ability to develop and lead programs, courses, events, and content to scale impact across various constituent groups.
• Ability to engage, teach, and energize various constituent groups.
• Knowledge of higher education leadership and administration, structure and governance, and factors that affect decision-making at a research institution.
• Understanding of nationally recognized practices, trends, and procedures for first-generation and underrepresented students.
• Capacity to work effectively with persons from diverse backgrounds to promote an inclusive campus and community culture.
• Listen and communicate clearly in written and verbal formats.
• Set priorities in a complex environment and represent the institution’s perspective to external entities.

• Master’s degree in higher education administration or related field, and a minimum of 2 years of relevant full-time professional experience in post-secondary education administration, including professional experience in program planning, assessment, and decision-making.
• Leadership experience in retention program development and diversity programming/education.
• Demonstrated experience in understanding issues and trends in higher education programs that focus on the retention needs of low-income first-generation, historically underrepresented, marginalized, and/or underserved college students.
• Demonstrated experience with providing high-impact and culturally engaging educational programs.