Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

The vision of the center is to provide high-impact, transformational community-building and educational programs to the CU Boulder community, and to nurture leaders grounded in the core concepts of intersectional identity development, diversity, equity, and social justice. Our values include:

• Transformative Educational Opportunities. Provide interactive intercultural and social justice educational workshops to promote students’ growth and development, to broaden their worldview, and to transform their perception of self through purposeful and meaningful interactions with others and thoughtful reflection.
• Intersectional Identity, Personal and Intercultural Development. Provide ongoing support via identity affirmation activities, which are fundamental to students’ psychological well-being, sense of validation, intercultural competence, and ability to reach their full potential.
• Service. Provide experiential learning opportunities to build a community of scholars committed to service, and to promote transformational growth and social justice in action.
• Cross-Cultural Engagement. Provide cultural programming to educate, engage, and provide/build community for and between students on campus.

Programming, Development, and Scholarship Coordination:

• Plan and implement high-impact programming that serves to enhance the academic and social success of AAPI students, including visibility campaigns and heritage celebrations. Implement AAPI programming in response to national/local incidents.
• Provide important connections for AAPI students to student organizations, identity centers, other programs, and services to holistically support their development and belonging.
• Create and maintain supportive, welcoming, and inclusive center spaces, and implement 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.
• Cultivate ongoing relationships with AAPI student organization leaders to provide opportunities for leadership development and community building, including but not limited to AAPI clubs and organizations.
• Collaborate with other IE colleagues to develop, coordinate, and conduct UndocuAlly training sessions offered to groups of faculty, staff, administrators, and students to increase the understanding of the needs of Undocumented students, particularly within the AAPI community.
• Support coordination efforts for orientations and workshops for current and prospective CU students and their families who identify as DACA, ASSET, children of immigrants, or otherwise Undocumented.
• Support CU Boulder’s Undocumented Student Services program at campus, community, and off-campus events.
• Collaborate with teams in the Center on programming and projects when and where appropriate for greater outreach.
• Align programmatic learning outcomes with institutional and divisional strategic plans.
• Manage all AAPI-focused scholarships within The Center.
• In collaboration with the assistant director for Intercultural Engagement, develop assessment measures that collect and track quantitative and qualitative university data and trends for training needs and partnership development for AAPI students.

Student Success and Supervision:

• Serve as primary point-of-contact/resource for AAPI identifying students, providing academic coaching, individualized guidance, and support.
• Serve as an advisor to AAPI scholarship recipients, specifically during their first year at CU Boulder, and meet one-on-one regularly to support students.
• Support students in identity development to contribute to their retention at the university.
• Serve as a reference guide for students as they navigate the university system and various departmental procedures to ensure that undocumented students maintain their enrollment, academic progress, and achieve their educational and personal goals.
• Lead, mentor, and evaluate performance for student interns/assistants and volunteers from a strengths-based perspective, related to their program or projects, particularly those focused on AAPI and Undocumented student programs and services.
• Refer students to appropriate campus resource areas, as needed (i.e. Center for Asian Studies, Student Academic Services Center, Basic Needs Center, Center for Student Involvement, Counseling and Psychiatric Services, Office of Victim Assistance, etc.).
• Create reflective spaces for students to understand, develop, celebrate, and support their salient and intersectional identities.
• Support AAPI students’ identity development to contribute to their retention at the university.
• Actively foster and maintain a workplace climate that is supportive of employees and respectful of differences, as well as create a learning environment for students that encourages personal development, self-reflection, and academic success.

Fiscal Operations and Assessment:

• Ensure the responsible planning and expenditure of fiscal resources in a manner consistent with equitable fiduciary responsibility.
• Provide timely/pertinent budgetary information to supervisor as necessary and process university fiscal paperwork promptly and accurately, and meet due dates for all requests for reports, data, publications, and budgets.
• Routinely assess the necessity of various expenditures, including but not limited to programming activities, student recognition, and professional development/training.
• Construct learning objectives and assessment measures for Intercultural Engagement events and programming, and provide quantitative and qualitative assessments to assess impacts on student retention.
• Assist with Center assessments and evaluations to determine that proper and adequate services and resources are being provided.
• Collect and track quantitative and qualitative university data and trends for training and advocacy needs.

The work schedule for this position is considered hybrid. Some nights and weekends may be required due to scheduled events or programming.

The starting salary for this position is $61,200-$64,000. Onboarding assistance may be available per Student Life guidelines.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 1+ year of relevant experience working with AAPI communities, including campus-wide programming, advising underserved and/or related underrepresented populations in an academic setting.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.

• Knowledgeable about the various policies that affect the educational opportunities of immigrant students.
• Understanding of diversity, inclusion, and equity concepts, frameworks, and practices.
• Familiarity with intersectional identities and student development theories.
• Understanding of nationally recognized practices, trends, and practices for underrepresented students in higher education.
• Capacity to work effectively with persons from a diverse set of backgrounds to promote an inclusive campus and community culture.
• Experience communicating and interacting with students through active listening, motivational interviewing, and providing mentorship.
• Strong ability to connect to a variety of audiences, build relationships, and foster trust.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Listen and communicate clearly in written and verbal formats.
• Understanding of the issues impacting Colorado’s immigrant and refugee communities, as well as national trends impacting undocumented communities.

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, women and gender studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, or related field.
• 2+ years of post-bachelor experience with campus-wide programming and advising underserved and/or related underrepresented populations.
• 3+ years of relevant experience working with AAPI communities and knowledgeable about the various policies that affect the educational opportunities of immigrant students.
• Relevant full-time professional experience in post-secondary education administration, including professional experience in program planning, student advising and support, assessment, and decision-making.
• Experience in a campus-based student affairs position, such as an identity center, Women’s Center, student activities center, or diversity and multicultural programs.
• Demonstrated experience in project management and/or student program planning.
• Proven 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.
• Demonstrated experience with program management, assessment, and evaluation.