Director of Unity Center
Director of Unity Center
Unity Center
Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of Director of Unity Center. This is a full-time, calendar year, continuing position.
The Director will oversee the mission, vision, strategic planning, and operations of the Unity Center. The Unity Center serves as a brave space on campus for all students to engage in meaningful and critical conversations that challenge systems of oppression and affirms and promotes equity for students that have been historically marginalized and disenfranchised. It does this by working with campus and community partners to create a warm and welcoming climate where all students belong and have equitable opportunities and outcomes; offering transformative workshops for student centered spaces; and initiating restorative practices where there has been conflict. The Unity Center houses identity-specific resources for students of color, LGBTQ+ students, students that experience gender disparity, students with compromised citizenship status, first generation students, and students seeking interfaith services. Because trauma and conflict often go hand in hand with many of these communities, the Unity Center is also home to RIC’s restorative practices, and conflict resolution services.
The Office of Student Life offers opportunities that honor the whole self and promote the social, professional, and emotional development of our student community. From orientation to graduation, this office aims to create a sense of belonging that fosters advocacy, connection, and leadership across campus and in the community. Working closely with Student Community Government, our student organizations and student leaders, we prioritize and value student centered learning, student led initiatives, and most importantly student voice.
Required qualifications:
- Master’s degree in student personnel, counseling, higher education or related field.
- Five years’ working experience related to identity-work and student development.
- Experience and interest in pedagogy of student development practices with a lens of equity, restorative practice and liberation.
- Demonstrated experience in program development an assessment.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in budget preparation and oversight.
- Knowledge of equity-based issues, local and national best practices for organizing and mobilizing and community-based resources.
Preferred qualifications:
- Terminal degree in related field.
- Demonstrated experience in obtaining grant funding.
- Demonstrated understanding of identity development theory (as it relates to the systemic and institutional factors that support the retention and graduation of multicultural students.)
- Bilingual
Application deadline: 2/14/2023
Proposed starting salary: $72,489
For a full job description, which includes additional responsibilities and requirements for the position and application procedures, see https://employment.ric.edu/. Candidates must apply on-line, using Rhode Island College’s PeopleAdmin Applicant Tracking system.
As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity institution that values and is committed to inclusion and expanding the diversity of its faculty and staff, the College invites members of protected classes, including minorities and persons with disabilities, to identify themselves as such at the time of application.
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