| Position Summary: |
Are you passionate about creating transformative learning experiences that build connection, empathy, and global understanding across a university campus? Join the University of Dayton Global and Intercultural Affairs Center, as we help to shape a vibrant intercultural campus environment that celebrates diversity, fosters intercultural and global understanding, and empowers students to engage in ethical and socially responsible ways towards a more just and sustainable community. Apply for our Coordinator of Intercultural Student Engagement - Global and Intercultural Affairs Center opening!
We are looking for a creative and collaborative professional to lead existing and new co-curricular programming and events that promote student belonging, spark meaningful dialogue and deepen cultural awareness. In this role, the ideal candidate will play a key role in collaborating with campus partners to develop student leaders and helping to equip them with the intercultural and global skills essential for success in today’s interconnected world. Some remote/flexible work hours are possible.
The successful candidate, with guidance from the Senior Director, is responsible for the support and development of campus collaborative programming/events, dialogues, training and education, and delivery of marketing and communications efforts. Guided by frameworks of Internationalization at Home (IaH) and global citizenship, this individual will help to lead and support a portion of the Global Engagement student portfolio for the Center.
This may include:
-Design and deliver curricular, co-curricular, and programmatic experiences that build students’ intercultural skills and capacity to be globally conscious leaders. This includes design, instruction, and facilitation of mini-courses, dialogues, workshops, and programs
-Oversee and further develop the globally focused learning living community including all programmatic, logistical, curricular, co-curricular and teaching aspects of the program
-Coordinate and/or support small and large scale events
-Oversee and further develop the peer education program, which integrates a social justice education focus
-Lead and further develop Center’s student employee program by integrating high impact experiential learning practices
-Facilitate dialogues that explore intercultural and global themes, and facilitate presentations/workshops that help to build dialogic skills amongst students
-Foster students’ personal and cultural development, and inspire and cultivate their global awareness and engagement
-Continually review, adapt, and/or propose new efforts
-Supervise and cultivate Graduate Assistant and student employees
About the Global and Intercultural Affairs (GIA) Center:
GIA imagines a community of empowered global citizens building a just, peaceful, and sustainable world. Guided by our Marianist values, the GIA Center provides leadership, strategic direction, coordination, and support for the internationalization and global learning of campus. In collaboration with other University departments, partners and communities, we offer innovative programs and services to enhance global and intercultural education, support student success for all students and promote diversity and inclusion.
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| Minimum Qualifications: |
-Bachelor’s degree
-Minimum 2 years of work experience focused on intercultural, global, social justice education, or experiential learning, community engagement
-Intercultural sensitivity and ability to relate easily, effectively and equitably with people from diverse cultural and intersectional backgrounds that span within and beyond the U.S
-Experience with program or event development
-Highly organized, detail-oriented and ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines while maintaining high performance
-Successful collaboration and relationship-building skills
-Strong oral and written communication skills
-Commitment to student success and international education
-Ability and willingness to work some nights and weekends
-Knowledge of and sensitivity to a Catholic and Marianist work environment
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| Preferred Qualifications: |
While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:
-Master’s degree
-Three or more years of work experience focused on intercultural, global, social justice education, and/or experiential learning, community engagement
-Demonstrated understanding of student development theory, leadership development and/or frameworks grounded in Internationalization at Home (IaH), global citizenship, intercultural/global learning
-Demonstrated curriculum development and teaching experience
-Demonstrated experience with design and facilitation of dialogues
-Ability to cultivate engagement and collaboration with students and colleagues to move ideas forward and create impact
-Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative, team-based educational environment that values high expectations, integrity and leadership while possessing a positive and growth mindset
-Experience developing content for marketing and communications efforts
-Demonstrated technical literacy, including the ability to effectively use digital tools and learning technologies to design, facilitate, and evaluate programs
-Mentorship and/or supervision experience of students
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| Closing Statement: |
Informed by its Catholic and Marianist mission, the University is committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Informed by this commitment, we seek to increase diversity, achieve equitable outcomes, and model inclusion across our campus community. As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, we will not discriminate against minorities, women, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, or on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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