Assistant Director, LGBTQ + Education

Position Summary:

Are you a passionate educator, committed to helping college students learn more about sexual orientation, gender identity, and healthy relationship development? The Brook Center is hiring for an assistant director, LGBTQ+ education, who will advise our Q*munity Leader peer educators, organize campus wide programming such as Pride Week, build community within the Kennedy/Baird LGBTQ+ and Allied Student Lounge, grow our Ally+ Workshop, and create educational presentations for students across campus. Join us!

The assistant director, LGBTQ+ education will serve as a member of a larger integrative team within the Brook Center, which houses LGBTQ+ education, mental health education, wellbeing, and sexual violence prevention education. As a critical member of this team, the assistant director develops and provides a comprehensive educational plan for all undergraduate students on sexual orientation and gender identity, creates opportunity for community building amongst LGBTQ+ students, and supports LGBTQ+ students in a manner reflective of UD's Catholic and Marianist mission. Education will be targeted to all students, with specific programs designed for entering students, upper class students, students in fraternity and sorority life, athletes, and student staff.

Education and Training
- Coordinate and grow the Ally+ workshop into an institutionalized, sustainable, and responsive model by serving as the primary manager, to include co-facilitating the 4 hour training, training the trainers (other faculty and staff across campus) to serve as co-facilitators, creating booster events and programming throughout the year, recruiting training participants, and creating opportunity for ally initiatives
- Create, implement, and assess comprehensive, trauma-informed, evidence-based educational programming through classroom presentations and partnering with student organizations. Education topics will include, but are not limited to: sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual identity, heterosexual and cisgender privilege, intersectionality, allyship, and inclusive language.
- Target specific populations with education and training, including fraternity and sorority life, student athletes, student organizations, and student staffs, and partner with faculty to bring this education into the classroom environment
- Create vision and oversee strategic programming, including Pride Week, Coming Out Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and bringing keynote speakers
- Create tailored educational campaigns for underrepresented student populations, including international students, students of color, LGBTQ+ student populations, etc.
- Serve as the primary adviser to Q*mmunity Leaders, the student peer education program, including serving as instructor for UDI 404, their 1 credit hour mini course.
- Maintain a commitment to continuous improvement by engaging in ongoing assessment to ensure that services remain dynamic, responsive, and relevant to the needs of LGBTQ+ students.

Visibility and student services
-Manage the Kennedy/Baird LGBTQ+ and Allied Student Lounge
- Provide clear and accessible information about services and resources to the entire community, and consistently seek new and innovative ways to engage with the campus community
- Promote existing University and Marianist documents that uphold the University's support of, service to, and pastoral care for LGBTQ+ individuals
- Create opportunities for student involvement and leadership that will encourage healthy gender and sexual identity development, with special care taken toward students living outside the gender binary
- Support students in their healthy identity development through one on one conversation and by creating safe spaces for students to build community

Collaboration
- Closely collaborate with campus partners, including Campus Ministry, Student Government Association, Spectrum, The Multi-Ethnic Education & Engagement Center (MEC), the Diversity Action Team, the Equity Compliance Office, Counseling Center, and QDayton to further the strategic goals related to the unit’s mission and support LGBTQ+ students and their diverse needs
- Serve on relevant Student Development, University, and campus partner committees

Climate
- Conduct all professional interactions and educational programming with sensitivity to the Catholic and Marianist mission of the institution
- Assist students in understanding non-discrimination policy, Title IX, and corresponding reporting processes
- Consult with Equity Compliance and other offices across campus to consider the impact of policies on the LGBTQ+ student community and work toward inclusion
- Stay up to date on national trends, best practices, and new, relevant research across disciplines

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in related field with 2 years of experience desig