Director, Center for Equity & Social Justice

Details:

Posted: July 12, 2024
Level: Community College Professional 19, 12-month, tenure track position.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Closing Date: The committee will begin the review of applications immediately. Applications must be submitted by 5:00 pm (EST) on Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Location:

Gateway Campus
20 Church Street, New Haven, CT  06510
**This position is not remote**

For more information, please visit the campus website or www.ct.edu/hr/jobs

CT State Community College Mission:

Connecticut State Community College provides access to academically rigorous and innovative education and training focused on student success. The college supports excellence in teaching and learning, makes data-informed decisions, promotes equity, and advances positive change for the students, communities and industries it serves.

CT State Community College Vision:

Connecticut State Community College is recognized for exceptional student success, educational leadership and transformative collaboration with business and industry, government, educational and key stakeholders while advancing diverse opportunities for Connecticut’s citizens and communities.

CT State Community College Equity Statement:

Connecticut State Community College commits to bold and disruptive change by actively identifying, naming, and dismantling structural racism, systemic poverty, and other barriers; establishing equitable and anti-racist policies and practices; and empowering students, faculty, staff, and administrators to advance racial, social, and economic justice. Our core collective responsibility is to continuously assess practices and policies and transform the world we live in by eliminating inequities.

Anticipated Start Date: 

Fall 2024

Position Summary:

The Director for the Gateway Center for Equity and Social Justice, facilitates and manages a comprehensive array of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives at a Gateway Community College to assist and support students, staff, faculty and the community and serves as the primary administrator for the Center for Equity and Social Justice at the college.

Example of Job Duties:

Under the direction of the Campus CEO, the Director Center for Equity and Social Justice is accountable for facilitating, internally and externally, non-academic support services for students and equity-minded programming for staff and faculty through effective performance in these essential functional areas:

• Program planning and development
  • accountable for developing a comprehensive program of non-academic assistance to contribute to attainment of the College’s goals of providing higher education to its students.
• Service delivery
  • accountable for the effective and efficient delivery of non- academic supports for students and equity-minded services to the College’s staff and faculty.
• Training, development and direction of staff, consultants, and community partners
  • accountable for providing an appropriately qualified staff, consultants and community partners for assuring their effective performance.
• Budget and fiscal management.
  • accountable for management of financial resources and for the value of services provided with those resources.

In addition to the accountabilities listed above, the incumbent is required to carry out the essential duties of: Attendance and participation at convocation and commencement ceremonies; Service on assigned committees and task forces; Attendance and participation at committee, staff, informational and professional meetings.  These may involve attendance at evening or weekend events.

This posting includes qualifications, experience and skills but is not limited to the full specifications stated in the job description.

Incumbents must possess proven ability to effectively work with culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse faculty, staff, and students. They are expected to have excellent oral and written communication skills along with strong Information technology literacy skills such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree in an appropriately related field together with two (2) or more years of related experience which includes up to two (2) years of experience in the supervision of the work of others; or a combination of education, training and experience which would lead to the competencies required for successful performance of the position’s essential duties.

Incumbents are required to have demonstrated advanced knowledge and abilities