Senior Department and Student Affairs Administrator

Department
 

SSD Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity - Staff and Temporary Employees

About the Department
 

The Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity (RDI) is dedicated to investigating, interrupting, and challenging the historical and social processes, the cultural and political practices, and the formations of identity and community that are integral to these three concepts. Our project is committed to knowledge-making founded in the dynamism of social life and resistance to bondage, exploitation, and dispossession. The ambition of the department is to foster a breadth of vision, new aesthetic imaginaries, conceptual rigor, innovative pedagogical approaches, and deep engagement within and beyond the university that will enable communities to tackle some of the most challenging issues of the current historical moment in ways that defy intellectual, disciplinary, and geographic orders.

Job Summary
 

The job provides professional research and recommendations in the development and implementation of faculty support programs.

Provides high-level professional leadership and support for a broad range of faculty and student affairs, and curriculum planning. Is the primary staff member handling searches, and interacting with the Dean’s Office. Serves as the first point of service to departmental faculty and students on a wide range of academic matters. Serves as the primary liaison with the SSD Dean’s office, the SSD Dean of Students Office, and the College. Supports the chair and associate chair in developing and implementing departmental procedures in accordance with University policies. Supervises other departmental staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage administrative procedures for academic hiring, recruitment, reappointment/promotion, and resignation/retirement            

• Serve as primary departmental resource and primary liaison with the Dean’s office for a broad range of academic HR and payroll matters; maintain up-to-date knowledge of University and Divisional procedures related to faculty and other academic searches, appointments, reappointment/promotion review

• Coordinate and support faculty committees charged with faculty and other academic hiring, recruitment, appointment, and reappointment/promotion; manage related procedures and case documentation.

• Manage record-keeping to monitor student progress toward completion of program requirements; troubleshoot students’ quarterly course registration issues, as needed; advise students on requirements, completion deadlines, and necessary actions related to academic requirements

• Oversee process for student petitions, in collaboration with Director of Undergraduate Studies

• Maintain various publications for the department’s academic programs, including the departmental website, College Catalog, and Graduate Announcements (as relevant)

• Coordinate with other offices on wide range of matters related to student academic progress and student life, including SSD Dean of Students, College Dean of Students, Campus and Student Life, and others

• Proactively collaborate with other University offices to enhance student awareness on safety, disciplinary, and student life matters; handle accommodations, emergency-response, and other complex student life matters with competence and discretion

• Create overall department course schedule based on curricular needs of program, the Colonizations core sequence, and instructor areas of expertise and preferences

• Serve on department’s curriculum committee

• Collaborate with faculty to manage the department’s submission of a PhD certificate and program proposal. Work with RDI faculty and SSD Dean of Students Office to create policies and handbook for PhD certificate/degree program

• Create and implement system for reviewing and tracking crosslist requests and RDI major foundational course categories

• Prepare reports for faculty and Department leadership on individual student’s academic progress and aggregate data on department-wide trends in student affairs

• Support the Chair in the management of the departmental budget and accounts

• Research and analyze data to create reports, and may create other reports for grants and contracts

• Coordinate the hiring and appointments of research assistants and teaching assistants in the department

• Supervise one full-time Department Coordinator and potentially one part-time Student Employee

• Conduct weekly check-ins with supervisee(s)

• Creates training and programming for faculty and chair development

• Prepares and presents analyses,