Associate Director, The Woodrick Center for Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs

The Associate Director for the Woodrick Center for Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs will provide high-profile, multi-layered, and time-sensitive work on behalf of Grand Rapids Community College. This position is charged with advocating and championing a student-centered, inclusive approach for diversified populations on campus. The role will assist in increasing the access, retention, and success of historically underrepresented students, focusing their engagement in academic initiatives and co-curricular activities that facilitate student success. This position will help lead and facilitate training and professional development projects that support self-exploration and critical dialogue and build institutional cultural competency. This role will help support the assessment of the center's initiatives and manage a comprehensive budget and student engagement. The person in this role must thrive in an environment dedicated to advancing equity through education, training and development, data-informed services, collaboration, flexibility, and an unwavering commitment to social justice. This type of work involves acute attention to detail, logistics management, public speaking, and engagement with a wide range of campus and community stakeholders.

Requisition ID: 667
Employee Group: Meet & Confer
Schedule: 40 hours/52 weeks
Compensation: AM2, $63, 288
Benefits: Full-time
Reports to: Director of The Woodrick Center
Posting Opens: 12/05/2024
Posting Closes: Open until filled, candidate review will begin on 01/06/2025.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Student Outreach and Engagement

• Provide personal growth and professional development workshops that move students toward academic goals.
• Create student engagement initiatives for historically under-represented or BIPOC populations that support ALAS, Brother 2 Brother, and NIA student engagement groups
• Serve as outreach and liaison between Woodrick Center and GRCC’s student affinity organizations.
• Develop culturally affirming training opportunities that situate students' racial, ethnic, and gender identities as assets.
• Coordinate unit involvement with student outreach and engagement events, including Open Houses, Orientation, and Bridges to College-Raider Ready, and similar events sponsored by Academic and Student Affairs (ASA).
• Participate in committee service related to assessment, enrollment management, retention, orientation, and student support services. Contribute to meetings, advocate for students, and reliably convey critical points from meetings to the Woodrick Center team.

Training and Development

• Develop curriculum and lead equity training and professional development sessions for GRCC faculty, staff, and students in collaboration with areas across GRCC to support student access, retention, and success.
• Provide equity-centered workshop sessions for Learning Day, Faculty Learning Day, Summer Teaching Institute, Open House, Orientation and other external opportunities.
• Develop curriculum and lead equity training sessions for external partners in non-profit and corporate settings through the Woodrick Center.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of being both a college employee and a change agent who appropriately challenges the structures, processes, policies, and culture of the institution to bring about meaningful change to promote social justice and equity.
• Develop curriculum and facilitate training sessions that demonstrate awareness and understanding of institutional and structural bias and their impact on historically excluded student, faculty, and staff communities, in collaboration with areas across GRCC to support student access, retention, and success.
• Demonstrate the ability to keep abreast of current research on the experiences of historically excluded student, faculty, and staff communities in higher education.
• Demonstrate acute awareness and understanding of institutional and structural biases and their impact on historically excluded students, faculty, and staff.
• Work effectively with people of multiple identities and positionalities, including gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability, socioeconomic status, worldview, and other significant aspects of identity.
• Provide effective advocacy for historically excluded communities (verbal