Assistant Director, Summer Collegiate Experience

Job Summary:

The Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) is a high-impact six-week residential summer program for incoming first-year students. The program is designed to assist with the adjustment to the university by providing a spectrum of experiences including orientation, academic instruction, academic mentoring, and community building. Students live together in a UW residence hall and complete six-degree credits, choosing from a variety of courses within the College of Letters & Science. The Assistant Director provides leadership, organization, coordination, and student support for SCE. This position assists with the planning and organization of SCE courses and events and coordinates communication with prospective students, program participants, partner programs, faculty, and the SCE residential staff. The SCE Assistant Director also supervises a team of 10-12 undergraduate and graduate HouseFellows, student staff who live with student participants in the residence hall during the summer program. The candidate should have strong problem-solving skills and be prepared to help these student staff members and program participants with adjustment to living on their own.

SCE is housed within the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) in the College of Letters & Science. CAE is home to several initiatives that support student success in the College of Letters and Science (L&S), including the Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE); the L&S STEM Scholars Initiative, and the CAE Cohort program. These programs work together to offer an enriching, inclusive community for L&S students who are from low-income or rural backgrounds, or the first in their family to attend college. CAE provides a variety of engagement opportunities to students, including holistic academic advising, peer and academic mentoring, paid research opportunities, health and wellness events, social events, graduate school and career preparation, and connection with learning communities to facilitate learning and collaboration. The Assistant Director of SCE also works closely with other staff to promote the overall mission and objectives of CAE.

Responsibilities:

Leads the development, implementation, and ongoing operations of one or more academic programs to ensure effectiveness in meeting strategic, departmental, and student development goals. May manage the program budget and outreach activities and supervise program staff. Strives to create a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive work environment.

• 20% Leads the development and implementation of academic program initiatives
• 10% Serves as the liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups to identify and maintain academic program-related partnerships
• 5% Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and academic program objectives
• 10% Evaluates existing academic program strategy and makes recommendations to unit leadership for program enhancement
• 5% May manage the unit budget and approve unit expenditures
• 5% Assists stakeholders with preparing and/or maintaining documentation, financial management, and/or reporting requirements related to sponsored grants, contracts, or agreements
• 10% Provides full service advising resources and services, provides information about educational options and academic requirements, and communicates directly with students regarding all aspects of the advising process
• 15% Manages degree programs and/or certificates, high impact practice programming and events, and curriculum development and implementation
• 20% Coordinate and provide direction and support to activities, events and initiatives that align
  with and contribute to the CAE mission

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Required
Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications:

Two years of professional experience in higher education student services required. Strong administrative and organizational skills, effective interpersonal and collaboration skills, strong leadership and