| Job Summary/Basic Function | The Assistant Director of the Popel Shaw Center is responsible for management, implementation, and assessment of the Dickinson College A.C.E. Peer Mentoring Program. They will recruit, hire, train, and supervise 20-30 peer mentors. The Assistant Director will assist the Director with pre-orientation programming as well as the implementation of initiatives to support students from underrepresented groups.
Essential Functions:
- Primary oversight of the A.C.E. Peer Mentor Program, which includes, but is not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, and supervising student Program Coordinators; identifying and inviting participation by first-year students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to join the A.C.E. Peer Mentor program, including collaborating with the Registrar’s Office to identify student mentees. Outreach includes social media postings, email blasts, participation in campus-wide club fairs, orientations, and other events hosted by the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity.
- Collaborate with A.C.E. Peer Mentor Program Coordinators and Popel Shaw Center Director to design, schedule, and deliver orientation programming for 35 new A.C.E. Peer Mentors during the first week of the Fall semester of each academic year. Orientation must include payroll procedures for all mentors, monthly meeting schedules, special event hosting and attendance requirements, and skill and team-building exercises.
- Collaborate with Program Coordinators, Executive Board and Dickinson College resource offices to deliver regularly scheduled information and engagement workshops for A.C.E. Peer Mentors and mentees, but with an invitation to all students to attend. Speakers outside the Dickinson community and alumni may be invited as well. Outreach to Dickinson speakers and/or other outside speakers, e.g. professionals, Dickinson alumni is required. Space reservations, workshop topics, and food, depending on the time of day, and other logistical requirements must be completed in collaboration with the Director.
- Design, implement and/or assist the Director with social and enrichment programs for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. Programming should be aimed at building community and belonging, and improving student success. Budgets for each event must be approved by the Director. Assist the Director with ensuring logistics are in place for each event.
- Work collaboratively with campus partners (e.g., Academic Success team, Executive Director of Student Engagement, Retention and Persistence, Care Team, and Academic Advisors…) to ensure that admitted students have equal access to all requisite tools to flourish. Understand and utilize best practices to enhance student belonging, retention, and academic success among diverse undergraduate students.
- Assist the Director with ongoing assessment and review of the program. This includes, but is not limited to, tracking and regularly reporting on key indicators of student success and the impact of the mentoring program. Make reports available for internal audiences (e.g., the Director, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, or Admissions Office) and external audiences (e.g., prospective students, alumni, foundations and corporate sponsors).
- Assist Director with networking among community-based organizations, businesses, professional associations for relationship-building and future professional and leadership development experiences for A.C.E. Peer Mentors and mentees.
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| Preferred Qualifications | Required:
Bachelor’s Degree – Liberal Arts, sociology, psychology, education, business, STEM or related field
Preferred:
Master’s Degree – Higher Education Administration, Business, Counseling, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field of study
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