Assistant Director for First Year and Family Experience (Student Programming Specialist), First Year and Family Experience

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Engages families via newsletter content, Fall and Spring Family Weekends, and the Parent Advisory Board.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of programs and initiatives offered through the Office of First Year Experience Programs (FYE).
• Develops, implements and evaluates first year programs for the Bloomington campus for freshmen, transfer students and their families.
• Facilitates the tracking of student participation by engaging with the campus platforms available.
• Collaborates with campus partners including academic departments, student services, and support areas.
• Selects, trains and supervises a team of students to conduct and support programming throughout the academic year.
• Recruits and orients staff and faculty volunteers.
• Creates program goals, presentations, supporting materials.
• Makes presentations on behalf of the university.
• Evaluates programs and benchmarks experiences with comparable universities.

General Responsibilities

• Develops and implements programs and initiatives geared at enhancing and reinforcing the academic engagement and experiential learning capacity of the student experience.
• Projects programming outcomes at the program, department/division, or campus level.
• Interfaces directly with students, attending student programming events and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student programming initiatives and objectives.
• Collaborates with staff in own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student programming goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs.
• Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student programs against projected outcomes; regularly prepares reports on impact to students and budget and may present to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
• Serves on committees and performs student programming research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
• Plans and coordinates communications for student programming initiatives to ensure student participation and inclusion.
• Makes presentations on behalf of the university.
• Makes process recommendations to manager for improved delivery of service.

Education and Experience

• Required: Bachelor's degree in education, social work, public affairs, counseling, business, or related field.
• PREFERRED: Master's degree in higher education, student affairs, or related field.
• Required: 2 years in student services, higher education, or related field.

Skills

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Develops and delivers effective presentations.
• Demonstrates customer service skills.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain confidential information.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Ability to build strong partnerships with students and other university departments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions.
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU.
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting.
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options.
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses.
• Generous paid time off plans.
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).