Associate Director

About the role

The Carolina Latinx Center (CLC) supports UNC-Chapel Hill’s Latinx communities and educates the campus and beyond through engagement, scholarship, cultural awareness, and public service. The Carolina Latinx Center provides students, faculty and staff the opportunity to explore Latinx cultures, histories and traditions and to use that understanding to work across racial and ethnic communities in North Carolina and the world.

Responsibilities

• Carry out the essential responsibilities of the Center such as: program administration, evaluation and assessment, academic, campus, and community engagement, and new and current partnership development.

Requirements

• Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity or comparable background in independent academic or instructional activities, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.
• Experience with university/community engagement, including learning, scholarship, and service.
• Experience managing programmatic budgets.
• Experience supervising volunteer and/or student workers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent conceptual, innovation, interpersonal, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills; a demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse populations.
• Excellent customer service and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently plan, manage and meet deadlines for multiple projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with university/community engagement, including learning, scholarship, and service.
• Experience managing programmatic budgets.
• Experience supervising volunteer and/or student workers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent conceptual, innovation, interpersonal, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills; a demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse populations.
• Excellent customer service and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently plan, manage and meet deadlines for multiple projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work with students, faculty, staff and administrators.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of people and organizations and keep leadership and staff well informed of projects progress and changes.
• Familiarity with web-based education technology and learning community technology.
• Experience using Microsoft Office products (i.e., Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver).
• Experience with social media programs (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube).
• Knowledge of current practices, trends and issues in education and the Latinx communities.
• Bilingualism (English/Spanish) is strongly preferred.