Coordinator, Male Success Initiative (SSP IV)

Job Duties

• Lead the conceptualization, planning, coordination, and continuous enhancement of identity-based and equity-centered student success initiatives.
• Develop, coordinate, and maintain a diverse set of programs and services tailored to address student engagement, retention, and holistic development.
• Cook up and administer programs, events, and projects.
• Facilitate student involvement in campus life.
• Plan and organize work requirements and tasks within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Determine work priorities and select desired methodology from alternative approaches.
• Handle unusual situations without advice or instruction, solving problems, and making decisions that impact other staff and departments.
• Perform major program analysis responsibilities for an entire division.
• Collaborate with cross-divisional partners to align services with campus-wide equity goals and system level student success initiatives.
• Provide information, guidance, and advocacy to support students’ academic progress, well-being, and sense of belonging.
• Aid students in problem-solving and decision-making and help them navigate institutional processes and barriers.
• Support students experiencing personal, academic, or systemic challenges.
• Advocate for individual and group student needs with university administrators, faculty, and staff.
• Engage in high-level problem-solving with students in complex or sensitive group situations.
• Serve as a knowledgeable resource and case manager for high-need and underrepresented students.
• Develop and lead comprehensive evaluation frameworks to assess program quality and student outcomes.
• Conduct studies and surveys and prepare reports with recommendations based on results.
• Review existing and proposed policies, practices, and organizational structure and propose revisions as needed.
• Provide guidance for major installations of new procedures or systems.
• Make recommendations involving broad areas of policy formulation and administrative action.
• Develop thorough and extensive written materials for student learning and staff training.
• Prepare internal reports, annual assessments, and institutional effectiveness documentation.
• Deliver peer educator and student assistant training.
• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
• Provide oversight for daily operations, including service delivery, scheduling, and logistics.
• Maintain secure records of student services, outcomes, and engagement.
• Support strategic planning and reporting in collaboration with divisional leadership.
• Contribute to accreditation and grant reporting efforts.
• Ensure compliance with university and CSU policies.
• May be required to obtain additional training and/or certification as part of professional development, based on department and/or campus needs, to stay current with industry standards.
• At the direction of appropriate administrator, may provide support to other areas as needed.

Qualifications

• Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university in a related field plus upper division or graduate course work in counseling techniques, interviewing and conflict resolution where such are job related.
• Four (4) years of progressively responsible professional student services work experience which includes experience in advising students individually and in groups, and in analysis and resolution of complex student services problems.
• A master’s degree in Counseling, Clinical Psychology, Social Work or a job-related field may be substituted for one year of professional experience.
• A doctorate degree and the appropriate internship or clinical training in counseling, guidance or a job-related field may be substituted for two years of the required professional experience for positions with a major responsibility for professional, personal or career counseling.