Student Program Coordinator, Non-Traditional

Position Overview

The Non-Traditional Student Program Coordinator for Community Programs is responsible for strengthening the KU student experience for non-traditional students. The coordinator supervises student staff to implement a dynamic outreach and student engagement experience, engaging with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the community.

Job Description

• Implement a comprehensive student engagement curriculum that supports the mission of the SEC.
• Oversee direct outreach, development, and support for two or more categories of student organizations, their leaders, and their advisors.
• Oversee the KU student commuter lounge.
• Oversee the planning and development of biweekly student programs geared to connect and support Non-traditional students at KU.
• Manage program budgets associated with student engagement programs.
• Lead the development and implementation of a communication plan to connect with Non-Traditional students across the five KU campuses.
• Re-launch and advise the Non-Traditional Student Foundation, a registered student organization for KU non-traditional students.
• Participate in campus-wide involvement fairs and orientation sessions to provide an overview of resources and engagement opportunities for non-traditional students.
• Implement virtual outreach engagement opportunities to connect with non-traditional students.
• Create and implement Non-Traditional Student Newsletter.
• Launch Big 12 Non-Traditional Student Support Group, intended to connect with colleagues across Big 12 institutions who are supporting Non-traditional students or interested in learning about how to implement strategies on their respective campuses.
• Manage program budget associated with marketing materials for Non-Traditional students.
• Develop and implement workshops for registered student organizations including but not limited to these topics: student organization registration process, event planning, budget management, fundraising, and history/heritage months.
• Design ongoing training and communications strategies for registered student organization advisors. Ensure advisors receive regular training on risk management, conflict management, funding opportunities, and other Registered Student Organization Guidelines.
• Develop, monitor, and evaluate program learning outcomes. Ensure all registered student organization and community programming advances departmental, Student Affairs, and university learning outcomes; this includes the submission of monthly data points and identifying trends over time and projections for future needs.
• Serve as a student engagement support specialist; attending recruitment fairs, pipeline programming and other marketing events to further SEC’s outreach efforts.
• Host weekly office hours for student support meetings.
• Serve as a supervisor and provide leadership, direction, training and support to one graduate assistant and/or undergraduate student staff.
• Serve on the Student Engagement Center, Student Affairs, and university-wide committees as needed.

Position Requirements

• This position is required to work on-site.
• This position requires some evening and weekend work.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree in higher education, college student personnel, educational leadership, counseling, social work, psychology, or a related field.
  • One year of full-time experience working with college students through programs and services. Two years working as a Graduate Assistant will count towards one year of professional work.
  • Experience developing and implementing educational materials, programs, and workshops.
  • Applied knowledge of best practices and national trends impacting student involvement, engagement, and leadership development as demonstrated through work history.
  • Experience that required collaborative work with a wide range of students, staff, faculty, administrators, and other members of the community as evidenced by application materials.
  • Strong written communication skills as evidenced by application materials.
  • Experience creating marketing materials and using social media in a professional setting.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Two or more years of related experience in the following areas: student organizations and/or student engagement programs, knowledge of current issues in higher education, risk management policies and procedures and student development and other theoretical frameworks, and/or strategic development and project management.
  • Experience with hiring evaluating, staff development and training within a post-secondary education setting.
  • Experience with programming budgets, student organization funds, and/or basic accounting experience.
  • Experience adhering to, and knowledge of, policies and procedures of a large university as evidenced by application materials.
  • Experience developing, implementing, and assessing learning outcomes and strategic plans and priorities related to college student engagement.

Additional Candidate Instructions

• Cover letter describing how you meet the required and preferred qualifications.
• Resume
• List of three (3) professional references