Location : BereaJob Type: Full-TimeDivision: ProvostDepartment: CELTSOpening Date: 11/27/2024Closing Date: ContinuousFLSA: ExemptPlease note that references provided at the time of application for staff positions will not be contacted until the applicant has been offered the position. Description: Join our team as the Assistant Director of CELTS at Berea College!Are you an experienced higher education professional looking for your next challenge? Are you passionate about making a difference in higher education? Berea College is looking for an Assistant Director of CELTS (Center for Excellence in Learning through Service). The Assistant Director of CELTS will manage Berea College's student-led community service programs, including student staff and program volunteers during both the academic year and the summer. This person will have primary responsibility for designing and implementing recruitment, selection, training, and supervision for community service program student staff (approximately 70+ labor students) and volunteers (approximately 250+). As the Bonner Scholars Program Coordinator, this position will collaborate to structure and facilitate a four-year, tiered, learning through service experience for 60 (first-year through fourth-year) Bonner Scholars, including coordinating and implementing an intensive cohort-based learning through service experience for 15 First-Year Bonner Scholars each year. This person also coordinates CELTS sponsored campus-wide service events. Your Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise, advise, mentor, and train CELTS labor students (approximately 75 labor students), including program managers, student team members, and individuals.
- Manage Berea College's academic year and summer student-led community service programs, including being on-call after regular business hours when programming is taking place.
- Coordinate recruitment, selection, training, and supervision for a diverse CELTS student labor staff.
- Oversee leadership development training for labor students of CELTS, including on-going training for skills and leadership development, guided by CELTS student learning outcomes, and involving approximately 75 student staff, and over 250 college student volunteers.
- Coordinate and implement an intensive cohort-based learning through service experience for 15 First-Year Bonner Scholars each year, guided by the Bonner Scholars Program Rules and Bonner Common Commitments.
- Collaborate to structure and facilitate a tiered, continuous learning experience for 45 upper level (second-through fourth-year) Bonner Scholars, guided by the Bonner Scholars Program Rules and Bonner Common Commitments.
- Develop and sustain collaborative relationships and networks with external (off-campus) and internal (on-campus) community partners of CELTS, to further the mission of CELTS.
- Coordinate CELTS-sponsored campus-wide community service events.
- Assist CELTS Director with maintenance of records, assessment, and other tasks, as needed.
- Act as essential member of the CELTS professional staff team, which may include leading or assisting with CELTS-sponsored initiatives, projects or events, as well as other tasks, as needed.
- In support of Berea College's great commitments this position requires student supervision. The fourth great commitment is to promote learning and serving in community through the student labor program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. The Supervision would include scheduling, assigning and approving work performed. Developing students about common workplace acumen and giving them tangible work experience is an expected outcome. To learn more about the student labor program and requirements on this position see: Labor Program Goals
What You'll Bring: Education required to ensure success in this position:
- Master's Degree in Student Affairs, Counseling, Education, Human Services, or related field, required
Experience required to ensure success in this position:
- 2 - 5 years' experience in a diverse higher education or social service setting
Special skills, knowledge and abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse college students in a mentoring and supervisory relationship;
- Demonstrated ability to plan, manage and implement programs and events;
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with community-based and/or social service organizations and staff;
- Knowledge of human development, community service, social change, and leadership development;
- Demonstrated skills in training and organizing groups of undergraduate students;
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral;
- Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders, including students, program participants and program participants' guardians, community partners, faculty and on-campus colleagues, etc.;
- Strong presentation skills;
- Ability to work successfully in a team environment;
- Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple complex responsibilities;
- Strong organizational and time management skills;
- Ability to effectively manage confidential information across stakeholders;
- Demonstrated skills and orientation towards teamwork and collaboration;
- Demonstrated skills in proactively forming and sustaining cooperative networks;
- Demonstrated skills in managing and making appropriate referrals in response to crisis and conflict situations;
- Familiarity with programs of the Bonner Foundation, preferred;
- Computer proficiency (full Microsoft office suite)
License, certification, or registration necessary:
- Valid Driver's License
- Required background check
Physical requirements:
- Sufficient mobility to work, meet, and travel with students, faculty, and staff in various locations.
- Some extended time periods of sitting with computer use.
- Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds.
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 20 lbs.
- Ability to travel independently.
Environmental conditions:
- Ability to work in high-energy, dynamic, professional office environment with frequent interruptions and noise due to large number of labor students and frequent visitors, including students, staff, faculty, and community members
- Some travel required
- Some evenings, overnight trips, and weekends required
Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment:
- Ability and willingness to drive Berea College Motor Pool cars/vans
- Standard office equipment
Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea's students excel in the College's supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application! Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.Our Benefits:Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement. Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.To learn more details, visit our benefits page at Our Unique Culture:Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College's inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at BereaLabor Supervision: In support of Berea College's great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link