Associate Director, Women's Center

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Plan deliver and evaluate programs services and events that address the needs of the WFU campus community that contributes to student development.
• Manage communications and marketing strategy for Center programming and initiatives (i.e. social media website etc.)
• Manages the development and implementation of educational programs including advising and overseeing the centers peer education initiatives.
• Lead major Womens Center initiatives including Deacon Doulas (a volunteer doula program in collaboration with WFU School of Medicine) and the Menstrual Access Project ensuring that menstrual product kiosks across campus remain stocked.
• Develop advise and manage peer education programs.
• Collaborate with students staff and faculty to plan organize promote supervise and evaluate Womens Center programs events and activities to meet student needs.
• Support the departmental mission and vision.
• Manage and track programming budgets for major initiatives to support fiscal planning. Support the Program Coordinator with the student employment budget.
• Contribute to the drafting and writing of protocols procedures training manuals and handbooks that ensure awareness of the university and office rules regulations and policies.
• Identifies and manages outreach and collaboration opportunities for the center.
• Responds to student-identified needs with creative problem solving.
• Lead assessment for individual programs and support the centers assessment strategies.
• Collect data and assess the impact of programs and services to demonstrate the centers value and guide future planning.
• Collaborate effectively to identify data-informed programmatic interventions in response to community needs.

Other Functions:

• Actively participates in campus-wide initiatives by serving on various committees such as search and planning committees. Takes on other related responsibilities as needed to support the department and university.

Required Education Knowledge Skills Abilities:

• Bachelors degree in a related field.
• Three years or more of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to interact with multiple stakeholders including students faculty staff parents alumni and community members.
• Ability to handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.
• Ability to deliver and receive feedback effectively.
• Ability to adapt to changing work environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks with efficiency and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate build strong relationships and align project work with the organizations larger mission.
• Demonstrated ability to assess a variety of student needs and connect students to relevant campus resources.
• Ability to work beyond the standard workday including nights and weekends for programs and special events.

Preferred Education Knowledge Skills Abilities:

• A Masters degree in womens gender and sexuality studies social work student affairs counseling or a related field
• Experience working in a Womens Center.
• Demonstrated knowledge of delivering programming education and services and support to all students surrounding sexuality and gender issues or similar programming.
• Demonstrated programming experience and programmatic budget management.
• Proven success managing an organizations communications.

Accountabilities:

• Monitors spending for the programming and Center resource budgets.
• Supervision of student employees.
• Supervision of the Womens Center Program Coordinator.

Physical Requirements:

• Occasionally ascending or descending stairs
• Occasionally remaining in a stationary position standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Occasionally moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
• Occasionally adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds in all directions.
• Constantly communicating with others to exchange information.
• Occasionally repeating motions that may include the wrists hands and/or fingers.

Environmental Conditions:

• Occasional outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind.
• Occasional noisy environments.

Additional Job Description

Time Type Requirement

Note to Applicant:

This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.

In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified candidates to apply without regard to race color religion national origin sex age sexual orientation gender identity and expression genetic information disability and military or veteran status.

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