Job no: 512227
Work type: Management (MPP)
Location: San José
Categories: MPP, Administrative, At-Will, Full Time

Job Summary

The Division of Student Affairs at San Jose State University is taking a curricular approach to the delivery of co-curricular programs and services. This approach will be grounded in a defined Student Affairs Curriculum, an embedded commitment to racial justice and equity, and a continuous assessment of educational and operational effectiveness. This requires a new role in the Division that will ensure that the fundamental work of Student Affairs is executed to address learning and engagement principles, and will be done in new ways to meet the dynamic and diverse needs of all demographics of students. This role is designed to center equity and racial justice within the co-curriculum and the assessment of the co-curriculum. The Director of Co-Curricular Learning, Educational Equity and Assessment will bring a new intentionality to the content of Student Affairs work, the efficacy of engagement strategies, and ensuring that historically underrepresented students and experiences are made core subjects of programs, services, and policies.

To fulfill the promise to the students and communities we serve alongside, SJSU will be an organization that actively promotes diversity, inclusivity, and equity, ensuring that everyone in our community experiences a deep sense of belonging. To actualize this vision and contribute to combating systemic oppression within and across our communities, SJSU must champion and consistently apply an equity lens to our external and internal work, and endeavor to build and nurture a diverse, inclusive, equitable environment that effectively prepares and engages members of our community in their pursuit of expanding opportunity and striving for educational equity for the students we serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a divisional programming and frameworks based on concepts from Bensimon’s Equity Scorecard Framework
• Establish division-wide assessment strategy based on learning outcomes, operational effectiveness, and compliance with regional and specialized accreditation standards
• Converge, report, share, and analyze data assessment data
• Train departments on assessment processes and tools
• Lead and manage the Student Affairs Curriculum guiding requisite annual programming and services
• Develop and stewardship of a racial justice and equity template for all Division programs and services
• Develop co-curricular design and delivery standards
• Manage the development, implementation and continuous evolution of Student Affairs education and training programs
• Work to eliminate institutional and structural racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression, including sexism, heterosexism, classism, and ableism
• Train staff on equity lens and skills

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills, humor, and compassion
• Outstanding administrative skills, including the ability to produce, track and manage multiple deliverables with overlapping deadlines in a high-performing environment
• Educational assessment and organizational assessment design and implementation: quantitative and qualitative
• Curriculum development and implementation
• Organization change management skills
• Project management and leadership skills
• Vendor relationship and contract management
• Research skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Demonstrated ability to develop collaborative, productive and respectful relationships with leaders and other institutions and groups, including but not limited to communities of color, immigrant and refugee communities, business, and philanthropy
• Experience developing and managing programs to address institutional and structural racism

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Three years of work experience with some combination of these areas: assessment, co-curricular development, and racial justice

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree
• 5 years of experience in a higher education or related setting and leading programs that build co-curricular programming
• Bilingual language skills
• Experience in developing, implementing, and leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs, with demonstrable outcomes
• Demonstrated experience development assessment programs and/or providing training to others on the topic of assessment
• Published work or conference presentations on the topics of racial justice, assessment and/or co-curricular development

Compensation

Classification: Administrator II
Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience

San José State University offers employees a comprehensive benefits package typically worth 30-35% of your base salary. For more information on programs available, please see the Employee Benefits Summary.

Application Procedure

Click Apply Now to complete the SJSU Online Employment Application and attach the following documents:

• Resume
• Letter of Interest

All applicants must apply within the specified application period: March 25, 2022 through April 11, 2022. This position is open until filled; however, applications received after screening has begun will be considered at the discretion of the university.

Contact Information

University Personnel
jobs@sjsu.edu
408-924-2252

CSU Vaccination Policy

The CSU requires faculty, staff, and students who are accessing campus facilities to be immunized against COVID-19 or declare a medical or religious exemption from doing so. Any candidates advanced in a currently open search process should be prepared to comply with this requirement as a condition of employment. The system wide policy can be found at https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/9779821/latest/ and questions may be sent to jobs@sjsu.edu.

Additional Information

Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) is required for employment. SJSU will issue a contingent offer of employment to the selected candidate, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was offered the position on a contingent basis.

The standard background check includes: criminal check, employment and education verification. Depending on the position, a motor vehicle and/or credit check may be required. All background checks are conducted through the university's third party vendor, Accurate Background. Some positions may also require fingerprinting. SJSU will pay all costs associated with this procedure. Evidence of required degree(s) or certification(s) will be required at time of hire.

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Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and Campus Housing Fire Safety Notification:

Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the Annual Security Report (ASR) is also now available for viewing at https://www.sjsu.edu/clery/docs/SJSU-Annual-Security-Report.pdf. The ASR contains the current security and safety-related policy statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, crime prevention and Sexual Assault prevention information, and information about drug and alcohol prevention programming. The ASR also contains statistics of Clery crimes for San José State University locations for the three most recent calendar years. A paper copy of the ASR is available upon request by contacting the Office of the Clery Director by phone at 408-924-1501 or by email at clerycompliance@sjsu.edu.

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Equal Employment Statement

San José State University (SJSU) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, religion or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, transgender, or protected veteran status consistent with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applies to all SJSU students, faculty and staff programs and activities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and certain other federal and state laws, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in all education programs and activities operated by the university (both on and off campus).

Advertised: March 25, 2022 (9:00 AM) Pacific Daylight Time
Applications close: Open until filled