Overview
Director of Student Equity and Community Development Jobs in Sackville, Canada at Mount Allison University
Position Description
This is an exciting new position in Mount Allison Student Affairs, with a focus on student community education and development around equity, mutual respect and support, conflict resolution, and preventive and restorative student conduct management. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape sector‑leading approaches, grounded in educational values, with a focus on reducing systemic and personal barriers to student success.
The position will report to the Vice President Student Affairs and will provide oversight, championship and strategic direction for equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and anti‑racism work in the portfolio and with students. This will include coordinating campus‑wide education in areas focusing on equity and inclusion, antiracism, decolonization, bystander intervention, dis/ability support, conflict and alternative dispute resolution, sexual violence prevention, hazing prevention, and other programs to raise campus capacity for inclusion and student support.
The position will also oversee full‑time and part‑time positions providing specific student support for equity‑deserving student populations, including multi-faith and Indigenous, and developing and maintaining a roster of contract equity advisors to meet equity‑deserving students’ needs. Taking an equity‑focused, preventive and restorative lens to student behaviour, the position will also oversee student conduct and sexualized violence support and response.
This position is an opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment with students, student groups, faculty and staff, to develop highly innovative and supportive practices for student success.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Vice‑President, Student Affairs, the student affairs team, faculty, staff and students to enhance the equity of student life and the student experience for equity‑deserving student populations.
- Work with the Vice‑President, Student Affairs, the student affairs team, faculty, staff and students to develop community capacity to approach student conduct issues in a preventive and reparative manner, using an equity and educational lens.
- Provide effective leadership to the assigned Student Affairs staff in the areas of equity, diversity & inclusion, Indigenous student support, spiritual care, equity advisors, conduct and community development, and sexualized violence prevention & response. Provide supportive supervision and mentoring to employees, including goal‑setting, work evaluation, teamwork, and fostering innovation.
- Develop and oversee a roster of full‑time or part‑time contract equity advisors for Black, Indigenous, 2
SLGBTQIA+, racialized, religious/spiritual, students with disabilities and intersectional student support.
- Collaborate with academic and student support units on equity‑deserving student retention strategies and initiatives, and to develop capacity to prevent and address structural and individual barriers to success.
- Working with equity advisors, student leaders and student staff, and university community partners, develop and implement community‑wide education programs focusing on equity, antiracism, decolonization, bystander intervention, accessibility, conflict and hazing prevention, alternative dispute resolution, and other programs to increase community capacity, inclusion, and conduct prevention.
- With staff and equity advisors, develop and oversee a student staff team to provide peer support, peer education, equity programming, bystander intervention, hazing prevention, and conflict mediation assistance.
- Work with equity‑related student groups to support activities and skills development, as well as assist in identifying and addressing equity‑based concerns and challenges.
- Oversee complaints and resolution processes related to student conduct (non‑academic conduct, residence life, antiracism, athletics), with a preventive, educational and restorative/reparative lens and approach.
- Oversee formal processes for cases that cannot be resolved using ADR/restorative approaches, including timely, equitable and fair process management, determining outcomes, doing necessary follow‑up,…
Title: Director of Student Equity and Community Development
Company: Mount Allison University
Location: Sackville, Canada
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