Coordinator 2, Student Leadership Development

Job Summary

The Coordinator for Student Leadership Development is responsible for two Thayne Center programs that introduce and enhance student leadership skills.

Reporting to the Assistant Director for Student Leadership, this role advises the Salt Lake Community College Student Association (SLCCSA) Equality & Representation board and coordinates biannual Student Leadership Conferences.

While focused on students, this role supports numerous stakeholders including Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) staff, faculty, and community-based organizations.

The long-term success of this role is measured by student advocacy initiatives, safe and fulfilling student experiences, peer leader retention and graduation, and fulfillment of student learning outcomes.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties SLCC Student Association (SLCCSA) Advising

• Advise the SLCCSA Vice President for Equality & Representation Board (E&R) and its respective board members. Hold weekly 1 : 1s with the Vice President for E&R, build board meeting agendas, attend weekly board meetings, provide academic support to the Vice President and board members, and familiarize yourself with campus policies and programs.
• Assist the SLCCSA Vice President for E&D in identifying and progressing new and on-going initiatives to work on each year.

Align practices with the SLCCSA vision statement. Document initiatives appropriately.

• Lead the board in various tactics to gather input, raise awareness, and advocate for intentional change to improve SLCC’s co-curricular experience.
• Work closely with Multicultural Student Council Advisors to find opportunities for collaboration on initiatives and / or social change.
• Manage the E&R board as a cohort and support students in their academic progress which includes checking grades and developing academic improvement plans.

Student Leadership Conferences

• Coordinate biannual Student Leadership Conference for student leaders across the institution.
• Manage conference logistics including marketing, travel details, lodging, contracts, activities.
• Plan meaningful sessions, presentations, activities, and reflections based on established programmatic learning objectives.
• Collect, synthesize, and share student and participant learning outcome, engagement, and attendance data.
• Outreach to key partners at SLCC Office for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (ODMA), Orientation and Student Success, TRIO and PACE programs, Academic Advising, Institutional Equity, Inclusion and Transformation, Admissions, Career Services, and Athletics).

Recruit student leaders from each department to participate in student leadership retreats.

Liaise with vendors and community partners needed to execute contracts.

Thayne Center Leadership Series

• Collaborate with a team to plan and host student leadership development workshops for the general student body.
• Collaborate with a team to build relevant training through workshops directly tied to learning outcomes.
• Identify relevant campus sites and times to host workshops to maximize the number of SLCC students who can participate.
• Build learning outcomes for each workshop that are based in institutional and Thayne Center learning outcomes.
• Lead development and implementation of various marketing strategies to recruit student attendees.
• Identify facilitators for each workshop. Co-facilitate workshops if appropriate.
• Ensure that each workshop is set up appropriately for each facilitator.
• Collect, synthesize, and share student and participant learning outcome, engagement, and attendance data.
• Conduct learning-outcome based assessment of each workshop and use data to rework future workshops and trainings.

Budget Management

• Ethically and thoroughly oversee budgets connected to SLCCSA Equality & Representation board, Student Leadership Conferences, and Leadership Series.
• Uphold responsibilities outlined in the cardholder agreement and purchasing card training.
• Submit and manage vendor contracts in a timely manner.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties Continued Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as education, social sciences, humanities, communications, community organization, or related field.
• Two (2) years of direct, full-time, paid experience in related area such as student activities, student leadership, student club advising, community engagement, community organizing, event planning, and / or volunteer management.
• Applicant must have scheduling flexibility to accommodate attendance at occasional early mornings, late evenings and weekend program, retreats and conferences.
• May occasionally be required to work evenings and / or weekends as determined by student programming needs.
• Trade off 2 : 1 in experience / education requirement.
• Part time experience may be considered on a prorated basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field, such as higher education administration, cultural and social sciences, humanities, or related field.
• Direct experience coordinating educational programs.
• Bilingual or multi-lingual.
• Strong knowledge of and proven experience withStudent leadership development theory and practices, working with college students event planning and et.

Advising strategies in context of student clubs, organizations, and student leadership.Assessment designing, implementing and measuring learning outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Ability to recruit, hire, train, and supervise students for a peer leader role. Create and implement an agreement of peer leader responsibilities.

Document and address performance issues. Maintain accurate rosters and contact information for engaged students.

• Knowledge of effective marketing and recruiting strategies. Promoting programming and resources to ensure programmatic visibility among student across the institution.
• Knowledge of student leadership development theories and practices.
• Proven skills in program coordination, including program management, needs assessment, strategic planning, procedure development, evaluation, critical thinking, programmatic development, participant learning outcomes, and budgeting.
• Ability to create agendas and incorporate multiple sources of information to facilitate meetings. Plan and lead trainings and developmental conversations.
• Ability to coordinate, implement, and lead large scale events for 20 200 participants with a high degree of refinement and detail.

Skilled in volunteer communication and management.

• Works successfully whether independent or collaboratively. Sets and meets deadlines individually and with a team. Supervisor may be remote or at a different campus location.
• Excellent written communication, including email and writing external facing documents.
• Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills with a demonstrated ability for public speaking. Tailoring communication to different constituents including students, staff, faculty, and community partners.
• Strong technology skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite programs (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Zoom, and other telecommunication platforms.

Creation of surveys, forms, and use of an online engagement platform.

• Tracking expenses and following a budget.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly.
• Strong decision-making, problem solving, and collaborative partnership skills.
• Strong organization skills, ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Ability to strategically build relationships and connect with campus partners.
• As assigned, support office coverage at multiple SLCC sites and campuses.
• Knowledge of student club and organization advising skills. Familiarity with best practices in student government and advocacy.
• Knowledge of vendor contracting processes and ability to create and review contracts.
• Ability to arrange safe student travel while following college travel policies .
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

Non-Essential Responsibilities and Duties Ability to complete Utah state defensive driving training and drive authorized vehicles.