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Form of workLocation: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 268281
About Us
Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the well-being of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Department Information
The units comprising the new division will share a mission of actively engaging students through a wide array of strategies, arts, activities, intercultural dialogue, social events, student organizations and others. The unifying goal is to promote and sustain a sense of belonging and community for all students across all identities, in particular those students who come from historically marginalized or under served communities.
This position will serve as a critical leader who is committed to fostering an authentically welcoming campus climate and will work to advance the Institute's educational mission of inclusive excellence by actively developing and delivering a comprehensive array of Institute-wide intercultural programs and initiatives that aim to promote parity in educational attainment at Georgia Tech.
This position will interact on a regular basis with: faculty, staff and students. This position typically will advise and counsel: staff, faculty and students. This position will supervise: Assigned Staff
Job Duty 1
Work collaboratively with all colleges, divisions, and departments, co-curricular offerings hosted will contribute to Georgia Tech's academic mission by (1) enhancing holistic success for all students, with the goal of promoting parity in access, retention and graduation outcomes, including for students from historically marginalized and/or undeserved communities; and (2) build all students' (undergraduate and graduate) knowledge, beliefs and skills in order to prepare them to be effective contributors to and leaders of the 21st century global workforce.
Job Duty 2
Provide vision, direction, oversight, encouragement, and accountability for the office of Intercultural Student Programs; responsibly manage and steward all fiscal and other resources; and provide effective supervision, professional development, and evaluation for the professional team.
Job Duty 3
Identify, seek, and secure grant funding, corporate partnerships, and other opportunities to leverage campus resources most efficiently and strategically and further propel intercultural initiatives and efforts.
Job Duty 4
In partnership with colleges, departments, and divisions across the Institute, identify and implement improvements to policies, practices, procedures, and programs with the goal of eliminating barriers to educational access and/or success for students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Job Duty 5
Oversee Hispanic Initiatives (which is led and coordinated by an Associate Director) and support the establishment and implementation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Initiatives (to be led and coordinated by an Assistant Director); support the development and/or implementation of similar identity-based cohort- or community-based programs designed to promote belonging, meaningful connection, and students' academic success at Georgia Tech.
Job Duty 6
In collaboration with constituents, develop and deliver a robust portfolio of educational initiatives, programs and services that advance the personal, sociocultural, and intellectual development of all student populations; successfully implement a dynamic range of student learning opportunities that develop skills required for inter- and cross-cultural fluency within and across difference; and foster lifelong capacities for living, working, and leading in an increasingly diverse, complex, ever-evolving, and global society.
Job Duty 7
Design, administer, evaluate, and continually improve tailored/targeted activities, events, programming, services - including case management, coaching, mentoring, and advising - that support belonging, connection, and holistic success of historically marginalized and/or underserved and/or underrepresented students, as well as identity-based affinity groups; facilitate fundraising for and advocate for scholarship and other financial aid opportunities.
Job Duty 8
As needed, assist staff advisors for student clubs, groups, and registered student organizations whose purpose aligns with the mission of the department; and provide guidance to students on establishing new organizations, recruiting, and retaining members, program planning, and leadership development.
Job Duty 9
Develop and sustain partnerships and coalitions with a wide range of Georgia Tech students to analyze and better understand the impact of the intersection of identities, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, as well as seek to eliminate educational disparities accordingly; facilitate student belonging and mattering, as well as create opportunities for meaningful connections between students, as well as between students and alumni, faculty, staff, and other members of the extended Georgia Tech community.
Job Duty 10
Perform other job-related duties as assigned
Educational Requirements
Master's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Required Experience
Seven or more years of job-related experience
RELATED SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:
- Proven record and experience specific to working with students from a wide variety of multicultural identifies throughout the world. Demonstrate experience of successful student engagement with identity-based programming and education about social justice topics.
- Demonstrated understanding and application of student development theory with an emphasis on its relativity to marginalized student populations and the histories of such groups. Demonstrated expertise in and application of intercultural education frameworks/pedagogy, Experience implementing theory into practice through the delivery of programs, services, and advising
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.
Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.
All members of the USG community must adhere to the USG Statement of Core Values, which consists of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values shape and fundamentally support our University¿s work. Additionally, all faculty, staff, and administrators must also be aware of and comply with the Board of Regents and Georgia Institute of Technology's policies on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. More information on these policies can be found here: Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).
Other InformationSalary range: $108,010.00 - $127,000.00
Location: Atlanta, GA
Job grade: A12
This is a supervisory position.
This position has financial responsibilities.
No, this position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel.
This position does not require security clearance.
Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening
