Career Center

The Division of Student Success is excited to be hiring for multiple assistant director roles within the Offices of Career Connections Center (CCC), Identity, Student Engagement, and Access (ISEA), Residential Life and Housing (RLH), Academic Support, and Student Leadership and Programming (SLP). These roles will work in partnership to uplift the mission of the division, providing holistic, intentional, and transformative experiences and support to students at Clark University.  

If you are interested in one or more of the open positions, please indicate which one(s) in your cover letter. Note that each position is hyperlinked to their individual job posting, which includes more detailed information.  

• Assistant Director for Internship & Experiential Learning Position - Career Connections Center (CCC) 
• Assistant Director for Residential Life and Housing (RLH) 
• Assistant Director for Student Leadership and Programming (SLP)  
• Assistant Director for Academic Support

Reporting to the Associate Director for Gender and Sexuality, the Assistant Director of Identity, Student Engagement, and Access (ISEA) for Programming and Belonging will work as part of a team to develop and execute curricular and co-curricular initiatives for students of color, first generation college students, and LGBTQIAA+ students as they work toward their academic, leadership, and career goals. ISEA develops and implements comprehensive programs of activities and support to promote the academic and social success of historically underrepresented communities at Clark University. Through mentoring, training, and community spaces, ISEA advocates, empowers students to find their voice, and provides holistic resources as they actualize their potential. As part of the engagement team within the Division of Student Success, ISEA partners and supports students' identity and leadership development, connections, and belonging on campus.

ISEA services include two pre-orientation programs, the ACE (Advancing Clark Excellence) Summer Institute and Connections@Clark, programmatic efforts for first generation, LGBTQIAA+, and BIPOC students including celebration months, awareness days and weeks, and identity-specific traditions on campus one-on-one student advising, and student success workshops and additional programming. ISEA offers staff led affinity groups such as Sisters in Stride (for woman-identified students of color), FOCUS (for man-identified students of color), TGD (Trans and Gender Diverse) for students who identify within the trans and gender diverse community, and QTSOC (Queer/Trans Students of Color) for students who want to explore the intersections among gender, sexual orientation, and racial identities, as well as student led affinity groups such as Latinos Out Loud (LOL) and the First Gen Affinity Space, Gen1. Through these programs and initiatives, ISEA seeks to develop socially conscious, empowered leaders who embody Clark's Mission to Challenge Convention and Change the World.

The Assistant Director Will:

• Lead Connections at Clark (an identity-conscious leadership pre-Orientation program for students of color), expanding the program and providing a touch-point community for students throughout their undergraduate career
• Facilitate and support one or more of the affinity groups (such as Sisters in Stride, FOCUS and Queer/Trans Students of Color) and  related identity-development initiatives
• Oversee, plan, and execute the Multicultural Graduation
• Work in partnership with the assistant director of programming and first-generation student support in the development and facilitation of workshops for the academic year and in the creation of programs and events as it relates to the heritage months
• Provide academic, professional and social support to students through 1:1 and small group advising
• Assist in the marketing and promotion of departmental, institutional, and community resources through various mediums, including website, e-newsletter, social media, etc.
• Connect and partner with MOSIAC student collective (identity-based student clubs at Clark) with regards to programming, needs, and heritage months
• Support the student programming board through student leader training and programming assistance
• Other duties as assigned

Clark University currently requires all employees and students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Exemptions will be made for medical or disability reasons or religious beliefs, and could be made, at the sole discretion of the University, for other well-documented reasons.

Requirements:

• A master's degree in education, student affairs, counseling or a related field, is preferred.
• Demonstrate ability to create and maintain inclusive, supportive programs & accessible resources for underrepresented students
• Knowledge of equity-centered identity-conscious support programs, and previous experience creating and facilitating programs that center the intersectional needs of students of color and first generation college students and LGBTQ population
• Experience facilitating conversations around power, privilege, oppression, and identity
• Demonstrate success multi-tasking and working effectively in a busy, multifaceted office environment
• Demonstrate ability to build effective, culturally aware, relationships with students, campus partners, faculty, and the community
• Ability to communicate effectively across cultures and within a team
• Creativity and resourcefulness in completing tasks and advancing the work of the office
• Adaptability and the ability to proactively solve problems quickly and efficiently, both as a team and autonomously
• Willingness to maintain a flexible schedule to accommodate pre-planned evening or weekend programs as needed
• Comfort with technology including MS Office, EMS Event Management System, Adobe Photoshop, and social media

Clark University embraces equal opportunity as a core value: we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, our employees and our community. This commitment applies to every aspect of education, services, and employment policies and practices at Clark. Our commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring and retention. All positions at Clark share in the responsibility for building a community that values diversity and the uniqueness of others by exhibiting integrity and respect in interacting with all members of the Clark community to create an atmosphere of fairness and belonging. We strongly encourage members from historically underrepresented communities, inclusive of all women, to apply.

Clark University offers a generous benefit package for full and, if applicable, part-time employees that include; paid time off, generous retirement plan, group health and dental insurance, life insurance, and tuition, along with use of many campus amenities. For a complete list of benefits for eligible employees visit here.

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About Clark University

Founded in 1887, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university committed toscholarship and inquiry that addresses social and human imperatives on a global basis. It is the place where Robert Goddard invented the modern rocket, where Sigmund Freud delivered his only lectures in the United States, and where current students stake their claim to the Clark motto, “Challenge Convention, Change Our World,” which is the rallying cry that inspires our community every day. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University educates its undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative effort. The University’s engages students in such areas as biology, chemistry, economics, geography, psychology, urban education, management, environmental science and policy, Holocaust and genocide studies, and international development and social change. Clark University’s pioneering model of higher education, LEEP (Liberation Education and Effective Practice) compels undergraduate students to thrive in authentic world and workplace settings, and prepares them for lives and careers of consequence.

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