Position Number: S-3225 Type of Recruitment: External
Position Summary: The Assistant Director works directly under the supervision of the Associate Director/Leadership Institute in the creation and implementation of student leadership programs. The Assistant Director/Leadership Institute works closely with the Associate Director to recruit, select, and train staff for Leadership Safari and deliver a curriculum for new CMU freshmen and transfer students. The Assistant Director plays a lead role in the delivery of Central Michigan University's student leadership programs, including the LeaderShape Institute, the Connections Leadership Conference, and on-demand leadership trainings.
Required Qualifications: Bachelors degree. One year of experience working directly with college students. Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Knowledge of the personal and social aspects faced by college students of all backgrounds. Demonstrated organizational skills, including ability to plan, establish priorities and handle multiple tasks and projects. Flexibility in schedule and work hours that allow for student access during peak cycles. Experience using a computer, online systems, web browser, word processing and database programs. Must have a valid drivers license. Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications: Masters degree in student personnel services, higher education, leadership, or a related field. One year of direct student leadership program experience. Experience working with transfer students and non-traditional student populations. Demonstrated experience planning, organizing, and implementing campus visitation events.
Duties & Responsibilities: Evaluates and maintains existing leadership programs, including the selection and training of student program coordinators and volunteer facilitators. Informs the budgeting process, and responsibly manages funds allocated to student leadership programs. Supervises up to two (2) graduate assistants and twenty-five (25) undergraduate employee program coordinators; manages the performance review process that aligns with learning outcomes specified by the university-wide leadership model. Under the direction of the Associate Director/Leadership Institute, assists with the development of curriculum for Leadership Safari program; coordinates logistics for more than 1,000 participants and staff; and conducts program assessment related to Safari participants achievement of stated learning outcomes. Assists with the selection of speakers and curriculum design for Leadership Safari. Develops and delivers new modules and programs in accordance with the university-wide model of student leadership development. Develops and maintains a not-for-credit facilitator training course and supporting manuals and materials. Delivers campus-based sessions of the LeaderShape Institute; coordinates all participant recruitment and selection, identifies and selects appropriate faculty to serve as cluster facilitators, and manages site selection and logistics. Assists with the delivery of the Connections Leadership Conference Committee; ensures successful execution of the Connections Leadership Conference, including site selection and logistics, distributing a call for programs, organizing a peer-review process for submissions, and participant recruitment and selection. Provides advanced leadership skill development experiences to student organization executive boards, faculty/staff advisors, and student members. Designs and implements strategies to increase campus and community awareness of the importance of leadership skills and highlights the resources on the Central Michigan University campus to develop leadership skills. Assists the Admissions office with recruiting talented high school leaders to attend Central Michigan University. Maintains records for all programs and resource materials including number of attendees, satisfaction and impact of service, i.e., return on investment, learning outcomes, etc. Assists with program evaluation and assessment providing recommendations to enhance communications and advancing the university- wide model of leadership development. Other duties as assigned.
Supervision Exercised: None.
Employee Group: Professional & Administrative -Salary Staff Pay Level: Pay Range: $40,000 - $50,000 Division: Student Affairs Department: Leadership InstituteOpened in 1998, the CMU Leadership Institute is among the nations premier undergraduate leadership programs. The LI serves as the coordinating body for the Universitys vast student leadership development offerings.The Leadership Institute offers both academic and co-curricular opportunities to learn about leadership and equip students to lead. Throughout its rich 20-year history, the LI has offered dynamic programs that have created a new generation of ethical leaders in government, business, nonprofits, and communities.Beginning with the nationally recognized Leadership Safari, the LI offers four years of experiential leadership programs for all Central Michigan University students.The competitive Leader Advancement Scholarship brings 40 high-ability leaders to campus annually to complete a comprehensive four-year protocol. These students live, learn, and lead in an environment that makes leadership central to their collegiate experience. Position Status: Provisional Position End Date: 04/30/2026 Employment Status: Full Time FTE: 1.0 Position Type: 12 month Weekly Work Schedule: M-F 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; evenings and weekends as required Location: Mount Pleasant, MI Posting Ends: Open Until Filled: Yes
About the Department: Opened in 1998, the CMU Leadership Institute is among the nations premier undergraduate leadership programs. The LI serves as the coordinating body for the Universitys vast student leadership development offerings.The Leadership Institute offers both academic and co-curricular opportunities to learn about leadership and equip students to lead. Throughout its rich 20-year history, the LI has offered dynamic programs that have created a new generation of ethical leaders in government, business, nonprofits, and communities.Beginning with the nationally recognized Leadership Safari, the LI offers four years of experiential leadership programs for all Central Michigan University students.The competitive Leader Advancement Scholarship brings 40 high-ability leaders to campus annually to complete a comprehensive four-year protocol. These students live, learn, and lead in an environment that makes leadership central to their collegiate experience.
About CMU: Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.
We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, masters, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.
CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.
Central is home to 17 mens and womens Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3.17.
CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. Its part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the states largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.
Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions - Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more - are within easy reach of the citys central location in Michigans Lower Peninsula.
CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.
CMU Leadership Standards: Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.
We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.
Message to Applicants: Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering a broadly diverse and inclusive campus that respects all social identities, experiences, and perspectives. In an effort to further this initiative, we are especially interested in candidates who will advance and promote an inclusive and supportive environment for every member of our university community.
You must submit an on-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.
Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit recommendation letters.
Position will remain open until filled. The university reserves the right to close the recruitment process once a sufficient applicant pool has been identified. For best consideration, please submit application materials before Friday, March 1, 2024.
CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity within its community. CMU does not discriminate against persons based on age, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, height, marital status, national origin, political persuasion, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, sex-based stereotypes, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status, or weight (see https://www.cmich.edu/offices-departments/OCRIE). If you wish to see 'EEO is the Law' posters, please click here. CMU does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, including admission and employment, and is required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 not to discriminate in such a matter. Inquiries about the application of Title IX can be made to CMUs Title IX Coordinator, the US Department of Educations Assistant Secretary, or both. CMUs Title IX Coordinator can be reached at: Phone: 989-774-3253 Office: 103 E. Preston St. Bovee University Center, suite 306 Mount Pleasant, MI 48858 Email: titleix@cmich.edu
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Founded 125 years ago, Central Michigan University is a major, national university with 26,000 students, more than 30 remote locations in the U.S. and Canada, and 225,000 alumni worldwide.CMU offers more than 200 academic programs at the undergraduate, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels. Academic excellence is found in programs considered among the best in the nation, such as engineering, information systems, neuroscience, physician assistant, physical therapy, sales, logistics, fashion merchandising and design, advertising, marketing, public relations, and broadcasting. Central has been a pioneer in extended learning for nearly 50 years, and its online programs for undergraduates and the military, as well as its online MBA and online graduate education for teachers and school leaders, are nationally ranked.Central Michigan University expands its academics with immersive, hands-on opportunities such as research, volunteering, study abroad, internships and leadership experiences. The fourth-largest university in Michigan began with the mission of addressing a demand for teachers prepared and qualified to lead classrooms and educate future generations. That commitment to fulfil...ling unmet needs continues today through many newer programs, including our College of Medicine, which in May 2017 graduated its first class of doctors dedicated to serving medically underserved communities.Employees have access to fitness facilities and a nationally recognized wellness program as well as health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.With student-athletes who are expected to perform equally well in the classroom and on the field, CMU is a member of the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference. CMU Athletics regularly earns accolades for student excellence in the classroom (almost 30 percent of our students were honored in spring 2017 for GPAs of 3.5 or higher) and on the field, with frequent men’s and women’s championship seasons in sports such as football, basketball, gymnastics, field hockey, soccer, baseball and softball, and wrestling. Central is located in a quaint, tight-knit community in the heart of central lower Michigan. Our community offers a robust mix of outdoor opportunities, family attractions, restaurants and brew pubs. Mount Pleasant’s small-town life is complemented by cultural activities on campus, including concerts, plays and guest speakers. Mount Pleasant is an hour or two from most Michigan destination spots, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor, as well as the state’s sunset beaches, golf and ski resorts, and our famous “Up North” communities, state parks and lakes.