Assistant Director, Academic Engagement

Position Title Assistant Director, Academic Engagement
Job Category Administrator
Office/Department Center for Community, Service, and Justice
Work Environment Onsite
Location Evergreen Main Campus
Staff Job Type Full-time

If Temporary or Visiting, Estimated End Date:
Position Summary and Duties

A key member of Loyola's Center for Community, Service, and Justice team, the Assistant Director for Academic Engagement develops, implements, promotes, and provides logistical and administrative support for academic community engagement partnerships between Loyola faculty and academic departments and community-based organizations.

This position supports place-based community engagement focused in Loyola's York Road/Govans neighborhoods through partnerships including program­ based and project-based community-engaged learning or course-based service components, as well as academic entities' co-curricular service, community experiences, community speakers, research, and significant community initiatives.

This person works collaboratively with colleagues to develop innovative new community engagement partnerships, focusing on developing tools and skills for ethical and mutually beneficial partnerships.

The Assistant Director for Academic Engagement will:
Implement, support, and maintain academic community engagement programs, including Loyola's nationally recognized academic community-engaged learning program, other course-based partnerships, or community-engaged scholarship, whether program­ based, project-based, advocacy or research:

• Consult with Loyola constituents
• Provide logistical support for community engaged learning courses and academic community engagement programs and projects
• Serve as a resource for faculty on best practices
• Aid in community engaged course curricular integration
• Support community engaged course designation process and incentives
• Serve as an institutional link to various community organizations
• Serve on the Committee on Engaged Scholarship
• Support faculty development for community engagement with a focus asset based partnership with community based organizations.
• Share assessment tools with faculty and community partners
• Administer the Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship mini grants program
• Develop new partnerships, pilot programs, and models for academic community engagement. Maintain updated knowledge of the range of existing partnerships at CCSJ and the University. Maintain knowledge of the field of community engagement, especially where academics are concerned, in higher education. Consult with academic constituents about their community engagement initiatives and help develop their partnership skills and capacity. Engage in networking and vetting conversations with community partners. Connect academic constituents with existing or new partnership opportunities and the resources of CCSJ. Connect community partners to the academic and other resources of Loyola. Consult, advise, and support the logistics of new partnerships and engagement projects. Facilitate academic partner- community partner dialogues on values, shared goals, expectations, logistics, and assessment. Work with CCSJ staff to identify and secure funding to assist mutually beneficial academic­ community partnerships; work through collective impact strategies with multiple community partners to write and oversee the development of grants and contracts. Provide administrative backbone as needed for significant initiatives in academic community engagement. Communicate plans, efforts, and work to Center Executive Director, Faculty Director, and Associate Directors, and to internal and external constituents. Develop and implement budgets and timelines for projects.
• Oversee data collection, assessment, and reporting on academic community engagement. Work with Associate Director of Programs and Faculty Director to oversee implementation community-engaged learning assessments, and develop and implement assessment tools. Perform analysis of all data related to community-engaged learning courses and other academic engagement programs. Work with CCSJ staff to integrate data into the Loyola database and evaluate the quality of community-engaged earning and other academic engagement in order to improve programs. Produce regular reports on community-engaged learning and academic engagement for Academic Affairs and CCSJ and respond to other reporting needs. Design and use data collection to create research that furthers the field's knowledge about community-engaged pedagogies; share through conferences, journals, or other publications when appropriate.
• Promote Academic Community Engagement and other work of the Center for Community, Service, and Justice. Communicate and collaborate within CCSJ and across the University. Ensure visibility of programs outside the office via relationship-building, collaboration, and general presence on campus and at university events. Ensure representation of community-engaged learning scholarship at summer and fall orientations, Accepted Students Days, and other events and programs. Share data and stories about quantity, quality, and specifics of academic engagement activities. Help build a network of community-engaged scholars. Promote current community-engaged teaching and scholarship events and opportunities to faculty.
• Support Center's student intern team supervision and development by training and supporting undergraduate and graduate student interns in working with academic engagement programs. Provide supervision, oversight, and direction to 1-4 student interns and/or graduate assistants. Participate in student intern selection, training, and evaluation. Meet bi-weekly with each assigned student intern to provide oversight and guidance. May lead a Racial Justice biweekly reflection group for student interns and/or participate in ongoing curriculum development and evaluation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, sociology, higher education, nonprofit management, public health, public policy, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• 3 to 5 years experience
• Experience with community-based service, service-learning, social justice education, and/or advocacy.
• Experience with community, non-profit organizations, schools, and/or with people who are marginalized.
• Familiarity with programs and components of successful programs designed for asset­ based community development and social change.
• Experience as a participant or facilitator of racial justice (anti-racism) training.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with faculty or in adult education or development.
• Experience working with college students or young adults: training, mentoring, supervising and/or personal/professional or spiritual/faith development.
• Experience working with data collection, research and evaluation.
• Ability and desire to work with people from diverse religious, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as diverse professional frameworks, including students, faculty, grassroots organizers, community members, and nonprofit professionals.
• Desire and ability to work effectively within the framework of a Jesuit, Catholic, institution of higher education.
• Commitment to communicating and to sharing the Jesuit, Catholic mission, ideals and values, especially as they relate to service, issues of justice, diversity, and spirituality.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent time management and ability to juggle multiple priorities and coordinate multiple projects with and without strict deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office; ability and willingness to learn new software for websites, webinars, and presentations.
• Understanding of data analysis and statistics; ability to use statistical software such as SPSS.
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships within and between university and community partners.
• Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends as required.
• Ability and willingness to travel, primarily in the Baltimore metro region and occasionally out of town.

Preferred Qualifications
Preference given to Baltimore City residents.

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