Valor Coordinator

**Working Title**: VALOR Coordinator

**State Role Title**:N/A

**Position Type**:Administrative & Professional (Non-teaching Faculty)

**Position Status**:Full-Time

**College/Division**:Student Affairs Unit

**Department**: 100789 - VALOR

**Starting Pay Rate**:$44,000

**Is this a JMU only position? **No

**Is this a grant-funded position? **No

**Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position? **No

**Beginning Review Date**:06/09/2024

**About JMU**:
Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.

Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.

Who We Are
Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.

JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

**General Information**:
The Coordinator of Veteran and Military Connected Student Services serves as a campus leader who develops, oversees, and administers and evaluates educational, comprehensive, and inclusive Veteran and Military Connected Student program initiatives. This position performs professional, leadership, management and administrative duties in the planning, coordination and directing of initiatives that enhance campus-wide engagement in Veteran and Military Connected Student efforts, education and outreach. The position reports to the Vice President for Student Affairs and actively collaborates with other campus partners, local and state government agencies/officials and community agencies and partners to deliver relevant population-based, services, programs and education.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
 Provide strategic leadership for the Veteran and Military Connected Student (JMU VALOR) Department. Directly supervise JMU VALOR staff ensuring that performance evaluations align with divisional and departmental mission, vision and values. Provide direction to advance and expand the JMU VALOR Department.

 Develop and manage relationships with local, state and federal governmental agencies and officials as well as local non-governmental partners to include:

- Congressman Ben Cline and his local district office and staff and their focus on the
Veterans History Project in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institutions
- VA Department of Veteran Services and manage the space and needs of their staff
member that will be housed in the JMU VALOR resource center as a service to all
Veterans in the Shenandoah Valley north of Staunton
- Partner and work with the local chapters of the Department of Foreign Wars,
Harrisonburg VA Clinic, The American Legion, Harrisonburg VA AmVets, and Army
National Guard.

 Partner with Admissions, Orientation and Family Engagement Offices to recruit, orient, and welcome the 800+ military-connected students at JMU
- Connect with and share resources to potential students at CHOICES and Academic Open House
- Provide an open house and tabling during all orientation events for military-connected families to identify and understand the resources available to them at JMU
- Share resources at First Year Student Send-Offs in collaboration with Parent Relations
- Provide a welcome letter in the summer and a welcome kit to every incoming military connected student

 Develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive holistic student initiatives. Serves as a leader in creating a comprehensive culture of awareness and support for veteran and military connected students.
- Host a welcome event in partnership with ROTC to connect both communities and
elevate this population in the consciousness and culture of JMU
- Operation Education - Lifetime Network Broadcast partnership to create a TV broadcast centering JMU veterans
- 9/11 5K in partnership with UREC, ROTC, and VA Momentum
- Veterans Day events - Flag Display, recognition event, partnership with JMU Football for Heroes’ Day events
- Regular meal gatherings twice a month for Veterans
- Welcome events at the beginning of both the Fall and Spring se