Director, Center for Student Engagement - Full-time

The Director of the Center for Student Engagement promotes student involvement and furthers community on campus while linking academics with co-curricular activities.  This position represents student co-curricular involvement as an institutional priority in a variety of contexts, supervises the access to, and allocation of student organization benefits, works with faculty and student advisory boards and advises students. The Director provides strategic leadership and management of a department of nine full-time program staff members, three part-time graduate assistants and one full-time support staff member plus several student staff members. The Center for Student Engagement encompasses program support for: student organizations, outdoor education, intercollegiate policy debate, orientation and first-year experience, family engagement programs, student media, student government, club sports, major campus programs, and campus leadership programs. The Director is responsible for overseeing budgets, operations, administrative management, and assessment. This person is expected to set exemplary standards of practice for advising students, developing student leadership values and skills, innovating programs and services, and engaging a wide-variety of stakeholders in support of co-curricular learning.   The person in this position plays a key leadership role in the Center for Student Engagement and the Division of Student Affairs. This person must show thoughtful and informed leadership on issues facing practitioners in contemporary higher education, including equity, inclusion and social justice on college campuses; the balance between respecting freedom of speech and support for community; and strategies for promoting health and well-being through social engagement. The role requires a person with strong background in student development and leadership theory as well as the ability to translate theory to practice. The successful candidate will be able to balance conceptual priorities with practical logistics and attention to detail, the ability to multi-task, the ability to be flexible and responsive to a variety of situations, and a genuine interest in working with students and staff across the university. This position will report to the Assistant Dean in Student Affairs. Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the United States; institutional mission and values inform all aspects of student life, both inside and outside the classroom.   The Center for Student Engagement is a fast-paced, high-energy environment. Student contact is extensive and substantive. Staff members work collaboratively within the office and with many other university-wide constituent groups. Staff members are expected to exercise a high degree of responsibility and independent judgment and work irregular or extended hours during peak programming times.  The Center for Student Engagement and Georgetown University are committed to hiring a diverse staff reflective of our student body; persons from historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Keywords: Director for Student Engagement, Location: Washington, DC - 20057