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Department
DISABILITY SERVICES FOR STUDEN (BL-DABL-IUBLA)
Department Information
The Division of Student Affairs is focused on building a strong foundation to ensure every student's IU experience is positive, safe, healthy, and meaningful. The Division of Student Affairs staff and 21 departments aim to help students navigate their time at IU, providing the tools they need to be successful in school and after graduation. Students are our priority, and their health, safety, and overall well-being are our core mission.
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Job Summary
- Develops and implements programs and initiatives that offer support for students in crisis, facing adversity or challenges, or who belong to an under-represented or minority student population.
- Interfaces directly with students by attending student programming events, advising student organization leaders, meeting one-on-one to discuss support needs, and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student services initiatives and objectives.
- Places an emphasis on confidentiality of student concerns, university policy compliance, and a culture of care within all direct student interactions.
- Collaborates with staff in own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student support goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs and initiatives.
- Projects outcomes for support services offered at the program, department/division, or campus level.
- Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student support initiatives against projected outcomes; regularly prepares reports on impact to students and budget and may present to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
- Serves on committees and performs student support research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
- Plans and coordinates communications for student support initiatives to ensure student participation, inclusion, and engagement.
- May provide guidance to other student support staff; makes process recommendations to manager for improved delivery of service.
QualificationsEDUCATION
Required- Bachelor's degree in education, public affairs, public health, counseling, social work, business, or a related field
Preferred- Master's degree in higher education student affairs or a related field
WORK EXPERIENCE
Required- 2 years in student services, higher education, social work, counseling, law, or a related field
Combinations of related education and experience may be considered SKILLS
Required
- Proficient communication skills
- Maintains a high degree of professionalism
- Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
- Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
- Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
- Highly thorough and dependable
- Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
- Demonstrates ability to maintain confidential information
- Ability to simultaneously handle multiple priorities
- Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills
- Demonstrates customer service skills
- Knowledge of student development, counseling, or career development theories and practices
- Knowledge of current needs and trends of diverse student populations
- Ability to advise students individually and in groups on student-related matters
- Commitment to working with people from diverse backgrounds and demonstrated cultural competency
- Ability to build strong partnerships with students and other university departments
Working Conditions / DemandsThis role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.
Work LocationBloomington, Indiana
Job ClassificationCareer Level: Career
FLSA: Exempt
Job Function: Student Services
Job Family: Student Support
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