Position Purpose

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors plus 3-5 years experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Three years of relevant work experience in counseling, advising, and/or mentoring students in college/university setting.
• Demonstrated experience in student leadership development.
• Background in developing and managing integrated support services for under-represented communities.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a respectful and collaborative manner with others.
• Demonstrated success in utilizing data for planning and evaluation of programs and services.
• Demonstrated commitment to personal and departmental integrity, creativity, collaboration, initiative, multicultural education, and professionalism.
• Excellent human relations, group leadership, and communication skills to relate effectively to all constituent groups within the Dartmouth community.
• Excellent collaboration, listening, and interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a team setting.
• Strong administrative, counseling, and program development skills.
• Strong conflict management and resolution skills.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Supervisory and/or leadership ability.
• Demonstrated ability to foster positive and productive relationships with all campus constituencies, including institutional leaders, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and parents and families.
• Demonstrated cultural competence; proven effectiveness in serving the needs of a diverse undergraduate student population
• Ability to balance competing demands under pressure.
• Ability to adapt personal and professional schedule to Dartmouth’s year-round calendar.
• Success in collaborating with colleagues in developing comprehensive and integrated efforts in supporting Native American/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian/Indigenous students.
• Proven record of successful experience responding to individual and community issues.
• Commitment to diversity and to serving the needs of a diverse community, including intersectional identities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in multicultural and social justice education and leadership development preferred.
• Experience in developing and managing budgets.
• Crisis management and/or on-call experience.
• Masters degree preferred

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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Special Instructions to Applicants

Program Administration (40 pct of time)

• Implements and manages co-curricular programs, initiatives, and special events that improve the academic and social success of Native and Indigenous students.
• In collaboration with the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Residential Education, serves as program advisor for the Native American House residential affinity house.
• Celebrates Native student and community achievement and knowledge through the facilitation of the coordination of the student-run annual Dartmouth Powwow, graduation events, internships, and first-year student orientation programs.
• Oversees the production of the Native American Program electronic communications, marketing, publications, and outreach materials.
• Hires, supervises, trains, and evaluate Native American Program staff including the Assistant Director, Program Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, student interns, and peer advisors.
• Works in partnership with faculty, administration, and students to develop programs (lectures, discussions, film series, etc.), which educate and support all Dartmouth students about the importance of diversity within a liberal arts education and global framework.
• Works collaboratively with the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the Tucker Center to provide anchors of support to historically under-represented students, campus multicultural education, leadership development, campus service, community service, and professional development.

Advising & Mentoring (25 pct of time)

• Advises, mentors, and counsels students on a wide variety of academic, personal, social, cultural, career, and community concerns.
• Monitors individual student academic performance and welfare and consults with faculty and other administrative departments to ensure student success.
• Refers and connects students to departments and campus resources.
• Honors the intersectional identities of students, and maintains a working knowledge of how intersectional identities affect the student experience.
• Encourages the development and maintenance of mentorship relationships for and between Native and Indigenous students.
• Serves as a member of the Student Affairs “Dean-on-Call” emergency response team. · Serves as an advisor to Native and Indigenous student leaders and organizations focused on the needs and concerns of Native and Indigenous students.

Budget Administration (15 pct of time)

• Prepares and manages program budgets and any special funds or grants, office correspondence, annual reports, and office records.
• In collaboration with Advancement and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs, stewards gifts and endowments designated to the Native American Program.

Advocacy (15 pct of time)

• Provides consultation to organizations and opens up pathways for students’ expression of Native and Indigenous cultural identity.
• Participates in facilitating educational programming and interventions to improve campus climate and community understanding.
• Conducts outreach, develops initiatives and educational programming that address individual, institutional, and cultural manifestations of oppression.

To Apply

Submit your application, and please refer to the posting, at this link: https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/1128363