Asst Dean of Students - Engagement & Wellne

Westminster University•Salt Lake City, UT

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Dean of Students for Student Engagement and Wellness (ADOS SEW) is a twelve-month full-time staff member of the Division of Student Affairs and reports directly to the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student (AVP/DOS). The ADOS SEW is a key member of the Vice President of Student Affairs and Athletics leadership team and is a highly visible student-centered leader in Student Affairs. This Assistant Dean provides vision and leadership to create and foster a healthy, safe, and inclusive robust campus life for a diverse student population. As a divisional leader, the ADOS SEW is tasked with providing leadership and oversight for the work areas of Student Engagement and Belonging, Outdoor Program, and Integrated Wellness. The Assistant Dean serves as the university ADA Coordinator and has special planning duties for Convocation and Commencement. The dynamic student development work delivered by these units is intentionally designed to remove barriers of participation, educate students on unconscious bias, and invite students to co-create an inclusive campus environment. The Assistant Dean is a lead champion for the centering diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging in student affairs programming and services. Directors reporting to the Assistant Dean of Student Engagement and Wellness are experienced and respected by their campus colleagues. They are deeply committed to removing barriers to student success for all identities. This is a key leadership role for cross-unit collaboration and coordination that removes barriers to people of differing abilities. Student Affairs at Westminster is committed to creating an environment that encourages students’ exploration of self while pursuing community and working toward academic success. Westminster is a private comprehensive liberal arts institution with a deep commitment preparing students to lead lives of learning, accomplishment, and service and to help them develop skills and attributes vital for success in a diverse and interdependent world. Westminster centralizes engaged learning that emphasizes theory and practice academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs. A culture of imagination and innovation with a committed practice of inclusiveness and respect for differences.

Requirements

Master’s degree in higher education administration, counseling, business administration, or law from an accredited college or university
Five years of related experience in an academic setting
Experience in higher education, particularly in the area(s) of student development, programming, DEIAB informed practice, student wellness
Experience supervising professional staff
Demonstrated experience working with college students
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with resolution of all types of student grievances
Ability to attend occasional after-hour work events and respond to unplanned student emergencies
Demonstrated experience in administration, budget management, assessment, problem-solving, and crisis or emergency response
Demonstrated experience in policy interpretation, application, and compliance
Demonstrated knowledge of federal legislation, guidelines and updates including:
Title IX (1972) and ongoing updates
Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights (1992)
Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act/Campus SAVE Act (2013)
Clery Act (1990)
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act (2007)
Rehabilitation Act (1973)
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act/FERPA (1974)
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act/HIPPA (1996)
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act/ DFSCA (2018)
Federal Anti-hazing legislation: REACH Act (2021)

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience with institutional level programming for signature events, such as Commencement, Convocation, student leadership summits, and campus-wide orientation.
Experience with facility accessibility and program accessibility

Responsibilities

Directly supervise the Director of Student Engagement and Belonging (SEB) who leads a team of four professional staff who manage registered student organizations, Associated Students of Westminster (ASW) (student government), ASW Programming Board, ASW Allocations, student center tabling, and department programs. SEB also coordinates New Student Orientation for undergraduates, transfer students, and Parents and Families.
Directly supervise the Director of Outdoor Program who leads highly collaborative team of two professional staff members and an extended team of student employees and student trip leaders. Outdoor Program oversees/manages experiential education programs that develop student leadership and/or technical skills, oversees student-led outdoor trips, pre-orientation student experiences, the campus Bike Collective, Ski and Snowboard Collective, rental gear, climbing wall, robust partnership with the Outdoor Education Leadership department, and permit issuance to the Wasatch Front.
Directly supervise the Director of Integrated Wellness as they deliver comprehensive health and wellness services and support to the student community. Integrated Wellness consists of a Director, an Assistant Director as outlined in this job description, staff Nurse Practitioner(s) and Mental Health Therapist(s), and clinical trainee(s). Integrated Wellness provides on-site medical and mental health care for students, designs and delivers student wellness programming, and provides frontline customer service to various stakeholder groups for Integrated Wellness initiatives.
As ADA Coordinator (Title II) for Westminster, this campus leader is responsible for advocacy and delivery of institution-wide oversight of compliance with American Disability Act (ADA).
Coordinating a cross-unit task for digital accessibility compliance
Identify and respond to complaints about barriers to accessibility – physical, technological, academic – through DRC and collaboration with other campus departments
Coordinate ADA Grievance processes through informal mediation and formal complaint procedures for students and employees
Provide ADA training and information resources for faculty and staff, sometimes in coordination with Human Resources and Student Disability Services
Establish and maintain productive partnerships with units across the institution including Student Disability Services, Human Resources, Campus Safety, Information Services, and Marketing and Communications
Collaborate with Student Success and Retention Team in coordination of retention and matriculation initiatives related to work areas in portfolio.
Foster and maintain strategic partnerships with Student Disability Services, Student Success, Campus Events, Admissions, Athletics, and departments within the Division of Student Affairs.
Produce departmental assessment plans that expand the potential for student success by utilizing a data-informed approach to student programming that positively contributes to retention and graduation rates.
Develop, analyze, and generate departmental reports containing descriptive analytical and evaluative content generated by completing formative and summative assessment.
Serve as a Campus Security Authority and Mandatory Reporter
Student conduct officer when needed
Data management, facility management, assessment, and reporting
Assist students and other parties in policy understanding and application
Provide collaborative leadership and coordination of high-profile institutional events including convocation and commencement