Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Posted: 12-May-25
Location: Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Type: Full-time
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Internal Number: 25021
Overview
The Assistant Director of Student Engagement for Commuter Central and Leadership Development is a full-time 12-month live-in position in Student Engagement. The Assistant Director (AD) reports to the Associate Director of Student Engagement. The AD offers a range of services, programs, and support for members of the commuter, transfer, adult learner, and Veteran communities. The AD aims to help these populations thrive, helping them feel a sense of belonging and preparedness for success at Ursinus. Additionally, the AD leads the coordination of leadership development programs and experiences and assists with services and programs of the Student Engagement office, including orientation, student organizations, and student activities. The AD also serves on the crisis response team in an on-call rotation.
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership for services, programs and policies that support commuter students, transfer students, Veteran students, adult learners, and other student populations.
- Establishes, implements, and assesses a new student leadership development program that will launch in Spring 2026 and be geared toward First Year and Sophomore students.
- Builds collaborative partnerships with faculty, departments and local community constituencies that foster student engagement and success.
- Responsible for the daily coordination of the department and the commuter lounge.
- Initiate, plan and facilitate events tailored to commuters, nontraditional, and other students.
- Serve as primary advisor of Student Government Association, SGA with support of the Associate Director.
- Assists with managing the Organization Accreditation Process (OAP) and Student Club and Organization Training (SCOT) sessions for AFAC-funded student organizations.
- Coordinate assessment of the curricular approach for commuter students, transfers, adult learners, and Veterans, as well as Student Engagement programming.
- Assist in planning, facilitating, and evaluating student-initiated campus programs
- Serve as a resource for students concerning information about campus programming and organizations.
- Assist in recruiting and selecting students for the Orientation Leader program.
- Assist with creating all resource materials for campus organizations, off-campus activities, advisors’ manual, and the student organization manual.
- Assist in maintaining any Student Engagement mobile applications, the Student Engagement website, orientation website, and utilize social media to market programming and orientation.
- Assist in maintaining and reviewing the department’s budget.
- Work collaboratively with campus partners in planning, implementing, and evaluating Orientation, Family Weekend, Homecoming.
- Promote an environment that affirms diversity, intercultural interaction, and community building activities.
- Serves on the crisis response team in an on-call rotation.
- Serve on campus wide committees as needed.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required. Master’s Degree in Higher Ed. Counseling, Student Personnel, or closely related field preferred.
- Two to three years’ experience in student affairs, which may include work experience during graduate school.
- Experience or working knowledge of the following areas: leadership training, Greek life, student programming, new student orientation, office administration, advising and supervision.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (word, excel, power point, publisher, etc.) database management, and web page software.
- Familiarity with the small residential liberal arts college setting.
- The expectation of high campus visibility and relationship building among all members of the Ursinus community including, but not limited to faculty, staff, and students is greatly desired.
