Student and Community Engagement Program Manager

100005BR

Campus: Tempe

Program Manager

Job Description

Under administrative direction, the Student and Community Engagement Program Manager performs work of considerable difficulty in coordinating and directing the activities and functions of the Student and Community Engagement Program within the School of Art. The goal of the Engagement Program is to provide students with tools that prepare them for both academic and professional success through the implementation of projects, tasks, and initiatives that target retention, recruitment, community outreach, and student welfare and wellbeing. The Program seeks to support the student culture of the School of Art and to ensure the smooth transition of students between high school, college, and post-graduation.

The Student and Community Engagement Program Manager will work independently to completely large-scale and complex projects, tasks, and initiatives, which include, but are not limited to: implementing and executing summer art camps, skills council, bridge programming, and major engagement events such as Open Door, Homecoming, Fall Welcome, ARTfest, and Brown Bag Workshops; serving as the primary liaison for student-led organizations and developing registration, community, and funding resources; cultivating community outreach programs that involve local and national establishments; connecting students with cultural, professional, academic, and financial support systems; and overseeing undergraduate scholarship processes and communication. To successfully execute these projects, tasks, and initiatives in accordance with School of Art needs, the Student and Community Engagement Program Manager must supervise a team of direct reports to support program goals; work closely with internal and external departments; utilize a range of university systems and technologies; develop promotional strategies for initiatives and programming; manage the operational and financial success of programs by controlling budgets and overseeing logistical, organizational, and procedural details; and complete assessments and evaluations of current and completed work.

Department Name

School Of Art

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-Time

Grant Funded Position

This is not a grant funded position and is not contingent on future grant funding.

Salary Range

$55,000 - $62,000 per year; DOE

Essential Duties

• Supervises the activities of subordinates.
• Supervises and facilitates the development of high impact training materials, training content, training delivery modes, or workshops, meetings and conferences with program/project participants; oversees logistics, scheduling and target audience communications.
• Oversees the evaluation of both the statewide and regional programs'/projects' effectiveness to develop and implement the goals and objectives of the program/project including: improved methods of program/project delivery; evaluation methodology design and implementation including analysis of results and takes or recommends proper action based on outcomes.
• Develops and monitors daily operations and coordinates program/project activities.
• Oversees the preparation of proposals for continued funding; acts as the primary liaison with current funding source.
• Supervises the preparation of budget proposals; establishes expenditure controls and recommends the allocation of resources within the limitations of the budget.
• Directs the recruitment of local participants within the region utilizing the most appropriate promotional and marketing methods.
• Establishes and maintains liaison with regional, state, and national organizations involved in the implementation of technology.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field AND five years administrative/coordination experience; OR, Master's degree in field appropriate to area of assignment AND three years administrative/coordination experience; OR Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in developing proposals for external funding of projects.
• Experience in planning, budgeting, implementing and evaluating projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of processes to conduct needs assessments.
• Experience in designing training materials and presentations to meet needs assessed.
• Experience in implementing training, session reviews, and follow-up procedures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of processes for dissemination of results through presentations, reports, and publications.
• Evidence of effective communication.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and establishing and facilitating work teams.

Working Environment

• Activities are mostly performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse; frequently required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work.
• Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts.
• Ability to clearly communicate to perform essential functions.
• Calculator, telephone, computer (monitor, keyboard and mouse), printer, fax and copier.
• This position receives regular review of objectives

Department Statement

The Herberger Institute comprises the School of Art; School of Arts, Media and Engineering; The Sidney Poitier New American Film School; School of Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School; and the ASU Art Museum. With 130 degree and certificate options, and programs ranked top 20 in art, design, music, theatre, digital culture, film, dance and more, plus a top university art museum, a leading immersive media facility, and national and international partnerships, the Herberger Institute is a powerhouse of art, culture and design. 

Our mission is to position designers, artists, scholars and educators at the center of public life and prepare them to use their creative capacities to advance culture, build community and imaginatively address today’s most pressing challenges.

The vision of the Herberger Institute is to advance the New American University by embedding designers, artists and arts-based inquiry at its core and throughout the communities it serves locally, nationally and internationally. With 7,000+ students, mare than 700 faculty members, and 130 program options, the Herberger Institute is committed to redefining the 21st-century design and arts school.

As part of Arizona State University, the most innovative university in the nation, the Herberger Institute seeks to drive and scale new ways for arts and design to have impact in our world. We invite you to join our work.

Values:

• Creativity as a core 21st-century competency
• Design and the arts as critical resources for transforming our society
• Innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration and research
• Social embeddedness
• Projecting all voices
• Excellence

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