Student Engagement and Curriculum Coordinator

Student Engagement and Curriculum Coordinator

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

The student engagement and curriculum coordinator works in partnership with the Institute's directors and faculty to oversee the Institute's various educational and pedagogical projects, to promote student learning in curricular and extracurricular environments on campus, and to engage in student outreach. The student engagement and curriculum coordinator is responsible for articulating the center's educational vision and strategic planning; administration of Wallenberg Institute courses and student leadership programs;

and leading student dialogue sessions. The successful candidate will contribute to the Wallenberg Institute's inclusive atmosphere of collaboration and shared decision‑making. The student engagement and curriculum coordinator should possess subject knowledge relevant to the mission of the Institute, as well as expertise and experience pertaining to pedagogy and education.

The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan fosters the values embodied by Raoul Wallenberg empathy, tolerance, courage, and leadership by studying hatred directed against religious and ethnic communities, fostering cross‑cultural understanding, and elevating civic discourse. Through teaching, research, and public engagement, the institute will develop strategies to combat antisemitism, divisiveness, and discrimination.

Raoul Wallenberg, the institute's namesake, was a Swedish humanitarian who graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in architecture in 1935. Nine years later he volunteered to work in Budapest on behalf of the US War Refugee Board to aid US efforts to rescue European Jews during the Holocaust. He is credited with saving some twenty thousand Jews from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp by establishing safe houses and handing out Swedish protective papers.

Wallenberg was made an honorary citizen of the United States by President Ronald Reagan one of only eight people in history to receive this honor and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Barack Obama. Since 1985, Wallenberg's legacy has been honored at the University of Michigan through the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture and the Wallenberg Fellowship.

Manage educational efforts and collaborations (50%)

• Create courses within the university system, including cross‑listing and promoting courses, in collaboration with relevant academic departments.
• Work with Wallenberg research fellows in relation to their U‑M coursework to advance a supportive teaching collaborative at the Wallenberg Institute.
• Support Wallenberg directors in the organization of the flagship course for the Wallenberg Institute:
  Religious and Ethnic Tolerance.
• Manage the GSI application and hiring process, including coordination with GSITO for training for new GSIs.
• Finalize course approvals and changes through the LSA Curriculum Committee by providing recommendations based on analysis of data and feedback.
• Create and submit the Course descriptions in the Course Guide.
• Monitor registration closely; collect and track enrollment data.
• Coordinate/order course evaluations and make arrangements for student accommodations for Wallenberg courses.
• Support Wallenberg directors in creating and running the Wallenberg Institute Fellows program bringing in faculty from across the University (including Flint & Dearborn) to talk about best practices around teaching difficult subject matter.

Student Engagement/Outreach (30%)

• Recruit and arrange dialogue groups (i.e. Dialogue and Donuts) and programs (i.e.…