Senior Program Manager for Co-Curricular Programs

Department Summary:

The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) is a joint program between Student Life and the College of Literature Science and the Arts focused on social justice education and intergroup dialogue. IGR works proactively to promote understanding of intergroup relations inside and outside of the classroom. Multidisciplinary courses and co-curricular programs utilize experiential learning and models of dialogue to help students learn about social inequalities, intergroup relations, and social justice.

Position Summary:

This position is primarily charged with the implementation of IGR co-curricular programs, specifically the professional management of Common Ground, Community-Based Learning, and teaching ALA 320:
Training in Intergroup dialogue Facilitation. Common Ground provides workshops for students in various organizations, units, schools, and colleges across the University. These workshops aim to raise awareness about social identities, social justice, and intergroup relations. Common Ground prepares undergraduate and graduate students to create and facilitate these interactive workshops. As part of this work, this position will be responsible for the Common Ground budget (approximately $50,000).

Community-based learning experiences include those in which U-M students learn about and facilitate critical intergroup dialogic work in community based settings.

• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership of Common Ground, including:
• Develop of programmatic goals, student learning outcomes, and structure,
• Lead program planning and implementation
• Lead marketing, branding, and outreach
• Assess needs and evaluate program efficacy
• Supervision and payroll approval for student colleagues
• Manage undergraduate and graduate student colleagues using developmentally appropriate supervision rooted in social justice education and identity awareness.
• Ground program in social justice education, leadership development, intercultural competency training, peer facilitation, and intra- and inter- group dialogue.
• Foster excellent communication and maintain program partnerships internal to the University of Michigan.
• Responsible for developing the Common Ground budget, tracking expenditures, reconciling and maintaining the budget, and reporting on the budget of approximately $50,000.
• Perform the daily tasks and duties needed to implement the initiatives goals.

Instruction and Lecturing (20%)

• Serve as ALA 320 instructor.
• Serve as ALA 324 instructor.

Community-Based Learning (15%)

• Provide day-to-day leadership of community-based learning including:
  • develop and implement training curriculum
  • program planning, implementation, and evaluation
  • marketing, branding, and outreach in collaboration with the Communications Strategist
• Supervise undergraduate and graduate student colleagues using developmentally appropriate supervision rooted in social justice education and identity awareness.
• Manage programs grounded in community-based learning, social justice education, leadership development, intercultural competency training, peer facilitation, and intra- and inter- group dialogue.
• Foster excellent communication and maintain program partnerships external to the University of Michigan.

IGR Theme Hall (5%)

• Collaborate with the Program Manager, Outreach & Curriculum Specialist, and Lec III to provide support with events for IGR's theme hall to advance community building, social justice education, and leadership development.
• Provide coaching on evaluation and storytelling efforts for the IGR Theme Hall in collaboration with others.
• Work with sensitive and protected information with discretion and good judgment to maintain confidentiality and attend to institutional risk-management concerns

Supervision, Coaching & Advising (5%)

• Provide high quality supervision and coaching to 1 FTE (Program Manager) using developmentally appropriate supervision rooted in social justice education and identity awareness.
• Responsible for hiring, onboarding, supervising, coaching, ongoing development, offboarding, and transitioning work for professional and student colleagues.

IGR Responsibilities (15%)

• Lead out a group of student colleagues who manage, collect and maintain statistical information, databases, and evaluations of programs and their storytelling efforts.
• Assist in the development of a unit culture that is student-centered, utilizing a self-authorship philosophy to guide and collaborate with students and organizations.
• Assist with IGR's annual National…