Unit Manager, The Centers for Student Access, Community, and Intercultural Communication (The Centers

Unit Manager, The Centers for Student Access, Community, and Intercultural Communication (The Centers)

Position Title Unit Manager, The Centers for Student Access, Community, and Intercultural Communication (The Centers)

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The LGBTQ+ Western Department supports Western's mission , which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

LGBTQ+ Western works to advance the holistic thriving of diverse LGBTQ+ students, faculty and staff at Western Washington University by collaboratively engaging the university community with transformational knowledge, resources, advocacy and celebration.

The Unit Manager for the Centers for Student Access, Community, and Intercultural Engagement (The Centers) is a critical member of The Centers team and shares responsibility for fostering an environment and delivering services that are accessible, inclusive, and equitable. The Unit Manager works primarily out of the Multicultural Center in the Viking Union.

Under the supervision and direction of the LGBTQ+ Director, the Unit Manager provides administrative support and programmatic support for The Centers and the departments in it:
The Office of Multicultural Student Services (MSS), LGBTQ+ Western, and the Disability Access Center (DAC). The Unit Manager will primarily support LGBTQ+ Western including supervising some student staff.

The Unit Manager furthers Western’s strategic goals in equity, excellence, and inclusion for our students. The position designs and delivers co-curricular programming and services supporting the self-determination, well-being, and holistic success of students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and disabled students, including students who hold multiple marginalized identities. Through development and delivery of programs, administrative and fiscal support, outreach, and broad advisement, the position supports positive identity development and builds intercultural understanding for Western students.

About the position:

The Centers Unit Manager is a one-two year project position that helps maintain services, programs, and events within The Centers for Student Access, Community, and Intercultural Engagement. This position primarily supports Multicultural Student Services (MSS), LGBTQ+ Western, and Disability Access Center (DAC).

The Unit Manager will support some of the duties of the LGBTQ+ Western department. This position will supervise or co-supervise student staff members and collaborate closely with professional staff from Multicultural Student Services.

This role is supervised by the LGBTQ+ Director.

The State HR Classification for this position is Program Specialist
2. This is a project-employment position ending no later than June 30, 2027.

• Bachelors Degree in any Field
• Three (3) years of professional experience working in programs related to access, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Experience…