Assistant Director, Intercultural Student Success and Engagement

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At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers 50 majors and robust offerings of graduate and professional programs across eight schools of study including Rhode Island's only law school, with campuses on the coast of Bristol and in the heart of Providence, R.I. With small classrooms and a focus on undergraduate and graduate research and community engagement, a Roger Williams education blends the strength of liberal arts and professional studies, providing all students with the depth and breadth of interdisciplinary thinking and well-rounded knowledge necessary to succeed in our interconnected, global world.

RWU is committed to strengthening society through engaged scholarship so that students graduate with the ability to think critically and apply the practical skills that today's employers demand.

Roger Williams University seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. We value all races, genders, identities, and abilities. RWU is committed to creating a thriving community that encourages lifelong learning, professional development, and academic innovation.

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Looking to start or make a move into a career in higher education? If you enjoy working with college students and care about student engagement, mentoring, intercultural learning, leadership, and student success, this may be the role for you. We welcome new professionals, career changers, and applicants from a range of professional and educational backgrounds. If this work interests you and you meet the required qualifications, we encourage you to apply.

The Assistant Director, Intercultural Student Success and Engagement is assigned primarily to the Intercultural Center (IC) and reports to the Director of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The role coordinates student support, academic coaching, mentoring, student leadership development, intercultural education, student success initiatives, and community-building programs for students.

The Assistant Director supports students who engage with the IC, with particular expertise in the experiences of first-generation students and students from varied cultural, linguistic, religious, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds. The role uses an intersectional approach to strengthen access, belonging, retention, persistence, well-being, leadership, and academic success.

The Assistant Director supports prospective, pre-college, and enrolled students and contributes to selected alumni-engagement activities. Responsibilities include academic coaching, mentoring, student organization advising, peer mentoring, resource navigation, intercultural programming and education, assessment, communications, and campus partnerships. The role also supports education and campus partnerships related to intercultural dialogue, bias awareness, inclusive student engagement, and broader Division of Equity and Inclusion priorities focused on a thriving campus community.

• Provide academic coaching, mentoring, referral, and follow-up for students who seek support through the IC, with attention to the educational, financial, cultural, linguistic, and family circumstances affecting student success.
• Support student access, retention, persistence, belonging, and success through proactive outreach, resource navigation, academic success planning, and timely connection to campus partners.
• Partner with advising, tutoring, counseling, Residence Life and Housing, accessibility, health services, student conduct, career education, financial aid, faculty, admissions, and other offices to reduce barriers and coordinate student support.
• Track student contacts, referrals, follow-up themes, academic support needs, and student success trends for review with the supervisor and relevant partners.
• Support prospective, pre-college, and enrolled students through programs and short-term projects tied to access, persistence, retention, and success, and contribute to selected alumni-engagement activities.

• Develop, maintain, implement, and evaluate IC services, programs, events, workshops, and student engagement initiatives.
• Coordinate programs…