Director Center Student Engagement

Georgetown University comprises two unique campuses in the nation’s capital. With the Hilltop Campus located in the heart of the historic Georgetown neighborhood, and the Capitol Campus, just minutes from the U.S. Capitol and U.S. Supreme Court, Georgetown University offers rigorous academic programs, a global perspective, and unparalleled opportunities to engage with Washington, D.C. Our community is a close-knit group of remarkable individuals driven by intellectual inquiry, a commitment to social justice, and a shared dedication to making a difference in the world.

The Director of the Center for Student Engagement promotes student involvement and furthers community on campus while linking academic life with co-curricular engagement. This position represents student co-curricular involvement as an institutional priority in a variety of contexts, supervises the access to, and allocation of student organization benefits, works with faculty and student advisory boards and advises students. The Director provides strategic leadership and management of a department of nine full-time program staff members, three part-time graduate assistants, and several student staff members.

Professional staff on this team provide advising, program development and administrative support to over 250 student groups. Content areas include Student Organizations, Outdoor Education, Debate, New Student Orientation, Student Media, Student Government, Club Sports, the Georgetown Program Board, transition programs, and campus leadership programs. The Director is responsible for overseeing budgets, operations, administrative management, and assessment of a wide variety of student-engagement programs.

The Director convenes groups of peers and staff across the university to coordinate and standardize student engagement strategies across schools, departments and programs, in both curricular and co-curricular units. This person is expected to set and uphold exemplary standards of practice for advising students, developing student leadership values and skills, innovating programs and services, and engaging a wide-variety of stakeholders in the support for co-curricular learning.

This position reports to the Senior Associate Vice President for Student Engagement as part of the Community and Identity Formation cluster within the Division of Student Affairs. Others who report to the Senior Associate Vice President are the Executive Directors of the Center for Social Justice and the Academic Resource Center, the Director of the Office of Student Conduct, the Senior Director of Student Formation, and the Director of the Military and Veteran’s Resource Center.

The Director of the Center for Student Engagement attends the Student Affairs Directors’ meetings. All student-activities-related functions are reviewed by this position. Directly reporting to this position are the Associate Director of Student Engagement, the Director of Outdoor Education, the Director of Orientation, Transition, and Family Engagement, and the Director of Policy Debate. The Director of the Center for Student Engagement must represent student co-curricular involvement as an institutional priority in a variety of contexts, ensuring that campus planning and policy support a strong campus life program that provides significant opportunity for overall growth and student leadership development.

The Director is responsible directly for over 250 student organizations, and indirectly for approximately 100 more reporting to other departments in the university.

The Director is responsible for establishing and implementing policy for all student organizations regarding events and projects on and off campus, seeking always to maintain co-curricular involvement as a learning experience for students. The Director is responsible for anticipating, advising, and participating in the management of the institution’s risk and liability in student programming and its commitment to speech and expression.

This person manages a staff with diverse areas of involvement and expertise; therefore, the Director must remain current on issues across a wide…