Black Cultural Center Coordinator of Services and Programming

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Description

Berea College is seeking a dedicated and passionate BCC Coordinator of Services & Programming to support students in the Black Student Union and Black Music Ensemble. This role is vital in assisting students with academic, spiritual, psychological, and social challenges while ensuring they navigate the College’s policies and procedures effectively. The Coordinator will play a key role in fostering student success and retention by providing essential guidance and resources.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Serves as the holistic wellbeing coach to the members of the Black Student Union, Black Music Ensemble (BME), the Berea College gospel choir, and to other students as coordinator of services.
• Become familiar with the Ensemble by attending some (but not all) rehearsals and other Ensemble-related events and will be available for BME students for individual consultation.
• Provides direct support to students and coordinate program initiatives across campus to support student groups (including but not limited to the Black Student Union, Sisters of Queens United Among the Diaspora, and Sankofa Scholars)
• Provide group and one-on-one mentoring opportunities, particularly to rising seniors and marginalized communities, in conjunction with existing programs of the Black Cultural Center and Black Music Ensemble
• Recommend approaches to improving the student engagement experience through programming.
• Assist in organizing support programs, workshops, or resources to help students navigate academic and challenges.
• Document and report student concerns, trends, and progress to relevant stakeholders in the Student Life department while maintaining confidentiality
• In support of Berea College’s great commitments this position requires student supervision. The fourth great commitment is to promote learning and serving in the community through the student labor program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. The Supervision would include scheduling, assigning and approving work performed. Developing students about common workplace acumen and giving them tangible work experience is an expected outcome. To learn more about the student labor program and requirements on this position see: Labor Program Goals
  
  

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Education, Health Promotion, or related field
• Experience, background, or training in counseling and coordinating BIPOC support services
• Two – Four years of experience working with college or university students
  
  

Knowledge of the following:

• Strong ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to work well with students, co-workers, and faculty
• Demonstrated skills in conflict management
• Demonstrated sensitivity and understanding to diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disabilities, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds.
  
  

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Our Benefits

Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.

Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.

To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits.

Our Unique Culture

Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

Labor Supervision

In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.