What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Student Activities position at Hocking College?
Director of Student Activities & Engagement
Lead student engagement beyond the classroom for the purpose of student development, engagement, retention and degree completion. Provide living/learning opportunities that include but are not limited to leadership development, planning/management, community service and achievement of career/life goals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, organize and execute student engagement activities on and off campus a minimum of 2 events per month that meets the living learning goals to promote personal development of commuter and residential students.
- Coordinate planning of events with campus partners including but not limited to, Residential Housing, Student Center, Well-being Center, Career Center, International Student Services, and First-Year Experience/Diversity Education that support retention efforts.
- Develops program learning outcomes that support the Strategic Completion Plan.
- Participate in institutional effectiveness by measuring annual goals, objectives, and assessment of learning outcomes.
- Maintain and promote a student activities calendar through the Marketing Department in collaboration with Events at Hocking and the Student Center.
- Advise the Student Activities Advisory Board to provide leadership, event planning and delivery of weekly/monthly student planned events.
- Work with the Assistant to the Vice President of Student Life in planning, promoting and executing large campus events such as Start Week, All Hocking Learning Day, etc.
- Provide a wide-range of personal, academic, and leadership training to all student organizations.
- Support other campus event partners, Alumni, Academics and Athletics with campus activities.
- Provides student organizations with mandatory officer training each semester that covers, Robert's Rules of Order, utilization of student finances and compliance with fiscal protocol, fundraising, event planning and space requests.
- Develops and updates an annual required faculty/staff advisor training program.
- Cultivates new clubs, and supports all clubs in their pursuit of student engagement in co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Oversees the annual registration of all clubs, maintains lists of members/advisors, provides assistance with club purchases and event planning.
- Supervise the Driving Range management in collaboration with the Student Center Staff.
- Serves on the Graduation, Homecoming, All Hocking Learning Day and Start Week committees with responsibility for student event planning and execution.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree preferred
2-4 years of experience in event planning, student activities, leadership and/or Programming
Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational, analytical, decision-making and administrative skills
Must understand the correlation between student involvement and student retention
Some weekends and evenings are required
Prior experience and strong skills in a collaborative work environment
Reasonable accommodations may be requested and reviewed according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
