Bowdoin College Hiring for Assistant Director – McKeen Center for the Common Good at Brunswick, Maine Full Time

Assistant Director – McKeen Center for the Common Good

Posting Number S01112JP

Department McKeen Center for the Common Good

Job Summary

The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to discover the ways in which their talents, passions, and academic pursuits can be cultivated for the benefit of society through public engagement. The Assistant Director assists a diverse population of students in connecting with communities locally, nationally, and internationally through volunteer programs designed to impact communities while providing students with the educational background necessary to inform their service. This individual oversees and provides leadership training for the Alternative Breaks program, as well as Common Good Project Teams and the Community Immersion Orientation program.

The Alternative Breaks program offers a week-long, intensive experience for students to learn about significant social and environmental issues through education, engagement, and action over spring break. The Assistant Director oversees all aspects of the program, including trip, leader, and participant selection, leader training, all trip logistics, and post-trip reflection. Community Immersion Orientation Trip programming is offered annually in August to introduce incoming first-year students to Maine’s communities, histories, and challenges. The Assistant Director is tasked with communicating with community partners, training trip leaders, and coordinating trip logistics for 15 student-led groups, as well as supervising a full-time student employee over the summer to prepare for this program.

The Assistant Director will also bring vision and a strategic mindset to one of our newest programs, Common Good Project Teams, which coordinates groups of students for one-time volunteer projects with local community partners.Complementing the Common Good Project Teams program, the Assistant Director will be responsible for advising 2-3 student-led volunteering groups in the Bowdoin Volunteer Corps that align in topic or frequency of opportunity with Common Good Project Teams.

In addition, the assistant director will be a key thought partner in the ways that antiracism and social justice intersect with community engagement and the common good. The assistant director will lead conversations around these topics and will be expected to incorporate issues and topics of social justice and anti-oppression into all the programs and work they do with students and the Center.

McKeen Center programming provides students with the knowledge and skills to examine, question, and address the challenges facing communities locally and throughout the world. Our commitment to the common good includes exploration of power, privilege, and social justice and the assistant director must demonstrate the ability to incorporate discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the programming they oversee.

The start date for this position is expected to be on or after August 1, 2023.

Salary range for this position is expected to be: Minimum $50,000 – Maximum $60,000

Education/Skills Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• The Assistant Director must demonstrate a commitment to working closely with a multicultural population of undergraduates and demonstrate multicultural competence and the ability to help students explore their own identities (e.g. race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.) in the context of community engagement

• Be able to work independently and as a part of a team

• Be collaborative and well organized

• Demonstrate initiative and exercise sound judgment

• Enjoy working with community members and leaders of social service and civic agencies and schools.

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills are required.

  Experience Requirements and/or Equivalents

• Experience with the principles and practice of ethical and effective community service, leadership, and community-engaged learning

• Experience in higher education, and/or with alternative breaks or community immersion programming is a plus.

  Standard Work Days and Hours

This is an 11-month position with the expectation of approximately 40 hours/week taking place Monday-Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., plus one evening per week throughout the academic year. Additional evening and weekend work is occasionally required.

This is an exempt position requiring the time commitment necessary to satisfactorily complete job requirements.

About Bowdoin

Bowdoin embraces diversity in all forms, and the College is home to talented students, faculty and staff—with a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; religious beliefs; and gender identities, among other factors.

We encourage applications from candidates committed to the support of an inclusive campus community and those who will enrich and contribute to the College’s multifaceted diversity. We value a community in which individuals of all backgrounds are warmly welcomed and encouraged to succeed.

Founded in 1794, Bowdoin has maintained its commitment to the liberal arts for well over 200 years. Bowdoin’s reputation as a preeminent liberal arts college rests on the excellence of its faculty, students, and staff; intimate size; strong sense of community; and connections to the people, history, and natural beauty of Maine.

Bowdoin’s campus is situated in a beautiful natural setting. Located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000, the College is a short drive from the Maine coast, twenty-five miles from Portland and 120 miles from Boston.

Shift N/A

Employment Category Full Time Year Round

FTE 0.92

Benefits Eligible

Pay Type Salaried

Background Check Package Requirements Faculty/Administrative

Is driving a vehicle (e.g. Bowdoin vehicle or off road vehicle, rental car, personal car) an essential function of this job? No

Is a pre-placement physical required for this position? No

Posting Date 04/07/2023

Applications Accepted Until

Open Until Filled No

Type of Posting Internal/External

Special Instructions to Applicants

EEO Information

Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses.

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