The Associate Director for Student Access & Achievement, reporting to the Associate Provost for Student Success, is part of a dynamic team committed to holistic student success. The person in this role will deliver a world-class experience to help students reach their highest academic potential and to think, reflect and dream aspirationally. The Associate Director supports emerging and strategic priorities, and collaborates with cross-campus partners to help empower and amplify students, and to connect them with opportunities and resources that help them achieve. The Office of Student Success and Academic Advising is committed to a community of excellence, seeking team members whose work incorporates a global perspective and a demonstrated commitment to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.
Essential Functions:
Essential Functions:
- Lead the revitalization, delivery, organization, and supervision of competitive fellowships program, including but not limited to the Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, and Beinecke. Develop early cultivation programming and partnerships, working within the Dickinson Community to identify prospective applicants and generate reflective applications and nominations.
- As a part of a robust student experience, Dickinson will deliver alumni mentoring opportunities that are available to every student. Work collaboratively with campus partners to build, foster, amplify, and sustain strategic alumni mentoring programming and opportunities focused on academic, career, identity and affinity-based areas of focus.
- Cultivate Dickinson’s Articulation Agreements for graduate study with partner institutions, working to recruit interest, support applicants, and build strong bridges with over a dozen graduate linkage agreements across the globe.
- Advise Trendsetters, Dickinson’s first-generation college student organization, as we cultivate a sense of belonging and support for students who are the first in their family to attend college. Meet weekly with Trendsetters executive board members to provide guidance and support as they plan and organize events such as alumni speaker series, resource engagement, service projects, and social/educational activities. Encourage executive board leadership through active participation in the planning and execution of events.
- Assist a caseload of approximately 15 transfer and undeclared students, and also assist with walk-in appointments.
Master’s Degree
5-8 years Experience
