The Assistant/Associate Director of Orientation and Engagement position is an exciting opportunity to work closely with student leaders to create a vibrant community that welcomes and develops students throughout their first year. This position coordinates a holistic orientation, support services, and programming for first-year students, transfer students, and parents and families, and creates and implements activities in collaboration with the Student Activities Center.

On-campus housing may be available as this is a live-on optional position with optional on-call emergency response.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and implement first-year orientation programs, which includes partnerships with admissions to execute Knight U, Bellarmine's summer advising program, lead and implement Week of Welcome, Bellarmine's fall orientation program, and oversee Transfer Orientation.
• Coordinate the training, selection, and evaluation of a 7-member student leadership team and 80 high-energy student Week of Welcome (WOW) leaders.
• Support and train KnightU student leaders to welcome the newest students to campus during summer the academic orientation program.
• Create and maintain Knights Essentials online summer modules focused on transitioning incoming first-year students to college life.
• Develop and implement ongoing programming and support initiatives for transfer students.
• Coordinate and implement Family Weekend, through on and off campus event planning, athletic event advertisement and marketing .
• Manage family social media communications, including but not limited to Parent and Families Instagram and Facebook.
• Facilitate the yearly Common Leadership Application, an annual student leader application that brings together 10-15 campus leadership roles, into one application.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate ongoing student activities and programs designed to engage and build community and sense of belonging.
• Serve as a Student Activities Office team member, supporting campus programming and student engagement initiatives.
• Create and distribute assessments for the Student Activities Center, including but not limited to the first-year survey, transfer student survey, parent and family survey and homecoming survey.
• Serve on the student success task force and assist with first-year retention and success initiatives.
• Supervise Graduate student assistant.
• Plan and implement Senior Week activities and support collaboration and scheduling across campus events.
• Serve on divisional and institutional committees related .
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• A Bachelor's degree is required and a Master's degree in Higher Education/ Student Affairs, Counseling or related field is preferred.
• Experience with orientation, campus programming, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to work with diverse constituencies, knowledge of principles of student development, and a strong student-centered philosophy is preferred.
• Ability to manage and motivate students and develop programs is essential as is a personal demeanor that inspires excellence and collaboration.

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About Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of nearly 4,000 students, and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 382 Colleges, is one of the top 15 Southern regional universities in U.S. News and World Report's 2018 college rankings, and is a top university in Forbes' list of America's best colleges. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world. Bellarmine is located on a scenic 175-acre campus in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, KY, which Glassdoor recently recognized one of the nation's top 10 cities where pay goes the furthest, and National Geographic calls it a top 10 food city. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 1...0 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population. Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply. Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

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