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Job Summary

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

• Serve as a mentor, advocate, and resource for multicultural students.
• Assist students in developing student success action plans in individual meetings.
• Coordinate and collaborate with departments/offices across the institution to identify resources that respond to multicultural students’ social, economic, and educational needs.
• Serve as adviser/co-adviser to ethnic-specific, multicultural, and social justice student clubs and mentoring programs serving Latinx/Hispanic students
• Work with campus and community partners to develop, support, and host motivational and educational activities, workshops, programs, conferences, etc. that create a sense of community, celebrate culture/heritage authentically, enhance multicultural awareness and responsiveness, educate the college campus, and support multicultural student retention, persistence, and graduation
• Provide the campus community with opportunities to learn about and discuss social issues that focus on diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion, with the goal of expanding multicultural awareness and responsiveness
• Work closely with supervisor to contribute to college-wide committees, task forces, and other specific initiatives related to diversity, inclusivity, multicultural student retention, and success.
• Will be motivated to work independently as well as collaboratively with the Diversity and Multicultural Affairs team and other college departments as needed;
• Support current programs relevant to multicultural student access, retention, and graduation
• Maintain paper and electronic student files; ensure confidentiality of student records;
• Collect quantitative and qualitative data on how underrepresented students progress and interact with SLCC’s campus climate.
• Evaluate and identify trends, recommendations, or areas for improvement in the delivery of services to students.
• Keep abreast of best practices to enhance the persistence, retention, and success of multicultural students.
• Connect with Latinx/Hispanic agencies and organizations to cultivate partnerships that support multicultural student access, retention, and success.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Have a bachelor’s degree, preferably in education, educational psychology, sociology, communications, ethnic studies, or another related field.
2. Two-to-four years of full-time, direct paid professional experience. Candidates can trade education for experience at a 2:1 ratio (i.e., 2 years of post-baccalaureate education for 1 year of full-time experience). Part-time experience may be substituted on a prorated basis.

Preferred Qualifications

1. A master’s degree in a related field.
2. The ability to communicate in Spanish and a keen awareness of the Hispanic or Latino/a/x student experience.
3. Experience working in higher education, particularly in two-year

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Communicate effectively (in writing and verbally) with individuals with diverse cultures, cultural backgrounds and abilities.
• Provide excellent customer service and when necessary provide one-on-one consultations.
• Work collaboratively with others in the ODMA team, as well as our campus and community partners.
• Have the ability to work both independently and with a team.
• Determine the needs of underrepresented students and connect students to interventions or services to meet those needs.
• Possess a working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Outlook.
• Be detail-oriented and have the ability to multi-task, prioritize assignments, and carry projects to completion.
• Have knowledge of and sensitivity to the needs of students from diverse backgrounds, especially those populations that have been historically underrepresented in higher education.
• Advocate for all students with an emphasis on Hispanic/Latinx students.
• Possess strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Learn quickly, work well under pressure, and work ethically with confidential information.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of diverse people, ability, culture, and ethnic background, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups in a diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic background of community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

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