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Coordinator, Center for Peace & Conflict Studies

Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

  • Reflects the diversity of our community

  • Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

  • Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

  • Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

  • Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

  • Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Coordinator, Center for Peace & Conflict Studies

Job Description Summary:

Reports to and works with the Director of the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies (PACS) to develop, schedule, implement, deliver, and evaluate academic, workforce-development, and community programs. Oversees and coordinates the Center’s Annual Peace & Conflict Studies’ Spring Symposium, and the Center’s other ongoing programming. Works with the Center Director in creating new partnerships with universities, schools, and organizations in the community in alignment with the college's strategic plan “to advance diversity, inclusiveness, equity, and social justice through internal and external communication, collaboration, and practices” (Goal #1, Objective #5).

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1. Coordinates all aspects of the PACS Annual Spring Symposium from conception to execution; reserving the venue, recruiting the keynote speaker, panelists, moderators, community organizations, performances, and student art exhibition, volunteer staffing of the event, as well as managing registration, catering, and the production and dissemination of related publicity/promotional materials.

  • Works with faculty and students from across the disciplines to integrate the symposium’s theme into their fall and spring curricula via a PACS-curated reading list, film series, and/or other related events scheduled throughout the year culminating in the spring symposium.

2. Assists Director with the development, implementation, evaluation and coordination of:

  • New revenue-generating strategic initiatives: Promotes the Center’s capacity building through resource development for mediation services such as sponsorships, grant awards, fellowships, and other financial underwriting.
  • New professional development certificates in Conflict Transformation and equity- informed mediation: Identifies, schedules, and provides learning opportunities such as workshops and other events and programs, assists with the development of distance-learning opportunities, and other program delivery models for mediation trainings, serves as instructor for conflict transformation and mediation learning opportunities and Certificates, delivering programs and presentations as needed, processes new instructor vendor paperwork, new hourly employee paperwork; ensures contractual agreements are in place for all instructors.

3. Serves as in-house brand management expert, creates and ensures a consistent look across all media that meet strategic goals, and adheres to PACS Center and ACC brand guidelines. Supervises the design and production of all PACS publications, ads, collateral materials, direct mail, and marketing materials. Manages PACS Center website, social media, databases, listservs, and e-newsletters.

4. Assists the Director to coach, manage, and coordinate assigned staff and work study students, interns, and volunteers, while adhering to organizational human resources policies and procedures as well as related employment laws.

5. Performs routine office duties including fielding correspondence, maintaining budgets, ordering supplies and equipment, maintaining files, compiling and recording students’ information, and managing other tracking systems as necessary.

6. Takes the lead in the development of annual reports.

7. Provides answers to students and the public regarding Center goals and initiatives.

8. Participates in the college’s equity and inclusion committees and task forces.

Knowledge

  • Training or certificate in conflict transformation
  • Mediation training preferably with an equity informed and/or social justice lens
  • Logistics associated with coordinating professional and volunteer development programs.
  • Mediation and conflict transformation educational service delivery, functions, and processes.
  • Special event coordination.
  • Working knowledge of social media.
  • Planning and organizing principles, practices, and methods.
  • Program evaluation models and tools, including data analysis.
  • Basic accounting and resource management principles.
  • Working knowledge of marketing and multimedia design principles and use of design software.
  • Student, faculty, and community outreach and engagement.

Skills

  • Facilitation of training in conflict transformation
  • Mediation skills preferably with an emphasis on equity/social justice
  • Effective use of organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow- through.
  • Assessing and prioritizing multiple tasks and projects.
  • Effective use of interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
  • Working and interacting with diverse groups of people in a collaborative manner.
  • Meeting facilitation and group leadership skills.
  • Maintaining an established work schedule, including some evenings and weekends.
  • Preparing reports using various software applications.
  • Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
  • Developing promotional materials to include posters, fliers, brochures, and social media.
  • Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials.
  • Gathering information from a broad range of sources.
  • Developing strong collaborative partnerships and earning trust within an organization.

Technology

  • Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
  • May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update web pages.

Required Work Experience

  • Two years related work experience.

Required Education

  • Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Education

  • Master's degree or higher in Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Psychology, Education, Public Policy, or other related discipline.

Salary Range

$49,205 - $61,506

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

May 26, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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