Job Details

The Assistant Director of Programming (ADPRO) reports to the Vice President for Humanism (VP-OH). The Assistant Director serves as a key member of the Office of Humanism, assists, and supports the Vice-President in successfully operationalizing the Office of Humanism mission, vision, and strategic actions. The Assistant Director will collaboratively develop, establish, and implement an annual calendar of cultural programming and signature events for the university community that educates, informs, and celebrates humanism, identities, and cultures at WesternU.

The Assistant Director will create periodic, inclusive opportunities and events for all members of the university community to enhance intercultural learning, and relations that actualize WesternUs commitment to humanism. The Assistant Director will initiate and sustain professional, advisory partnerships and supportive relationships with students and student leaders from all cultural and identity focused organizations at WesternU. The Assistant Director will be primarily responsible for all daily operations and programming in the Center for Humanism. The Assistant Director will actively engage in establishing the Center as a student-centric emergent space to meet, learn, educate, build community and experience well-being. The Assistant Director interacts and engages with surrounding communities and community organizations to develop professional relationships, participate in, represent, liaise, coordinate, and lead collaborative activities on behalf of the Office of Humanism.

The Assistant Director must be able to demonstrate and sustain the following skills, capacities, competencies, and knowledge for performing the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using any relevant, alternative combinations of the same.

1. Comprehensive operations and program management knowledge and competence, including project planning, implementation, execution, assessment, resource setup, management, tracking, and reporting.

2. Comprehensive event management knowledge and competence, including event planning, promotion, execution, evaluation, and reporting. Knowledge of compliance requirements for events including ADA, COVID precautions and Protection of Minors policies.

3. Knowledge of student development principles and practices relevant to humanistic practices, cultures, identities, and backgrounds in higher education.

4. General management competence for multiple, overlapping projects, events, and initiatives requiring coordination with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

5. Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, and cross-cultural communication skills, and capacity to interact effectively, inclusively, and equitably, with various groups of people including administration, faculty, staff, students, and with the external community.

6. Collaborative skills and capacity for working as a part of a team in a higher education environment.

- Bachelors Degree in a relevant field.
- 1-3 years of experience in cultural event/program management and Cultural Center operations at an institution of higher education.

- Masters Degree in a relevant field.
- 3-5 years of experience in cultural event/program management and Cultural Center operations at an institution of higher education and or in a health science academic setting preferred.