Associate Director, Student Activities (Finance)
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About Rice:
Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Texas, Rice University is ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio, and a residential college system, which supports students intellectually, emotionally and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lectures series, courses and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities.
Rice is also a wonderful place to work. Rice faculty, staff and students share values that are essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rice's culture. They come through in the way we treat each other and the welcome we extend to our visitors. These values can be recalled simply by our name - RICE - Responsibility, Integrity, Community, and Excellence.
Position Summary:
The associate director will serve as the advisor for the undergraduate student government known as the Student Association, a highly influential organization representing the student body and working closely with upper-level administration. This role will also oversee student engagement, clubs, and OwlNest, Rice's student engagement platform. The associate director also supervises two full-time staff members.
Ideal Candidate Statement:
An ideal candidate has experience managing or working with a student engagement platform, club registration, facilitating leadership programming, and budgeting. We are especially seeking candidates with experience advising a complex organization that works with student policy issues and student governance.
Workplace Requirements:
This position is offered as a hybrid role, combining both in-office and remote work to provide flexibility and support collaboration. As a heavily student-focused role, this position would work one day remotely and four days in-office during the academic year, and two days remotely and three days in-office during the summer. Per Rice policy 440 , work arrangements may be subject to change.
Hiring Range: $63,500 - $67,000 annually, contingent upon experience and qualifications.
*Exempt (salaried) positions under FLSA are not eligible for overtime .
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years' experience in areas such as:
- Student Activities
- Leadership development
- Advising high-level student organizations
- Student engagement platforms
- Budgeting
- In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education above and beyond what is required, may be substituted on an equivalent year-for-year basis.
Skills:
- Excellent oral and written communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to advise high-level student leaders in a one-on-one setting
- Ability to apply student development theories to practice
- Ability to supervise and assess staff
- Must have some exposure to student activities, leadership development, student government, supervision, and student unions/centers
- Ability to coordinate and facilitate leadership development programming
- Ability to create training programs for students and/or student organizations
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
Preferences:
- Master's degree in student personnel administration or related field
- Experience advising student government
- Supervisory experience
- Experience with club registration
- Experience planning campus-wide events
- Experience managing large budgets and reconciling expenses
- Previous collegiate-level student advising experience
- Experience working in a university setting
Essential Functions:
- Support department and area mission, vision, and goals
- Oversight of Student Activities related to all advisement of clubs, club leadership development, and financial responsibility
- Develops, updates, and enforces operating policies and procedures for Student Activities
- Supervises, sets functional area goals, and provides performance feedback and professional development for direct reports
- Manages Student Activities budget
- Serves as lead for OwlNest student engagement software (currently Anthology Engage) for campus and division use
- Advises the Student Association (SA), undergraduate student government and all of its leaders and components, related to policies, programs, student development and risk management
- Develops, plans, and implements programming and outreach for student leaders and the campus community in collaboration with team members
- Assists with general oversight for university and governmental compliance and serves as university representative in regard to policy enforcement
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Additional Functions:
- Serves as backup for direct reports' duties when necessary
- Documents and assesses area functions regularly
- Supervises the financial management for over 300 organizations in conjunction with the Accounts Specialist
- Responsible for logistics and coordinating marketing related to area(s) of responsibility
- Supports university initiatives and programming through college senators, SA committees, and New Student Representative program
- Promotes and encourages both a diversity of programs and student participation in all aspects of involvement at the University
- Manages club registration process with the assistant director of student activities
- Provides consultation and advising to support student organizations
- Occasionally, attendance at after-hours departmental events on or off campus may be required
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