The Native American Cultural Center's (NACC) mission is to champion Indigenous excellence, foster leadership development, and promote wellness. The NACC anchors events, programs, lectures, performances, meetings, and conversations around Native issues. For students, it is a place to learn, grow, relax, celebrate, meet friends, find support, get advice, and nurture community. It is home to over 400 Indigenous-identifying students representing more than 50 Native nations and island communities and is a welcoming place to others on campus and beyond.
The NACC is proud to be part of the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership (ECL), under the umbrella of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs. The Centers consist of the Asian American Activities Center, Black Community Services Center, El Centro Chicano y Latino, First Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center, Markaz Resource Center, Native American Cultural Center, Queer Student Resources, and Women’s Community Center. Each Center promotes diversity, inclusion, and respect and empowers students to thrive.
JOB PURPOSE:
Reporting to the Assistant Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community, and Integrative Learning (ICIL), the Associate Dean and Director of the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) is the chief administrator for the NACC at Stanford. The Associate Dean and Director provides strategy, vision, and direction for the center and serves as a campus partner and advocate with all sectors of the university, including faculty, senior administrators, academic departments, administrative offices, staff and alumni. The Associate Dean and Director of the NACC is the primary conduit between and among university offices and departments with particular attention to advocating for the Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Pacific Islander community, including both undergraduate and graduate students on campus.
Primary responsibilities of the Associate Dean and Director include strategic planning, assessment, and identifying the evolving needs and concerns of indigenous students and conceptualizing and implementing programs, resources and services that address these needs and concerns. The Associate Dean and Director must also be attuned to the dynamics between the individual, the institution, and the home environment of students.
This role also includes working directly with and advising students, managing and advising other professional employees, including managers, and being able to advance the needs of this community as well as a broader vision and definition of diversity, equity, leadership, and community.
CORE DUTIES:
- Provide vision and strategic direction for and manage the Center, including forecasting, planning, and managing program budgets. Develop, implement, and manage long-range budget and strategic plans. Lead strategic planning and assessment to identify and address the evolving needs and concerns of undergraduate and graduate students served by the center.
- Identify, clarify, and resolve complex, high-impact issues that span multiple university areas, using advanced technical expertise and professional knowledge that require broad discretion and judgment.
- Participate in the development and implementation of university policies to ensure student success, e.g. mental health, well-being, academic success, retention and graduation.
- Develop, analyze, oversee, and measure the effectiveness of programs and tools for the delivery of student services or programs. Conceptualize, develop, and implement quality student programs designed to promote student’s educational, social, cultural, and leadership development.
- Advise individual students on a range of issues, including but not limited to academic, personal, and organizational issues.
- Manage the work of the NACC’s career staff team, and student employees, processes, and projects, to implement the strategic goals of the unit, department, or school, including hiring/termination decisions, coaching and mentoring, training, goal setting, managing performance, compensation planning, and staffing levels.
- Manage the direction of internal administrative policy development for programs and operations. May serve as an advisor to the Assistant Vice Provost on programmatic and policy development.
- Interpret, implement and ensure compliance with university, academic and administrative policies within Student Affairs and NACC. Recommend new internal policies, guidelines and procedures. Direct process improvement.
- Represent and advocate for department programs and initiatives at senior-level meetings, conferences, and to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in Vice Provost for Student Affairs divisional meetings and development activities and complete special projects as assigned.
- Identify, manage relationships, and negotiate with external and internal partners. Collaborate with other offices to impact the quality of undergraduate and graduate student life.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education & Experience:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree and eight years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience.
Preferred
- Advanced degree is preferred
- Student affairs, academic, or work experience related to the fields of education, social work, community organizing, race & ethnic studies, counseling psychology, or other work and training in the social sciences with a focus on access and belonging.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Knowledge, understanding, and experience with Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Indigenous Pacific Islander, and Central and South American Indigenous students and communities and an ability to conceptualize, create, and implement relevant programming and advice in this area.
- Student development knowledge and experience in student affairs or within a higher education setting is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of the challenges faced by undergraduate and graduate students in a highly selective residential institution and ability to assist students in navigating this environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with and gain support from a broad and diverse array of constituents, including students, staff, faculty, alumni, parents, community members, and visitors is essential.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly and effectively communicate with internal and external audiences, campus partners, various constituents (faculty, staff, alumni, students), and with all levels of management.
- Strong analytical skills to review and analyze complex financial information.
- Strong leadership and strategic management skills.
- Demonstrated experience managing people.
- Strong computer and technology skills, including experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Docs, Zoom, Slack, or similar collaboration tools.
How to apply:
We invite you to apply by clicking on the “Apply for Job” button. To be considered, please submit your résumé and a one-page cover letter along with your online application. For full consideration, please apply by the following dates: Dec 2, 2024 for Priority review round. Jan 6, 2025 for Second review round.
