Student Job: Student Program Coordinator (old)

Essential Functions:

Student Unions & Activities (SUA) Student Group Services intends to further the cultural, educational, advising and resources of student groups and campus community through providing both synchronous and asynchronous training programs. The SUA Student Group Services intends to develop program planning skills, leadership experience, and interpersonal development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the planning, implementing and execution of Student Group Services trainings programming using Asana
• Manage overall Student Group Services master calendar of trainings.
• Manage, track, and recruit student group and departmental partnerships
• Develop promotional strategies and materials catered to student groups trainings
• Complete monthly tracking and reporting, including but not limited to material development, departmental partnership information, and student participation
• Provide feedback on marketing assets with Student Unions & Activities Marketing department
• Research events and best practices happening on campus, in local communities, and at other institutions to inform programming decisions
• Help promote and represent SUA Student Group Services to University constituents
• Other duties as assigned

Opportunities for Skill Development on the Job:

Students participate in experiences outside the classroom, which allow them to develop and demonstrate life skills. The Office for Student Affairs has developed seven Student Development Outcomes that the Student Unions & Activities has incorporated into the student leadership positions in the Unions. Here is a listing of the Student Development Outcomes with some examples of how you can learn or further develop your own skill set.

Responsibility/Accountability

• Actively supports policies in daily job and confronts policy violations
• Attends and contributes to all scheduled meetings and skill building sessions suggesting future agenda items and topics
• Takes on a leadership role among co-workers and is comfortable training in new employees and volunteers

Independence/Interdependence

• Develops and shares new ideas and initiatives with supervisor and co-workers that will improve work area
• Communicates effectively with supervisors; keeps supervisor informed and uses good judgment on when to defer questions, complaints, and issues
• Works effectively with co-workers in teams and independently

Goal Orientation

• Seeks alternative ways to finish tasks in a more efficient manner
• Can prioritize tasks by importance and time constraints
• Takes on additional tasks and duties without any direction from supervisor

Self-Awareness

• Uses personal strengths to help unit meet departmental goals
• Can adapt communication style and strategies to meet the communication needs of others
• Consistently demonstrates professionalism and acts as a positive role model for coworkers and customers

Resilience

• Effectively handles last minute changes to tasks and can efficiently work under time constraints
• Uses bad experiences to proactively find ways to prevent them from happening in the future
• Adapts behavior in response to instruction and constructive criticism from supervisor

Appreciation of Differences

• Role models respectful behavior toward all customers, peers and supervisor and expects same behavior from others
• Seeks opportunities to learn from others who have different backgrounds
• Understands differences in customers and peers and treats everyone respectfully

Tolerance of Ambiguity

• Creates new and challenging initiatives for work area
• Embraces a task without assurance of success or certainty about the outcome
• Able to undertake a project with little or no direction and seek out information independently of supervisor

*The employer reserves the right to change or add duties to this position as long as the changes and/or additions are consistent with the job classification.