The Director of the Center for Student Engagement promotes student involvement and furthers community on campus while linking academic life with co-curricular engagement. This position represents student co-curricular involvement as an institutional priority in a variety of contexts, supervises the access to, and allocation of student organization benefits, works with faculty and student advisory boards and advises students. The Director provides strategic leadership and management of a department of nine full-time program staff members, three part-time graduate assistants, and several student staff members. Professional staff on this team provide advising, program development and administrative support to over 250 student groups. Content areas include Student Organizations, Outdoor Education, Debate, New Student Orientation, Student Media, Student Government, Club Sports, the Georgetown Program Board, transition programs, and campus leadership programs. The Director is responsible for overseeing budgets, operations, administrative management, and assessment of a wide variety of student-engagement programs. The Director convenes groups of peers and staff across the university to coordinate and standardize student engagement strategies across schools, departments and programs, in both curricular and co-curricular units. This person is expected to set and uphold exemplary standards of practice for advising students, developing student leadership values and skills, innovating programs and services, and engaging a wide-variety of stakeholders in the support for co-curricular learning.
This position reports to the Senior Associate Vice President for Student Engagement as part of the Community and Identity Formation cluster within the Division of Student Affairs. Others who report to the Senior Associate Vice President are the Executive Directors of the Center for Social Justice and the Academic Resource Center, the Director of the Office of Student Conduct, the Senior Director of Student Formation, and the Director of the Military and Veteran’s Resource Center. The Director of the Center for Student Engagement attends the Student Affairs Directors’ meetings. All student activities-related functions are reviewed by this position. Directly reporting to this position are the Associate Director of Student Engagement, the Director of Outdoor Education, the Director of Orientation, Transition, and Family Engagement, and the Director of Policy Debate.