Furman University
Program Coordinator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, us, 29610
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**Once submitted, you will not be able to edit your application** other than to change your contact information.If you have any questions or need additional assistance, please contact the Office of Human Resources via email at recruitment@furman.edu or by calling 864-294-3103.**Job Title:**Program Coordinator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies**Job Family:**Professionals**Full-Time/Part-Time:**Full time**Compensation Grade:**5S**Pay Type:**Salary**Department:**Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies**Job Summary:**In the last three years, the WGSS Program at Furman has more than tripled in size. In this context, the WGSS program at Furman University seeks a program coordinator to help sustain and expand current program support in line with the WGSS Director’s vision. As WGSS transitions from a program to a department, the program coordinator will serve as a vigorous advocate and ambassador of the program, professionally interact with students and faculty on a daily basis during the academic year, and provide daily administrative support and communications for internal and external-facing events and operations, planning and logistics as well as fundraising and budget management. The coordinator will assist the Director in sustaining effective collaborations and relationships with other Furman departments, institutes, committees, student organizations, alumni, and external university partners.**Job Description:****Primary Responsibilities:**• Serve in ambassadorial and student-facing role as first point of contact and referral for the WGSS Program, including prospective and current students, faculty, alumni, community members, and others• Increase visibility of decentralized but rapidly growing WGSS program by consistently staffing an open, inclusive physical space to serve as a WGSS “home” on campus where members of the community can easily find a WGSS representative• Help identify, research and maintain communication and positive relationships with Furman WGSS alumni, keeping up-to-date records that reflect these relationships• Provide logistical support for LGBTQ+ Alumni Council, as needed• Provide logistical support for WGSS speaker series, including working with multiple departments, scheduling and coordinating itineraries of visiting speakers. Such duties may include researching and booking flights, hotel, meals, class visits, ground transportation, reserving rooms, assisting with AV needs, catering, designing and disseminating advertising• In collaboration with professors, organize and host study breaks and drop in hours in WGSS office for students• Work with third-parties to organize WGSS service/volunteer days each academic year• Maintain and continually expand records of WGSS-related internships, jobs and master’s programs for student consultation• Conduct exit interviews for graduating seniors, documenting and comparing trends over time• Purchase, maintain inventory, and disseminate attractive WGSS branding across multiple platforms as needed, with the potential to create new logos, t-shirts, thank you notes, etc. in the future• Support program budget management by keeping accurate and up-to-date records of program expenditures, making and reconciling purchases as needed, creating invoices, travel-related reporting and ensuring accurate payments of honoraria to speakers and partnering programs through Workday• Organize and publicize special events as needed, such as benefit concerts, archive openings, student trips to regional conferences, and special fundraisers• Potentially help plan and coordinate logistics for a regional WGSS conference at Furman• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director in support of the goals and objectives of the WGSS Program as they evolve, potentially including helping to organize job searches and campus visits of future faculty• Assist in identifying potential donors through analysis of alumni data and discussions with WGSS faculty• Assist in analyzing enrollment data to identify patterns among past and present students who enroll in WGSS courses• Assist in coordinating needs and responding to questions of over two dozen faculty across at least 13 departments and over forty students• Assist in promoting the teaching of WGSS-elective courses across campus, as well as communicating necessary procedures and requirements to interested faculty• Assist in developing plans for education and outreach of students and parents unfamiliar with WGSS programs• Assist in developing modes of assessment for tracking the success of WGSS events and programming, including but not limited to creating and analyzing results of Qualtrics surveys• Collaboratively work with and assist members of the WGSS Oversight Committee Members on evolving WGSS initiatives• Maintain effective written and oral communication with students, faculty, staff, alumni, prospective employees, and other stakeholders outside the university in the service of strengthening engagement with the WGSS Program• Examples of these communications include but are not limited to timely responses to email inquiries, assisting in the creation and distribution of publicity, including event fliers, a WGSS digital newsletter published three times a year, and updates for the WGSS Program website• Ensuring accessibility standards are met in print, digital, and video resources• Maintain active WGSSatFurman Instagram account, increasing followers, creativity and relevance of posts to maintain a dynamic presence on WGSS social media accounts• Prepare annual report on WGSS activities, including graphic representation of data on enrollment numbers, attendance and feedback at events, etc.• Regularly interact with campus partners such as the Malone Center for Career Engagement, the Office of Alumni Relations, Office of Communications, etc.
• Maintain and use multiple WGSS mailing lists, including oversight committee members, affiliated faculty, minors, majors, interested students and alumnicorrespondence with affiliate WGSS faculty and members of the WGSS oversight committee• Assist in creating and maintaining organized written records of WGSS program history, practices and policies, including taking notes at all meetings, documenting the evolution of the program, actions of the oversight committee, course approval processes, attendance at events, etc.• Assist in researching and collating information for founding governance documents as needed for transition from program to department, as needed• Assist in scheduling meetings and maintaining Director and Department calendars• Assist in conception and implementation of future initiatives that will enhance student engagement and provide curricular and extracurricular support for WGSS• Assist in identifying applicable grants and funding opportunities• Assist in the preparation of grant applications and reporting requirements, as needed• Assist in representing the WGSS Program at signature events such as Fall for Furman, Furman Showcase, homecoming, and summer orientation, #J-18808-Ljbffr
This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching philosophy, etc. Please wait for all documents to finish uploading before clicking Next.* If the process times out you will lose your progress, so please ensure you have **all** necessary documents available before starting.* The drop-down lists only display so many options: please type into a drop-down list to search for your option. For example: in Field of Study, you may need to enter your field name. If you have no field, type "None."* If you have previously applied, make sure your information is current as you can transfer it to another application.* Prior to submitting your application, verify all information for accuracy and ensure you have uploaded all appropriate documents.
**Once submitted, you will not be able to edit your application** other than to change your contact information.If you have any questions or need additional assistance, please contact the Office of Human Resources via email at recruitment@furman.edu or by calling 864-294-3103.**Job Title:**Program Coordinator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies**Job Family:**Professionals**Full-Time/Part-Time:**Full time**Compensation Grade:**5S**Pay Type:**Salary**Department:**Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies**Job Summary:**In the last three years, the WGSS Program at Furman has more than tripled in size. In this context, the WGSS program at Furman University seeks a program coordinator to help sustain and expand current program support in line with the WGSS Director’s vision. As WGSS transitions from a program to a department, the program coordinator will serve as a vigorous advocate and ambassador of the program, professionally interact with students and faculty on a daily basis during the academic year, and provide daily administrative support and communications for internal and external-facing events and operations, planning and logistics as well as fundraising and budget management. The coordinator will assist the Director in sustaining effective collaborations and relationships with other Furman departments, institutes, committees, student organizations, alumni, and external university partners.**Job Description:****Primary Responsibilities:**• Serve in ambassadorial and student-facing role as first point of contact and referral for the WGSS Program, including prospective and current students, faculty, alumni, community members, and others• Increase visibility of decentralized but rapidly growing WGSS program by consistently staffing an open, inclusive physical space to serve as a WGSS “home” on campus where members of the community can easily find a WGSS representative• Help identify, research and maintain communication and positive relationships with Furman WGSS alumni, keeping up-to-date records that reflect these relationships• Provide logistical support for LGBTQ+ Alumni Council, as needed• Provide logistical support for WGSS speaker series, including working with multiple departments, scheduling and coordinating itineraries of visiting speakers. Such duties may include researching and booking flights, hotel, meals, class visits, ground transportation, reserving rooms, assisting with AV needs, catering, designing and disseminating advertising• In collaboration with professors, organize and host study breaks and drop in hours in WGSS office for students• Work with third-parties to organize WGSS service/volunteer days each academic year• Maintain and continually expand records of WGSS-related internships, jobs and master’s programs for student consultation• Conduct exit interviews for graduating seniors, documenting and comparing trends over time• Purchase, maintain inventory, and disseminate attractive WGSS branding across multiple platforms as needed, with the potential to create new logos, t-shirts, thank you notes, etc. in the future• Support program budget management by keeping accurate and up-to-date records of program expenditures, making and reconciling purchases as needed, creating invoices, travel-related reporting and ensuring accurate payments of honoraria to speakers and partnering programs through Workday• Organize and publicize special events as needed, such as benefit concerts, archive openings, student trips to regional conferences, and special fundraisers• Potentially help plan and coordinate logistics for a regional WGSS conference at Furman• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director in support of the goals and objectives of the WGSS Program as they evolve, potentially including helping to organize job searches and campus visits of future faculty• Assist in identifying potential donors through analysis of alumni data and discussions with WGSS faculty• Assist in analyzing enrollment data to identify patterns among past and present students who enroll in WGSS courses• Assist in coordinating needs and responding to questions of over two dozen faculty across at least 13 departments and over forty students• Assist in promoting the teaching of WGSS-elective courses across campus, as well as communicating necessary procedures and requirements to interested faculty• Assist in developing plans for education and outreach of students and parents unfamiliar with WGSS programs• Assist in developing modes of assessment for tracking the success of WGSS events and programming, including but not limited to creating and analyzing results of Qualtrics surveys• Collaboratively work with and assist members of the WGSS Oversight Committee Members on evolving WGSS initiatives• Maintain effective written and oral communication with students, faculty, staff, alumni, prospective employees, and other stakeholders outside the university in the service of strengthening engagement with the WGSS Program• Examples of these communications include but are not limited to timely responses to email inquiries, assisting in the creation and distribution of publicity, including event fliers, a WGSS digital newsletter published three times a year, and updates for the WGSS Program website• Ensuring accessibility standards are met in print, digital, and video resources• Maintain active WGSSatFurman Instagram account, increasing followers, creativity and relevance of posts to maintain a dynamic presence on WGSS social media accounts• Prepare annual report on WGSS activities, including graphic representation of data on enrollment numbers, attendance and feedback at events, etc.• Regularly interact with campus partners such as the Malone Center for Career Engagement, the Office of Alumni Relations, Office of Communications, etc.
• Maintain and use multiple WGSS mailing lists, including oversight committee members, affiliated faculty, minors, majors, interested students and alumnicorrespondence with affiliate WGSS faculty and members of the WGSS oversight committee• Assist in creating and maintaining organized written records of WGSS program history, practices and policies, including taking notes at all meetings, documenting the evolution of the program, actions of the oversight committee, course approval processes, attendance at events, etc.• Assist in researching and collating information for founding governance documents as needed for transition from program to department, as needed• Assist in scheduling meetings and maintaining Director and Department calendars• Assist in conception and implementation of future initiatives that will enhance student engagement and provide curricular and extracurricular support for WGSS• Assist in identifying applicable grants and funding opportunities• Assist in the preparation of grant applications and reporting requirements, as needed• Assist in representing the WGSS Program at signature events such as Fall for Furman, Furman Showcase, homecoming, and summer orientation, #J-18808-Ljbffr