POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT — 6/19/09

 

Director of Service Leadership Programs

 

Defiance College has an immediate opening for a Director of Service Leadership Programs in the College’s McMaster School for Advancing Humanity.  The School serves as a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary, community-based work by creating and supporting opportunities for teams of faculty, students, and staff to use their academic and professional skills to address community needs.  The Director will be responsible for promoting community involvement and engagement across campus and will have primary responsibility for developing, maintaining, and overseeing the Bonner Leader and Citizen Leader Programs.  The Director will work with Admissions for the recruitment of eligible students into these programs, work with the students in these cohort programs throughout their time at Defiance College, and represent the programs on campus, within the larger Defiance community, and at regional and national events.  Responsibilities will also include supervising an Americorps VISTA Representative and administering VISTA program requirements; promoting local and national service opportunities; organizing and leading student learning communities and traveling with students both domestically and internationally; and working with faculty to develop service-learning opportunities. 

 

If you possess a passion for linking higher education to community needs and working with undergraduate students to promote scholarship and service as well as have an understanding and appreciation of diversity, we would encourage you to consider this opportunity.  Candidates must possess bachelor’s degree and have relevant higher education experience; masters strongly preferred.  To apply, send letter of application and resume including four professional references to:  Director of Human Resources, Defiance College, 701 N. Clinton, Defiance, OH  43512 or e-mail mburkholder@defiance.edu.  To ensure full consideration, applicants are encouraged to submit materials prior to July 8, 2009.  Defiance College is committed to the diversity of faculty, staff and students.  Applicants who will enrich the diversity of our campus are especially encouraged to apply.

 

Defiance College, chartered in 1850, has been has been nationally recognized for its successful efforts to implement a model of civic engagement and service learning.  Defiance College has been named for three consecutive years to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, was named as one of 81 colleges and universities in the Princeton Review’s Colleges With a Conscience publication, and recently received Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation.  Defiance College is listed among the top tier of baccalaureate colleges in the Midwest in the 2008 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges.  Our Vision creates an educational experience of engagement encompassing civic, cultural, and academic dimensions.  The campus is located in the city of Defiance in northwest Ohio and is an independent, coeducational, liberal arts institution affiliated with the United Church of Christ.