Req #: 238392

Department: CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Posting Date: 09/05/2024

Closing Info: Closes On 09/19/2024

Salary: $6,085 - $6,568 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf )

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) at the University of Washington invites applications for a full time Assistant Director (AD) position to perform professional level program management for the Center.

CAIIS was created to support the retention and recruitment of American Indian and Indigenous studies faculty, staff, and students. To accomplish this goal, CAIIS breaks down disciplinary and unit silos across the University of Washington’s three campuses, fosters an ecosystem of support, and unapologetically centers Native knowledge and sovereignty.

POSITION PURPOSE

The focus of the AD is to ensure the success of CAIIS programs and grants. This will be done by working with faculty, staff, and student leads of the various programs and by building relationships across campus and with Native communities to promote Native community engagement in all of our programming. The AD reports to the faculty co-directors and supervises various student positions, including student leads for Native Organization of Indigenous Scholars (NOIS), Native UW (NUW) Scholars Program, and Pathways. The position requires the ability to work flexible hours, exercise independent judgment, independently make decisions, and take on substantial responsibilities to ensure program success. The AD will also need to utilize in-depth knowledge of the programs’ accomplishments to share programming successes with CAIIS’s community and funders.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reporting (20%) - Various CAIIS funders require yearly reporting, including the Mellon Foundation and the University. The AD will work with the CAIIS Administrator and other staff to ensure funding reporting requirements and deadlines are met and that our community learns about CAIIS’s accomplishments.

• Canoe Family (20%) - a space for Native faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members to come together to support each other and expand their knowledge of and experiences with local cultures and practices around the canoe. The AD will work with American Indian Studies Program Coordinator to co-host weekly Canoe Family meetings/practices and oversee summer activities, including Canoe Journey.

• Native UW Scholars Program (10%) - a cohort-based bridge program for incoming transfer and ?rst year Native students to the University of Washington to help foster a community of Indigenous Huskies. The AD will oversee the NUW Lead Mentor, Assistant Lead Mentor, and Peer Mentors who run the yearlong programming, work with Faculty teaching the College Edge summer class, and support community engagement.

• Native Pathways Program (10%) - a partnership building initiative with two-year community colleges to create culturally relevant and timely American Indian Studies coursework, increase Native student enrollments, and to facilitate easier transfer pathways to UW. The AD will oversee the Native Higher Education Pathways Coordinator, help build relationships with two-year colleges, and facilitate the pathways work.

• Native Organization of Indigenous Scholars (NOIS) (5%) - brings together University of Washington Native and Indigenous graduate and professional students to build a supportive community in which to network, socialize and share stories/theories, conceptions of culture, knowledge, and power. The AD will oversee the Research Assistant who runs this program.

• Knowledge Families (5%) - yearlong cohorts of undergraduate students who work closely with faculty, professional staff, Indigenous community members, post-doc and/or graduate student Knowledge Facilitators to conduct collaborative and community-based projects in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. The AD will help recruit and select the knowledge families, help promote community engagement in each family, and meet with each family at least quarterly.

• Summer Institute in Indigenous Humanities (5%) - provides training and support to undergraduate students and community partners undertaking humanities research in American Indian and Indigenous Studies during the summer. The AD will help recruit faculty, students, and community engagement for this program.

• Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities (5%) - a collaboration among scholars from the University of Washington, British Columbia, Victoria, California, Hawai'i, Oregon and Utah during a week-long intensive graduate seminar focused on professionalization in Indigenous studies. The AD will help recruit students and facilitate community engagement for this program.

• American Indian and Indigenous Studies Scholars (5%) - a monthly workshop for faculty and graduate students, with the goal of supporting scholars to complete research projects that are key to their professional advancement. The AD will help recruit and select the Scholars.

• Native Knowledge at UW (5%) - a funding opportunity that can be used for a range of activities, from bringing a single guest speaker to a class to hosting large community events in community. The AD will help connect applicants to Native knowledge experts and connect these guests with our other programming, especially NUW Scholars and NOIS.

• Native Knowledge Lecturer Grants (5%) - grants to hire Temporary Part-time Lecturers to center Native knowledges in classrooms crossing disciplinary and institutional boundaries. The AD will work with departments and Native knowledge experts to encourage applications and facilitate a successful teaching experience at UW.

• qacag-ac Awards (5%) - a ?exible award available to American Indian and Indigenous studies faculty, staff, and students, to help them thrive at the UW. The AD will promote the award among faculty, staff, and students. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degrees plus three years of experience working in higher education or equivalent work experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrated experience working with American Indian and Indigenous communities.

• Demonstrated program or project-management skills and experience, including logistical support.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.

• Excellent organizational and computer skills, including fluency with the suites of Microsoft Office, Google Drive, and Web editing applications. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Program management and supervisory experience

• Masters’ degree or equivalent experience. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.