Coordinator Of Campus And Community Engagement

Centenary College of Louisiana invites applications for the Coordinator for Campus and Community Engagement. The Coordinator will implement collaborative and integrated programming with a combined focus on student success and community engagement. The Coordinator will promote service learning and community awareness by connecting students to learning opportunities that help define their values and professional goals.

Responsibilities of the Coordinator include:

• Plans, promotes, and manages events and programming for the Learning Commons (a group of co-located academic resource offices).

• Works collaboratively to create opportunities to build community on campus and promote academic success.

• Identifies community partners for students to complete service-learning projects.

• Works with faculty and staff to facilitate community engaged learning including assisting with student service-learning hours, projects, and/or sites.

• Aids with management of the Learning Commons budget, facilities, and resources.

• Helps promote the work of the Learning Commons on campus and in the community.

• Maintains records, including business and financial records, student records, and program review and reports.

• Assists in greeting visitors, students, faculty, and staff, as well as managing questions about Learning Commons programs and resources.

• Teaches "Learning through Community" (TREK 153).

A Master's degree in a relevant field is preferred. In addition, preference will be given to candidates with experience with service-learning, campus engagement, and/or experiential learning and/or experience with a selective, residential liberal arts college. The successful candidate can begin immediately, but no later than August 2024.

Centenary College of Louisiana is a selective, residential, national liberal arts college. Centenary's beautiful campus in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood is home to a community of faculty, staff, and students who encourage each other to think critically, care deeply, and achieve more. Centenary is Louisiana's only U.S. News & World Report Top National Liberal Arts College and is ranked as one of Princeton Review's "Best 388 Colleges." The College is located in the Shreveport-Bossier City metroplex in NW Louisiana which boasts a rich cultural heritage and easy access to other major cities in the South. Centenary offers excellent benefits including comprehensive insurance options, retirement matching, free on campus benefits including membership to the campus fitness center and entry to all athletic and performance events, and annual support for professional development.

Centenary recognizes that diversity is essential to its goal of providing an educational environment where students explore the unfamiliar, invent new approaches to understanding, and connect their work and lives to the world at large. We thus encourage applicants who would add to the College's diversity of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and cultural backgrounds. Women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. EOE.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a letter of application, resume or curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts from all institutions of higher education, and the names and contact information for three references. Candidate materials should address experience and/or commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and to advancing the College's commitment to diversity. Official transcripts, letters of recommendation, and a background check are required before a candidate can be hired.

To apply, send application materials to hr@centenary.edu or:

Centenary College of Louisiana

Attention: Human resources

2911 Centenary Boulevard

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

Email: hr@centenary.edu

Fax: 318.869.5281

Founded in 1825, Centenary College is the oldest chartered liberal arts college west of the Mississippi River, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, and is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South.