Umoja Program Regional Coordinator Director
Umoja Community Education Foundation
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Grade: $95,000 – 105,000
Reports to: Executive Director
Position Status: Full-time
Location: Sacramento, California
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Mission: Umoja is a community of educators and learners committed to the academic success, personal growth and self-actualization of African American and other students. The Umoja Community seeks to educate the whole student–body, mind and spirit. Informed by an ethic of love and its vital power, the Umoja Community will deliberately engage students as full participants in the construction of knowledge and critical thought. The Umoja Community seeks to help students experience themselves as valuable and worthy of an education.
Umoja Community is currently seeking a full-time Regional Coordinator (RC) Director to support us as we strive to meet our mission. The primary duty of the RC Director is to co-develop and implement programs and strategies for Umoja programs in the community colleges. This position directs Umoja Regional Coordinators as they support the campus-based Umoja coordinators with integral knowledge about culturally relevant pedagogy and practices, specifically designed to enhance the lives of Black, African American and other disproportionately impacted students in the community college setting. Alongside or at the direction of the Executive Director, the RC Director trains and supports Umoja coordinators, counselors, and other faculty at their work sites.
Scope
Working with Regional Coordinators, the RC Director, at the direction of the Executive Director guides the development of content experts and the development of innovative culturally grounded training strategies and materials based on research for supporting students' paths to four year-institutions. The RC Director supports and guides the development of curriculum and pedagogy where needed by coordinators and instructors teaching in a Umoja Program, oversees data collection from sites, ensures compliance regarding site level data collection, and provides context and support for analysis. Works under the direction of the Executive Director (or designee).
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and support all work plans for Umoja Regional Coordinators including their responsibilities in conducting training and research; implementing programs and providing site support; facilitating meetings, making presentations, and preparing reports;
- Oversee all programming operations and be the direct contact and supervisor of the Regional Coordinators;
- Alongside the Executive Director, trains all Umoja facilitators and assists with curriculum and content development for professional development activities;
- Oversee and provide strategic direction to the daily operations of the regions;
- Provide technical assistance to Regional Coordinators and conduct planning activities to address program needs;
- Identify partnership opportunities with colleges and initiate readiness process for identified colleges to provide future programming and gain affiliation to the Umoja Community;
- Provide support for the collection and submission of data, especially as related to Regional Coordinator site visits as well Umoja needs overall;
- Support, coordinate, document, and maintain master schedule of all Regional Coordinators’ site visits and activities;
- Ensure the timely and complete submission of monthly, site visit, and annual site visit reports;
- Monitor the workload and schedule of all Regional Coordinators ensuring the accuracy of time reports and support of coordinators and faculty practitioners;
- Prepare executive summary of budget, data, and narrative reports of Regional Coordinators;
- Prepare summary reports of monthly, site, and annual site visit reports for the leadership team and the Board of Directors;
- Serves as a backup for all Regional Coordinators on site visits, etc.;
- Serves as the lead and key contact for all prospective and readiness colleges;
- Report to the Executive Director; and,
- Other duties as required.
Supervisory Responsibility: Yes
Travel: 50%
Required Qualifications
- Master degree in African American, Africana, Ethnic, Education, Psychology, or Sociology Studies, or related field;
- 3 or more years’ experience with culturally relevant programs that serve African American and diverse students;
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in program coordination, faculty development coordination, academic counseling or instruction in a community college setting or higher educational systems;
- Supervisory: experience supervising individuals in a higher education environment;
- Experience with programmatic implementation of culturally relevant practices;
- Project management experience;
- Extensive knowledge of the African American student population with an emphasis on retention, academic achievement and matriculation;
- Excellent analytical skills, writing, project management and problem-solving abilities;
- Ability to effectively communicate both written and verbal;
- Strong attention to details;
- Demonstrated administrative and leadership skills;
- Experience in collecting, analyzing, and presenting student outcome data to inform practice;
- Familiarization with the California Community College System, preferably Umoja college-based programs;
- Demonstrated success in working with colleagues and professionals to improve outcomes for educationally disadvantaged students;
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a cultural, multi-cultural and multidisciplinary environment;
- Demonstrated success in designing and presenting; and,
- Willingness and ability to travel to regional sites and statewide training sites.
DISCLAIMER: The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job. Employees are expected to follow their supervisor’s instructions and to perform the tasks requested by their supervisors.
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