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The Student Activities Coordinator provides high level quality support for student events and clubs within Clark's School of Professional Studies (SPS).  This individual's primary responsibility is to coordinate extra/co-curricular programming for SPS students and facilitate activities for informal SPS student clubs and organizations throughout the academic year.  

Major Responsibilities:  The Student Activities Coordinator (SAC) plans and coordinates all extra and co-curricular SPS events with the assistance of SPS Peer Advisors. The SAC also serves as the primary contact for all informal SPS clubs and organizations.

The Student Activities Coordinator:

• Serves as the advisor for all informal SPS clubs and organizations
• Serves as a resource to all SPS students in event planning.
• Plans and oversees all non-academic orientation events
• Advises and oversees night and weekend events.
• Monitors the SPS events budget
• Collaborates with other Clark graduate units in developing shared events
• Evaluates and monitors the needs of the SPS student population as it relates to student life and experience
• Assists with student-facing events such as orientation, awards ceremonies, commencement activities, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in student programming and advising student groups preferred.
• Demonstrated sensitivity to the needs and concerns of a diverse student population and demonstrated ability to meet their needs.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion related to a University setting, including awareness of intercultural trends and issues facing higher education.
• Experience working with international student and adult learners.
• Effectively expresses oneself in oral and written communication.
• Displays proactive problem solving approach toward student engagement.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve high quality student engagement.
• Demonstrates a high level of self-discipline and self-motivation to accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the position.
• Responsible, dependable, organized, and detailed-oriented with demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple and competing priorities.
• Ability to discern appropriate level of communication with multiple audiences and maintain confidentiality and compliance with ADA, FERPA, SEVIS and other applicable state, federal, University and School of Professional Studies policy and guidelines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite tools.
• Flexibility with work assignments and hours that include evening and weekends.

Clark University currently requires all employees and students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Exemptions will be made for medical or disability reasons or religious beliefs, and could be made, at the sole discretion of the University, for other well-documented reasons.

Clark University embraces equal opportunity as a core value: we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, our employees and our community. This commitment applies to every aspect of education, services, and employment policies and practices at Clark. Our commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring and retention. All positions at Clark share in the responsibility for building a community that values diversity and the uniqueness of others by exhibiting integrity and respect in interacting with all members of the Clark community to create an atmosphere of fairness and belonging. We strongly encourage members from historically underrepresented communities, inclusive of all women, to apply.

Clark University offers a generous benefit package for full and, if applicable, part-time employees that include; paid time off, generous retirement plan, group health and dental insurance, life insurance, and tuition, along with use of many campus amenities. For a complete list of benefits for eligible employees visit here.

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About Clark University

Founded in 1887, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university committed toscholarship and inquiry that addresses social and human imperatives on a global basis. It is the place where Robert Goddard invented the modern rocket, where Sigmund Freud delivered his only lectures in the United States, and where current students stake their claim to the Clark motto, “Challenge Convention, Change Our World,” which is the rallying cry that inspires our community every day. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University educates its undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative effort. The University’s engages students in such areas as biology, chemistry, economics, geography, psychology, urban education, management, environmental science and policy, Holocaust and genocide studies, and international development and social change. Clark University’s pioneering model of higher education, LEEP (Liberation Education and Effective Practice) compels undergraduate students to thrive in authentic world and workplace settings, and prepares them for lives and careers of consequence.

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