Director of Student Equity and Community Development

Sackville, NB

This is an exciting new position in Mount Allison Student Affairs, with a focus on student community education and development around equity, mutual respect and support, conflict resolution, and preventive and restorative student conduct management. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape sector-leading approaches, grounded in educational values, with a focus on reducing systemic and personal barriers to student success.  

This position will report to the Vice President Student Affairs, and will provide oversight, championship and strategic direction for equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and anti-racism work in the portfolio and with students. This will include coordinating campus-wide education in areas focusing on equity and inclusion, antiracism, decolonization, bystander intervention, dis/ability support, conflict and alternative dispute resolution, sexual violence prevention, hazing prevention, and other programs to raise campus capacity for inclusion and student support.  

The position will also oversee fulltime and part-time positions providing specific student support for equity-deserving student populations, including multifaith and Indigenous, and developing and maintaining a roster of contract equity advisors to meet equity-deserving students’ needs. Taking an equity-focused, preventive and restorative lens to student behaviour, the position will also oversee student conduct and sexualized violence support and response.   

This position is an opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment with students, student groups, faculty and staff, to develop highly innovative and supportive practices for student success.  

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