Assistant Director, Student Involvement and Development

Position Title: Assistant Director, Student Involvement and Development

Department: Student Involvement & Development

Advertised Pay: Mid $50,000's

Campus Location: Washburn University

Application Deadline:  Application review will begin as applications are received and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants can be assured of full consideration if submitted by November 28, 2025.

Position Summary: The Assistant Director, Student Involvement and Development is responsible for supporting the Director in identifying, planning, and directing the Office of Student Involvement and Development (OSID) activities. The Assistant Director is accountable for applying knowledge and understanding of student development theory and student organization policy to support the OSID's work to provide leadership opportunities, training, and support for student organizations, student leaders, and advisors.

About Washburn University: Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of over 5,500 undergraduate, graduate, and law students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
• Provide administrative support and resources to strengthen the Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) community and serve as a liaison between the University and the fraternity and sorority organizations. Offer advisory support to fraternities and sororities related to various program areas, such as new member education, scholarship, and social service programming, to promote organizational success and ensure departmental advising and assistance responsibilities are met.
• Develop and present training for student organizations to learn how to lead, plan events and operate within University policies. Provide oversight of the Student Organization platform. Provide technical assistance in support of training for student organizations. Answer questions and offer recommendations regarding processes and requirements to assist students and organizations in registering student organizations with the Office of Student Involvement and Development and other student organization policy areas to ensure University policy compliance.
• Complete financial documents to report expenditures for assigned travel, activities, and events. Compile and prepare financial reports to track the FSL budget and to inform the Director.
• Define and evaluate desired outcomes of the academic and non-academic learning experience for the FSL Community to serve as a basis for planning, enhancing, and reporting FSL and other campus-based programming at Washburn University.
• Compile, assess, and maintain information related to undergraduate perceptions of the experience as a member of the FSL community, statistics on membership recruitment, FSL grades, and other information to assess student engagement for all student organizations at Washburn.
• Performs additional job-related duties as assigned or as appropriate.

Non-Essential Functions:
• Serve on committees as assigned or as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:
• A master’s degree in college student personnel, public administration, higher education administration, or a similar area of study by the end of the semester of hire, and one to two years of post-undergraduate full-time professional experience working with post-secondary students in the planning and execution of student events/programs/activities. (Graduate work experience may be prorated to count towards the full-time experience requirement.)
• Knowledge of Greek Letter organizations, national and regional trends, policies, procedures, governance, organizational development, and recruitment processes.
• Program and event planning experience.
• Experience developing/implementing unique and innovative initiatives to cultivate student belonging and engagement.
• Proven effective interpersonal, communication, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently.
• Demonstrated effective computer skills with the ability to learn new software programs.
• Capable of presenting to large audiences for training, marketing or recognition purposes.

Physical Requirements:
• Ability to attend evening and weekend activities to provide support and assistance to student groups.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with social Greek letter organizations in either an advisory or leadership capacity.
• Experience supporting College Panhellenic Council recruitment.
• Experience building assessment tools and/or analyzing assessment data.
• Graphic Design for marketing and promotional materials.
• Strategic planning experience.

Exempt, Full-time, Varies   
Background Check Required