Assistant Director, Personal Misconduct; Student Conduct Specialist), Office of Student Conduct

Overview

OFFICE OF STUDENT CONDUCT (BL-SETH-IUBLA)

The Office of Student Life is focused on building a foundation to ensure every student’s Indiana University (IU) experience is positive, safe, healthy, and meaningful. The Office of Student Life staff aim to help students navigate their time at IU, providing the tools they need to be successful. Students are our priority, and their health, safety, and overall well-being are our core mission.

The Assistant Director, Personal Misconduct, is responsible for managing the core area of personal misconduct. The Assistant Director, Personal Misconduct is one of three Assistant Directors overseeing the core areas related to academic, organizational, and personal misconduct cases brought to the Office of Student Conduct (OSC). The three Assistant Directors collaborate to provide support to each core area as needed. Each Assistant Director provides supervision to full-time or graduate staff members.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides case management oversight for the personal misconduct process.
• Administers applicable campus policies and procedures, including personal misconduct policies.
• Serves as an investigator and hearing officer for informal and formal processes related to personal misconduct, academic misconduct, organizational misconduct, and sexual misconduct cases. Assistant Directors have a primary focus area but will investigate or adjudicate cases within the other areas as well.
• Provides alternative resolutions to students seeking conflict resolution through mediation, conflict coaching, or restorative justice.
• Supervises either full-time staff, graduate assistants, or graduate practicum students.
• Plans and participates in training for full-time and graduate student staff.
• Advises one student engagement initiative.
• Consults with other staff members, faculty, and hearing panels on cases and student concerns.
• Serves as representative of the Dean of Students during personal misconduct appeal hearings.
• Manages complex cases, student concerns, and communication.
• Oversees and facilitates, or partners on at least one major curriculum initiative (either the Academic Integrity Seminar, Digital Millennium Copyright Act Seminar, or prevention and education in partnership with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life).
• Coordinates and collaborates with campus partners, other departments, and stakeholders.
• Remains current in the field of student conduct through participation in listservs, conferences and training, partnerships with campus colleagues, reviewing current literature and research, and participation in local, regional or national professional associations and organizations.
• Maintains strong campus and community partnerships to aid in process and support student success. Partnerships include, but are not limited to:
  Indiana University Police Department;
  University Information and Technology Services; the Office of Civil Rights Compliance; the Bias Response Team; the Expressive Activity Support Team; the Care Team; the Office of International Student Services;
  Accessible Education Services;
  Admissions;
  Residence Life; the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life; the Student Involvement and Leadership Center; and Athletics.
• Assists the Associate Director with outreach and education on student life topics related to student rights, hazing, free speech, discrimination and harassment, alcohol and other drugs, and other behavioral trends with campus partners; assists with related projects as assigned including the promotion of student learning and development through case management and related educational efforts while utilizing specialized knowledge of higher education administration, student development theory, conflict resolution, restorative justice, the First Amendment, Title VI, Title IX, VAWA, current legal mandates, and other related content, law, and policy areas.

• Develops and implements programs and initiatives that offer support for students facing student conduct allegations.
• Manages an individual caseload for incidents on and off campus that may affect student standing in relation to the student code of conduct, student safety and well-being, and/or university policies. Handles incident documentation, adjudication, and action planning.
• Collaborates with staff in own department, other departments, external entities as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student conduct goals.
• Interfaces directly with students throughout the duration of the case, directing them to university resources such as staff in student support roles as appropriate. Places emphasis on confidentiality of student concerns, university policy compliance, and a culture of care within all direct student interactions.
• Provides training to and serves as a resource for university constituents with high student interaction in order to educate on student conduct and the related procedures for case resolution.
• Runs reports on case…