OMAI Associate Director

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Job Summary:

The OMAI Associate Director (AD) is a creative team leader who has expertise in undergraduate student success frameworks, as well as advising and mentorship for youth and young adults of diverse identities at a national level. The AD is generally responsible for the execution of OMAI programming, First Wave scholarship administration and recruitment strategies, and managing staff and campus partnerships. They are a multi-hyphenate creative in their own right, with a diverse skill set in team and project management, national recruitment efforts, public speaking, student advising/mentorship and curriculum design, and creating, cultivating, and executing multicultural programming.

As the Associate Director of OMAI at UW-Madison, the AD develops and evaluates programs and curriculum designed to promote student success and retention. They supervise staff and provide guidance to groups to foster a supportive institutional culture.

This position is full-time, 100%.

Ongoing/Renewable

This position will be fully on-site. Occasional travel will be required. Some evening/weekend work is required in line with programming offered by program/unit.

• Assists in the development of strategy for the implementation and maintenance of scholarship activities to ensure appropriate use of resources to align with and accomplish recruitment and retention goals and meet donor intent.
• Work with Academic Advisor and graduate mentors in monitoring and reporting student academic progress and scholarship requirements in order to ensure the persistence, graduation, and overall academic and personal success of First Wave Scholars.
• Leads one or more major operations of the advising unit and plans and directs staff implementation of academic services, related programs, and other events.
• Assists in the development of operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives.
• Maintains expertise with advised curriculum and may assist in developing and recommending exceptions for policy and curriculum.
• Serves as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders to maintain campus partnerships.
• Assists in the development of strategic planning initiatives to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources, and alignment with the strategic plan.
• Reviews and makes recommendations for exceptions to academic policies, procedures, and requirements for students.
• Participates in the campus-wide advising community, providing input to leadership regarding the development of advising, recruitment, and co/curricular programs offered by the school/college.
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees.

Division for Teaching and Learning, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI)

The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives within the Division for Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides culturally relevant and transformative arts programming to promote positive social dialogue and to give cultural art forms a legitimate academic forum. By harnessing the broad cultural influence of spoken word, hip hop, and emerging as well as traditional art forms, OMAI’s events and programming create learning environments that directly affect UW-Madison’s campus climate, improving retention and graduation metrics, and preparing future leaders to reinvest in their communities.

By continually refreshing this paradigm that integrates traditional academics and cutting-edge arts activism, OMAI empowers transnational leaders with new tools for inclusive community building.

One of OMAI’s most prominent initiatives is the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program, a…