Program Specialist

Position Title: Program Specialist 2

About the University: Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

Woodring College of Education and the Department of Early Childhood, Elementary and Multilingual Education supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Program Specialist 2 is a member of a dynamic team focused on student success and in increasing the number of certified educators in the State of Washington. This position plays a significant role in supporting students (undergrad, graduate, endorsement-only) once admitted into their program of study. Undergrad students are admitted on an annual basis, graduate students are admitted every other year, and endorsement-only students are admitted on an ongoing quarterly basis.

This position serves as the sole on‑site staff member and is responsible for coordinating all student service and faculty support aspects of Woodring College of Education's Multilingual Education Community Programs offered at Western's site location in Renton, WA.

The Program Specialist will work in collaboration with Academic Program Directors who lead the on‑site programs, with the transfer student success specialist who manages the admissions for all multilingual education programming across multiple sites, and with the multilingual education outreach manager. Strong communication skills as well as the ability to work both as a member of a team and independently are critical to this position.

Additionally, this position will assist with tasks specific to Multilingual Education programming across multiple sites, including the Bilingual Teaching Fellows Program located in Everett.

This is an 11‑month, 40 hour/week, cyclic position. The position is based at the Puget Sound ESD in Renton. Students and faculty are on site Monday through Thursday; the Program Specialist is expected to work on site Monday through Thursday with possible opportunity for remote work on Fridays. Anticipated work hours are Monday‑Thursday, 9:00‑6:00;
Friday hours are variable. Tasks pertaining to other site locations will be…