Requisition Number: S_250281

Department: Advocacy and Support-10975

Description of Work:

• Assists in training development for residence life staff
• Provide general information about Student Advocacy and Support during RA Orientation, Learning Community Peer Mentor Orientation and other key events.
• Work directly with residential students to help resolve complex situations and advocate on their behalf, fielding calls, emails, and referrals, and coordinates responses and services for individual students.
• Research national best practices for student support and success.
• Serve as a member of the university's Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT).
• Supports the activities, programs, and services associated with the functions of the Student Advocacy and Support Office, Residence Life/University Housing as needed.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
• Three years demonstrated experience in crisis management, crisis intervention, and case management with college students and emerging adults.
• Broad knowledge of health care, mental health care, crisis management, and services. Experience in prevention, psycho-educational, and educational outreach and programming for students, faculty, staff, and parents/family members.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate and coordinate campus and community services for students including connecting students to comprehensive programs on campus to help them succeed as well as advocate on their behalf in extenuating circumstances, and assist them in understanding and accessing resources available to them.
• Ability to interact effectively, productively, and sensitively with students, faculty, staff, and parents per the standards and practices related to the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) and the relevant policies and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary organizational setting including on-campus residential facilities, faculty, campus administration, campus health providers, off-campus health care providers, law enforcement, and the courts.
• Commitment to cultivate a healthy campus climate in which all students, staff, and faculty are treated respectfully and are able to thrive and succeed. Collaborates with campus partners to promote a campus climate of community.
• Demonstrated ability to develop training curriculum and deliver training and presentations to a wide variety of audiences such as faculty, deans, department chairs, students, and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to review, understand, and effectively apply complex policies and laws.
• Outstanding oral, written, and digital communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to advocate on behalf of students and encourage students towards achieving individual goals, follow through on recommendations, and learn self-advocacy skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Posted Salary: $52,000/yr. minimum

Job Type: Full-Time

About University of Nebraska Lincoln

With over 25,000 students, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a diverse educational insitution with international stature. The intellectual center for the state of Nebraska and beyond, we are a land-grant, top tier national research-extensive insitution. Part of the Big Ten conference, Big Ten Academic Alliance, our mission includes growing relationships and resources that enable the University of Nebraska to change lives.

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