Working Title: Associate Director of Work-Based Learning

State Role Title: Administrative and Professional Faculty

Position Type: Administrative & Professional (Non-teaching Faculty)

Position Status: Full-Time

FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtime

College/Division: Student Life and Involvement

Department: 100358 - University Career Center

Pay Rate: Pay Range

Specify Range or Amount: $70,000 - $75,000

Is this a JMU only position? No

Is this a grant-funded position? Yes. This is a grant-funded position and is contingent upon continued funding.

Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position? No

Beginning Review Date: 03/10/2025

About JMU:

Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.

Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.

Who We Are
Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.

JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

General Information:

The Associate Director of Work-Based Learning Experiences (WBLE) is the first position in a newly established Work-Based Learning unit in the University Career Center. The incumbent will oversee the coordination, tracking, assessment and reporting of curricular and non-curricular work-based learning experiences at James Madison University and, in alignment with University WBLE initiatives, to identify ways to maintain, strengthen and increase WBLE opportunities. The role is part of the leadership teams for the University Career Center and additionally operates under the advisement of the Presidential WBLE Committee.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Associate Director of Work-Based Learning is the first position in a newly established Work-Based Learning unit in the University Career Center. The incumbent will oversee the coordination, tracking, assessment and reporting of curricular and non-curricular work-based learning experiences at James Madison University and, in alignment with University WBLE initiatives, to identify ways to maintain, strengthen and increase WBLE opportunities. The role is part of the leadership teams for the University Career Center and additionally operates under the advisement of the Presidential WBLE Committee.

PLANNING, ASSESSMENT & REPORTING: In collaboration with the UCC and the Presidential WBLE Committee, oversee long-range strategic and annual planning activities related to ensuring every student at JMU has access to completing a WBLE during their academic careers, and ensure those plans are effectively communicated, pursued and monitored. Identify sources of annual WBLE completion information and oversee the compilation of this data. Report WBLE completion knowledge by college, major, class year, and other criteria. (20% of time)

WBLE CURRICULAR ALIGNMENT: Collaborate with Employer Services team, the Presidential WBLE Committee, faculty, and employer partners to respond to and create commitment among faculty and external WBLE partners to generate and maintain Curricular WBLE completion. Lead initiatives to develop partnership between employers, alumni, and faculty to inspire curricular WBLE connections. Maintain a clearinghouse of WBLE partners. Develop and update resources to guide and support faculty in creating and enhancing WBLE curricular offerings. Develop academic connections across JMU and a system to collect information about curricular alignment. Teach one or more sections of the UCC internship course. (30% of time)

NON CURRICULAL ALIGNMENT: Collaborate with the Presidential WBLE Advisory Committee, supervisors of student employees, other on-campus partners, and employers to ensure that on-campus and off-campus non-curricular WBLEs exist. Identify annual goals for the desired number of available non-curricular on campus and off campus WBLE opportunities. Create a process to evaluate on-campus and off-campus non-curricular experiences for WBLE designation. Identify incentives for student completion of non-credit WBLEs. Develop training for partners to create new or enhance non-curricular WBLE experiences. (30% of time)

WBLE COMMUNICATION: Collaborate with the Presidential WBLE Committee to identify communication and awareness campaigns and programming to support the JMU WBLE initiative. Oversee at least quarterly communication about on-campus WBLEs to students, faculty and employer partners. Oversee at least quarterly communication about curricular WBLEs to faculty and employer partners. Oversee coordination of Annual JMU WBLE Symposium. Establish and oversee completion of annual communication and programming initiatives. (10% of time)

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Manage personnel, finance, technology and contractual resources and services to support the success of the unit. Make accurate and responsible budget requests, assure that fiscal operations are consistent with standards and polices, and carefully account for allocated funds, revenues, and external sources. (10% of time)

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience developing structure, systems and processes for successful department, division or university/organization wide adoption of one or more initiatives
• Knowledge of work-based learning legalities, trends, and impact of successful work-based learning experience on students, the employer and the institution
• Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial partnerships among different internal and external constituencies
• Experience interacting with people at all levels of an organization
• Experience supervising full-time staff
• Ability to manage multiple and complex priorities
• Understanding of higher education structure, student development and/or adult learning theories
  
  

Preferred:

• Ability to motivate employer non-profit, government and corporate partners to engage students in WBLEs with their organization by explaining the relevance of academic programs, particularly liberal arts and sciences programs that lack a definitive career outcome in their discipline name
• Experience working with career services technology such as Handshake, and 12Twenty including the ability to run reports and analyze results
• Ability to use advanced functions of Excel to analyze student and employer engagement data and create performance metrics for the unit
  
  
  

Additional Posting Information:

This is a 1-year grant funded position from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia with the possibility of securing an additional 2-years of funding for subsequent years.

JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2OTF1NG.

Conditions of Employment:  

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background check.

E-Verify Notice: After accepting employment, new hires are required to complete an I-9 form and present documentation of their identity and eligibility to work in the United States. James Madison University uses the E-Verify system to confirm identity and work authorization.

EEO Statement:

James Madison University is committed to creating and supporting a diverse and inclusive work and educational community that is free of all forms of discrimination. This institution does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status.

We promote access, inclusion and diversity for all students, faculty, staff, constituents and programs, believing that these qualities are foundational components of an outstanding education in keeping with our mission. The university is interested in candidates whose experience and qualifications support an ongoing commitment to this core quality.

Anyone having questions concerning discrimination should contact the Office for Equal Opportunity: (540) 568-6991.

Reasonable Accommodation:

If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance searching or applying for jobs please contact us at (540) 568-3597 or jobs@jmu.edu. You may also visit the JMU Human Resource Office, located at 752 Ott Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 and we will be happy to assist you.