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Title: Assistant Director of Academic-Residential Partnerships for Dining Engagement

Position Type: Staff Full-Time

Days Per Week: Monday - Friday

Hours Per Week: 40

VP Area: Student Life

Department:

Position Summary

The Assistant Director of Academic-Residential Partnerships for Dining Engagement provides visible and strategic leadership to collaboration between Student Life, Academic Affairs, and Elon Dining to achieve the university’s goal for engaging students, faculty, and staff with each other through dining experiences.

This position will serve as a resource for faculty, staff and students to support events, facilitate partnerships involving unique dining experiences, identify opportunities to create dining-initiated events that enhance campus programs, and coordinate signature experiences.
The Assistant Director must be an energetic, highly motivated, thoughtful, dependable individual with strong interpersonal and organizational skills that reflect a strong customer service focus. This position interacts with all members of the university community.

Benefits of Working at Elon

As an Elon University employee, you’ll join an internationally acclaimed university with a commitment to fostering a thriving community. Ranked among the most innovative, creative and best-run universities in the nation, Elon’s personal approach to education extends to employees, whose growth, professional development and success is a hallmark of our training and advancement opportunities.

Elon University’s home is the charming town of Elon, North Carolina, a small, friendly community located a short distance from the beach and the mountains, and among the vibrant cities of Greensboro, Raleigh and Durham. In addition to the beautiful canopy of historic oak trees iconic to our campus, you’ll find boundless opportunities for family-friendly recreation, cultural events and outdoor activities. Hiking, water sports, fine dining and entertainment are just a few of the many happenings in the Elon area, making the region one of the nation’s premier travel destinations.

Employees at Elon enjoy a generous and comprehensive benefits package that includes:
• 28 annual days off, including holidays and vacation.
• Immediate tuition remission for employees.
• Retirement plan with an 8 percent contribution from the university.
• Immediate eligibility for health, dental and vision insurance, along with free acute care and lab services at our onsite Health & Wellness Clinic.
• Free use of campus fitness facilities.
• Free admission to musical and theater performances, guest speakers, religious and ethnic observances, recitals, art exhibitions, entertainment and our Division I Phoenix athletics.

Eligibility for tuition remission at Elon for spouses, qualifying domestic partners and dependents begins at two years of service. After two years of employment, eligibility begins for participation in the Tuition Exchange, a national scholarship exchange program that enables dependents to enroll in nationally recognized partner colleges and universities.

Elon values and celebrates the diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences and perspectives of our community members. As an equal opportunity employer, Elon’s principles of diversity extend to race and gender identity, age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and other aspects of one’s identity. At Elon, our employees respect human differences, passion for lifelong learning, emphasis on personal integrity and an ethic of service.

Minimum Required Education and Experience

Completed Bachelor’s degree and 2-3 years of experience required.

Preferred Education and Experience

Master’s degree with 1-2 years of experience is preferred. Experience with event planning, particularly on a college/university campus preferred.

Required Other Training, Certifications, or Licensing

Job Duties

• Collaboration & Marketing · Maintain strong relationships and facilitate regular meetings with administrative and academic departments that contribute to the residential and campus community. Develop connections in all university administration units. · Serve as a resource for faculty and staff members to support event planning and creating linkages between Elon Dining and academic/administrative units. · Solicit and support student-initiated ideas and activities that enhance intellectual climate and contribute to the integration of academic, residential, and social aspects of student life. · Partner with Elon Dining to market dining-initiated programming. · Collaborate with Elon Dining to develop a shared definition, mission and goals for dining engagement that support the residential neighborhood experience, academic and campus initiatives. · Work with the Elon Dining Guest Experience Manager to market “What is Elon Dining Engagement” to the Elon Community to showcase the unique benefits and opportunities of this work. · Maintain departmental websites and social media applications which should include a catalogue of collaborative programming. 
• Programming · Create engaging programs connecting students to dining related priorities that include nutritional health and wellbeing, sustainability, engaging difference, food preparation through diverse cooking platforms, farming and food science. · Identify and implement experiences to create dining-initiated events or cross programming opportunities that enhance cultural programs; student life; the residential campus; diversity, equity and inclusion efforts; HealthEU; academic majors/minors; global education; and other university programs and initiatives. · Promote, monitor and assess student, faculty, and staff usage of the “Take a Student to Lunch” and “Student Initiated Dining Engagement (SIDE) Swipes” programs as vehicles for building meaningful relationships. · Coordinate and ensure a robust programming schedule for Life Around the Table and residential dining long tables. · Coordinate the College Coffee program. · Identify/assist in creation of calendar for Elon Dining specifically related to HealthEU programming. 
• Financial and Office Management · Develop and monitor annual goals and measures of success for integrating dining, residential, and academic experiences. · Allocate and monitor use of meal plans for faculty and staff serving in key roles with the residential neighborhoods (community directors, faculty directors, faculty-in-residence, graduate assistants, Living Learning Community (LLC) advisors, linked course instructors, etc.). · Prepare documents and reports for projects, metrics, meetings and committee reports. · Maintain and track budgets for programmatic events (TASTL, SIDES, College Coffee, etc.). 
• Advisory Role · Serve as a member of the Residential Campus Advisory Committee. · Attend Elon Dining Student Advisory Board meetings. · Participate upon invitation in meetings of various campus committees that contribute to intellectual climate and the residential campus initiative, including neighborhood associations, Student Life meetings, joint Deans council, academic affairs council, dining advisory committee, common reading committee, and others. · Collaborate with the Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Campus Life, Director of Academic-Residential Partnerships, Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Services, and Resident District Manager for Elon Dining on strategic planning initiatives.
• OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES: · Be available for occasional weekend or evening work related to student programs and events · Must have a valid North Carolina driver’s license and be insurable by the University’s carrier. Following a conditional offer of employment, Elon conducts motor vehicle record checks on all job applicants who are required to drive a university vehicle as an essential function of their job. Thereafter, a random motor vehicle record check will be conducted annually. Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a motor vehicle record check · Other duties assigned by the Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Campus Life, Director of Academic-Residential Partnerships, Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Services, Resident District Manager for Elon Dining.