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Assistant Director, LGBTQ+ Center

Posting Details

Position Information

Fiscal Year 2024-2025
Position Title Assistant Director, LGBTQ+ Center
Classification Title Student Activities Assistant Director
Department Office of the Dean of Students
Posting Number P250013
Posting Link https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/54984
Employer State
Position Type
Professional Appointment Term Term
Salary Grade SL3
Posting Detail Information

Position Summary
The Assistant Director of the LGBTQ+ Center works within the mission of the Division of Student Life to provide diverse programming to LGBTQ+ students in a safe, affirming, and welcoming environment. The Assistant Director provides vision, strategic leadership, and overall supervision to the LGBTQ+ Center in support of the University’s academic mission and the strategic priorities of Student Life.

The LGBTQ+ Center plays a critical role in student support and advisement, educational efforts, community building, fostering dialogue, and ongoing initiatives to ensure that all students have the fullest opportunity to flourish and succeed. In addition to overseeing the administrative and operational functions, the Assistant Director will work collaboratively to provide advice, counsel, referrals, and educational resources to LGBTQ+ students.

Responsibilities
  • Advance the mission of the LGBTQ+ Center by providing departmental leadership, management, and oversight, setting and guiding the overall vision and strategic direction for the center, and supporting students on topics related to LGBTQ+ identity.
  • Lead efforts to provide dynamic learning activities, programs, and dialogues that engage diverse perspectives and foster shared understanding in collaboration with students, student organizations, and campus and community stakeholders, and continually assess the effectiveness of center offerings.
  • Recruit, select, supervise, evaluate, and support the professional development of a strong team including one part-time graduate assistant and undergraduate student workers.
  • Carefully track and manage the LGBTQ+ Center budget; align budgetary allocations with divisional and institutional objectives and priorities.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact, resource, and support for students experiencing issues related to LGBTQ+ identity and provide direct support and connections with campus and community resources.
  • Other position-related duties as assigned.


Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds brings to the workforce. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

About Student Life
As a member of Student Life, you will join service professionals, all driven by one shared set of values designed to help ensure students’ well-being, create a safe and supportive environment, and promote student success. In Student Life, growth is a shared passion. We aim for excellence, thinking big and going bold. We pursue our goals tenaciously while stewarding the student experience. We build communities and advance diversity in all forms. We encourage discovery and celebrate success.

Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds bring to the workplace. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

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University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of experience or master’s degree or professional certification with no experience.
  • Overall demonstrated commitment to working with people with marginalized identities.
  • Established record of programs and events with attention to logistics, budgets, contracts and publicity.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Three (3) years of direct or indirect LGBTQ+ student service in higher education.
  • Experience with facilitation and design of workshops, as well as experience with group facilitation and individual advising of LGBTQ+ college student in a non-therapeutic context.
Physical Demands
Salary Range $55,151 - $65,485
Additional Salary Information
Job Type Full-Time
Campus North Campus
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Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Is a background check required for this posting? No
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Contact Information

Contact's Name Ben Fabian
Contact's Pronouns
Contact's Title Associate Director for Student Support and Resources
Contact's Email blfabian@buffalo.edu
Contact's Phone 716-645-2982
Posting Dates

Posted 01/08/2025
Deadline for Internal Applicants 01/22/2025
Deadline for External Applicants Open Until Filled
Date to be filled
References

Number of References Required 3
Reference Cutoff Date
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Supplemental Questions

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  1. * Are you a SUNY employee eligible for special consideration as a result of retrenchment?
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  2. * Please indicate your current employment affiliation with the University at Buffalo.
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    • No Current Employment Affiliation
  3. * How did you first hear about this employment opportunity?
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Documents Needed To Apply

Required Documents
  1. Cover Letter
  2. Resume
Optional Documents