Important Notifications:
Application Deadline: When applying, please keep in mind this posting will close at 11:59 pm the night before the posted "end date". Applications MUST be submitted prior to this deadline.
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Department:
Diversity & Cultural Engagement
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Special Instructions to Applicants:
When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:
1) A resume
2) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position.
Starting salary will be commensurate with skills, education, and experience.
For additional information please contact:
Meghan Lockwood
Meghan.Lockwoood@oregonstate.edu
541-737-6603
Job Summary:
Diversity & Cultural Engagement is seeking a Center Director of the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.
Diversity & Cultural Engagement (DCE), a department within the Division of Student Affairs, serves as a student-centered hub for identity-affirming community and belonging for students at Oregon State University (OSU).
The Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center is one of DCE’s eight programs. The other seven programs include six additional Cultural Resource Centers (CRCs) – the Asian & Pacific Cultural Center, El Centro, Ettihad Cultural Center, kaku-ixt mana ina haws, Pride Center, and Hattie Redmond Women & Gender Center – and SOL: LGBTQ+ Multicultural Support Network, which works within and across all seven CRCs.
Reporting to the Director of DCE, the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center (LBHBCC) Center Director provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the LBHBCC. One of seven cultural resource centers at Oregon State University, the LBHBCC serves all people with a focus on Black, African, and African American peoples. The Center Director is responsible for cultivating an inclusive, welcoming, and affirming environment where Black, African, and African American identities, cultures, and histories are honored and celebrated, and all students are welcome and invited to participate and learn. This role is central to fostering student belonging, academic success, and holistic well-being by providing culturally relevant programs, advocacy, and support services.
The Center Director oversees the daily operations of the center, including student staff supervision, budget management, programming, and community engagement. They serve as a collaborator in building connections between students, campus partners, and community partners to expand opportunities for Black, African, and African American students and enhance institutional awareness and accountability. By aligning LBHBCC initiatives with Diversity & Cultural Engagement (DCE) and OSU’s broader strategic priorities, the Center Director plays a key role in advancing access, retention, and graduation outcomes with a focus on Black, African, and African American students and other minoritized and underserved students.
Key Responsibilities:
Across all areas of responsibility, the Center Director of the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center is expected to bring a student-centered, mission-aligned lens to their leadership. This includes a focus on the experiences, needs and perspectives, of Black, African, and African American students while also attending to the broader mission of DCE and the university. The Center Director uses this lens to inform priorities, partnerships, programming, resource decisions, and organizational practices and to identify opportunities to strengthen student learning, belonging, leadership, and success.
CRC Leadership, Student Development & Educational Practices
Provide strategic leadership for the Lonnie B Harris Black Cultural Center LBHBCC, creating an identity-affirming environment that advances student belonging, learning, leadership…