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New Student Transition Specialist, Special Projects
3 months ago
Overview:
Term: 2 years.
The New Student Transition Specialist, Special Projects is accountable to the Manager, New Student Transition and is part of an interdependent and collaborative team committed to the successful design, development, implementation, and administration of programming that enhances the new student experience.
Until the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the New Student Transition (NST) team executed programming that had only minor changes and updates over the past decade.
Though the needs of the incoming cohorts of UWaterloo students have evolved over the last ten years, many of the NST team's initiatives have not.
This Specialist has three primary areas of focus: 1) Project manage the strategic assessment of the undergraduate Orientation decision-making model and Orientation program content;2) conduct and summarize a comprehensive review of best practices/literature, environmental scan of the U15, and any other relevant data (including student feedback) related to first-year Orientation programs and the new student transition experience; 3) conduct a curriculum review and develop a content map including a visual of all content that students receive throughout their transition, inclusive of initiatives offered by other teams within and external to the SSO.
This role will also explore the new student transition experience for student groups including but not limited to Black, indigenous, racialized and traditionally under-represented students and international, undergraduate students, and graduate students.
Responsibilities:
Specific Accountabilities and role outcomes
- Acts as the project lead in the assessment of the undergraduate Orientation decisionmaking model and content that is shared during Orientation
- Review current new student transition (including Orientation) best practices (including research and literature) and produce recommendations that align with relevant student development theory, best practices and student trends that can guide the undergraduate Orientation strategic assessment process and the work of the New Student Transition team over the next five years
- Conduct a full review of new student transition programs/initiatives (undergraduate and graduate) and produce recommendations with supported rationale for program updates, enhancements, and changes
- Produce a curriculum and/or content map including a visual of all content and information students receive throughout their transition beyond new student transition offerings; outline recommendations for how this work should be operationalized among new student transition team and other teams within the SSO
- Create an outline with a visual of the transition experience for various student groups with particular focus on equitydeserving students (undergraduate and graduate) and recommendations for how new student transition programming can action these recommendations
- Working closely with the SSO's Data and Evaluation Specialist and the WUSA research team to create a plan to gather student feedback related to their experiences with Orientation and transition at UWaterloo
- Produce a full report on all recommendations that can be applied to the new student transition team's work and how this connects to the overall student experience at UWaterloo that can be shared internally (SSO) and with external partners as appropriate
- The Specialist demonstrates a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and antiracism through their leadership and operational practices
- The Specialist will also contribute to and lead additional special projects as needed
- Implements and maintains project management processes for the strategic assessment of the undergraduate Orientation decisionmaking model and Orientation program content
- Develops a project plan, that includes but is not limited to a project charter, project scope and deliverables, clear outline of roles and responsibilities for all involved stakeholders (internal and external to the SSO), deadlines and the process for moving the work forward to ensure all project deliverables are in place and completed on time
- Develops and leads a communications strategy among all project stakeholders, ensuring that key information is shared well in advance of deadlines and that all stakeholders are clear of their roles and expectations in relation to the overall project
- Leads all processes related to the assessment of the Orientation decision making model and Orientation program content
- Establishes evaluation and assessment methods to collect and analyze student feedback that can inform recommendations for undergraduate Orientation and the overall new student transition portfolio in the SSO
- Reads current literature, research student trends and relevant student development theory in relation to the new student transition (including Orientation) experience. Summarizes and simplifies this knowledge for th
