Graduate Mentorship Coordinator
Position Summary
The Graduate Mentorship Coordinator is a live-off staff member in the Office of Residence Life. The Graduate Mentorship Coordinator assists in the daily operation of a Resident Success Mentor and SMART Programs that supports residential students to achieve their academic, personal, and professional goals. The Graduate Mentorship Coordinator is supervised by the Coordinator for Diversity Initiatives. The Graduate Mentorship Coordinator directly supervises 10-15 Mentors and assists with hall-wide and campus wide programming, workshops, the design and development of the Generation Falcon summer link program, and/or Assessment and oversight of belonging and educational programming.
Time Commitment
This position is a 10-month contract with 20 hours scheduled per week. This position includes evening and weekend hours.
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills
The Graduate Resident Success Coordinator must be a full-time graduate student at Bowling Green State University. To be successful in this position, the Graduate Resident Success Coordinator must have a demonstrated desire to work with residence life programs and staff supervision in a residential setting. In addition, the Graduate Resident Success Coordinator must have excellent interpersonal and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills, and a demonstrated desire to work with underrepresented populations. Prior leadership experience working in a residential setting and experience advising student organizations or staff supervision is preferred.
Responsibilities
Major Responsibilities
Programming
- Advise programming within the SMART Program’s five priorities (Academic Success, Safety and Security, Inclusivity, Engagement, and Personal Growth)
- Attend student-led SMART programming events within SMART
- Design, develop, and execute large scale programming events including SMART, RSM, and Gen Falcon programs (Gen Falcon programs start during the summer term)
- Assist in the planning of signature programs
- Plan, develop, and execute the “Mentee of the Month” and SMART Incentive Programs
Supervision
- Direct supervision and evaluation of student staff mentors
- Indirect supervision of all SMART Program Staff
- Follow up with SMART students who need additional assistance
- Indirect or direct supervision of Generation Falcon (Gen Falcon) student leaders
- Assist in leading weekly staff meetings for mentors.
- Complete evaluations for direct reports on a semester basis
Administration
- Assist in conducting weekly roundtable staff meetings with the SMART staff and monthly meetings with all SMART students
- Assist with student staff recruitment and selection efforts.
- Assist in developing/presenting training sessions for SMART Team Leaders, SMART Mentors, and Resident Advisors
- Maintain mentor administrative files, forms, and matching lists.
- Monitor and update all mentor program social media and websites
- Attend weekly 1:1 meeting with direct supervisor as well as weekly ResLife staff meeting
Additional Responsibilities Include
- Assist in advising Generation Falcon student organization.
- Participate in the FIRE (Falcon Intentional Retention Enrichment) engagement model
- Make resources referrals to Academic Advisors, Learning Commons, Counseling Center, Bursar, Financial Aid, and other resources relevant to academic success issues
- Help student identify their Academic Advisor, College Offices, DARS Reporting System, Etc.
- Participate on committees within Residence Life such as Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Recognition and Engagement, etc.
- Attend and participate in Residence Education staff training
- Complete weekly rounds of Residential Resources Centers
- Serve on the First Generation Commission
- Support Bowling Green State University and Office of Residence Life initiatives
- Perform other duties as assigned
Updated: 12/20/2023 03:48PM