Job Details

The AANAPISI Program Coordinator at BHCC will work closely with the AANAPISI leadership and design teams at BHCC and UMass Boston to help design, implement, and evaluate student support programming activities that will support the goals of the AANAPISI Part A Cooperative Grant between UMass Boston (the lead institution) and its partner institution, Bunker Hill Community College. The cooperative grant, under the title, AANAPISI Proud: Creating Culturally Sustaining Pathways from Community College to Baccalaureate and Beyond, aims to enhance the capacity of both institutions to build and maintain effective academic support services, affinity group-based academic advising and career coaching, peer mentoring and tutoring, and a more culturally sustaining curriculum for students, especially Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Pell-eligible students. In coordination with the Project Co-Directors, cross-institutional design teams and UMass Boston's AANAPISI Program Coordinator, the BHCC Program Coordinator will (1) help design and implement affinity-based welcome programming each semester for BHCC students who aspire to transfer to UMB; (2) organize campus visits to UMB for BHCC students to enable BHCC students to learn about UMB's campus resources, (3) coordinate with UMB's Program Coordinator in the implementation of a peer mentoring program that connects UMB peer mentors who transferred in from BHCC with students newly transferred from BHCC.

Specific Duties:

• Create and deliver culturally responsive student services and programming aimed at improving student engagement, retention, and graduation.
• Provide asset-based, culturally responsive, and targeted advising and success coaching support for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Pell-eligible students, with a focus on educational, career planning and transfer.
• Assist students in exploring scholarships, internships, and transfer opportunities.
• Develop community-building activities that promote a safe, supportive atmosphere for exploring one's ethnic identity, cultural wealth, aspirations, strategies to navigate challenges, and other topics of interest to students.
• Monitor students' academic progress and provide holistic, culturally responsive academic and career advising support.
• Coordinate outreach activities to provide culturally responsive academic and career pathways for prospective students from local high schools and community-based organizations.
• Build collaborative relationships with different resource centers on campus to provide appropriate support services, such as, but not limited to tutoring, forming study groups, finding internship opportunities, supplemental instruction, accommodations for disabilities, financial literacy skills development, and basic needs and emergency assistance.
• Work with relevant areas of the College to provide students meaningful opportunities for community engagement and other co-curricular activities, as well as training in student leadership development.
• Increase awareness of the diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) experiences across the College.
• Develop a resource inventory of internal and external student support services.
• Handle the logistics for information sessions, career seminars and other events; collaborate with the Office for Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) to regularly update the AANAPISI program website, help create marketing strategies and materials for AAPI student programming, and prepare periodic newsletters or brochures as needed.
• Assist the BHCC Project Co-Director in the preparation of evaluation and fiscal reports to UMass Boston and other relevant parties.
• Assist the BHCC Project Co-Director in coordinating with the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment to develop and maintain student and student programming databases that will be used in formative and summative evaluations.

• Master's degree in Asian American Studies, Transnational, Cultural and Community Studies, Education, Counseling, Psychology, Sociology, or a closely related field, with at least three (3) years' experience and/or training involving college admissions, academic advisement, career development, or program/project development and/or management; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a range of different academic and non-academic units and community-based organizations.
• Excellent intercultural, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills.
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with low-income, first-generation college students from immigrant and/or refugee backgrounds
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively with Asian American and Pacific Islander students and/or communities.
• Proficiency in student information systems as well as MS Word and Excel.
• Ability to work some evenings and weekends
• Bilingual or multilingual language skills particularly in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with AANAPISI student programming and/or student programming at Minority Serving Institutions.
• Prior work experience at a community college.
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
• Demonstrated commitment to asset-based, culturally responsive practices that are grounded in equity and cultural wealth.

Salary Range: $58,320 - $62,548 Actual Salary Will Be Commensurate With Education and Experience in Accordance with MCCC/MTA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Full state Benefits

Grade: 5, Unit-Professional position (Please note that this position is grant-funded through September 30, 2027. Future funding for the position is pending availability after the grant period)

Review Date: To ensure consideration, all application materials must be received by April 12, 2023

Applicants who do not meet the qualifications as noted above are encouraged to put in writing precisely how their background and experience has prepared them with the equivalent combination of education, training and experience required for the responsibilities of this position

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