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Assistant Director Engaged Pedagogy

US-NJ-Princeton

Job ID: 2025-20745
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Student Affairs and Services

Overview

The mission of John H. Pace Jr. '39 Center for Civic Engagement is to make service and civic engagement a central part of the Princeton University student experience. The Pace Center staff guide undergraduate and graduate students in responsibly addressing the world's needs. The breadth of Pace Center programming encompasses connecting and learning from community, sustained volunteering, advocacy, activism, summer service internships, and post-graduate environmental justice fellowships.

 

The Pace Center is seeking an Assistant Director, Engaged Pedagogy. The Assistant Director will deepen students' learning through reflection and engaged pedagogy. The Assistant Director manages multiple undergraduate internship programs - the John C. Bogle '51 Fellowship in Civic Service (Bogle Fellowship), Projects for Peace, and the Nancy Weiss Malkiel Fellowship. In each of these programs, students identify the community partners they will engage with. This format necessitates the Assistant Director’s use of a shared framework of student learning and community engagement. The Assistant Director also works to support the Service Focus program, supporting a small group of students in developing a yearlong project together with faculty members, and community partners. The Assistant Director uses a variety of pedagogical approaches in their work with students, campus and community partners. The Assistant Director encourages, supports and invites diverse perspectives in a commitment to the Center’s vision to have Princeton University students make the world more equitable.

The Assistant Director, Engaged Pedagogy reports directly to the Director of Service Focus. The Pace Center is one of eight units managed by the Office of the Vice President of Campus Life; Campus Life leads the University’s co-curricular efforts to provide an enriching experience for Princeton’s 5,200 undergraduates and 2,700 graduate students.

Responsibilities

Manage Multiple Internship Programs (40%)

• Design, manage, and support several key areas for student development and learning within the experiential learning team.
• Support students in small group reflection across Pace Center programs.
• Oversee the planning and budgeting for the Bogle Fellowship, Projects for Peace, and the Nancy Weiss Malkiel Fellowship programs.
• Manage the application process, including application review, interviews, and final decisions.
• Advise students to ensure they are meeting community needs, and their own learning goals and the scope and vision of the programs. Ensure the logistics of the internship are set and mutually agreed upon.
• Engage faculty as mentors, and facilitate reflection and community-building amongst stakeholders.
• Conduct stewardship and annual reporting.

Use Engaged Pedagogy to Deepen Student Learning in Internships (40%)

• Contribute to the development and implementation of pedagogical frameworks, materials, and activities that connect civic engagement with learning outcomes to be used throughout the Pace Center and with partners across the university campus.
• Identify and develop strategies to enhance and integrate existing pedagogical materials within the Pace Center and collaborate with the Experiential Learning Team to align these tools with all teams across the center.
• Help to connect community needs, student interests, and faculty interests and develop programmatic resources and practices that will enhance and diversify pathways of service at Princeton.
• Liaise with partners to encourage and support summer programming that augments students’ internship experiences, particularly pedagogical practices that build on a shared framework for student learning and community engagement.
• Using a variety of approaches that range from workshops, to place-based experiences, guest speaker events, roundtable discussions and more, the AD will create planning, implementation, and assessment processes for Engaged Pedagogy across the Pace Center.
• Help develop plans to leverage Engaged Pedagogical frames to connect with partners across the University and outside of it.

Support Service Focus (20%)

• Support the Service Focus Program by offering operational and planning support and by serving as a staff mentor for a small group, collaborating with faculty and student leaders on planning and coordination of bi-weekly meetings and community outreach.
• Support student leaders in Service Focus by creating a plan to incorporate pedagogical resources into their small group activities.
• Develop pedagogical materials that connect service and learning to be used in cross-program events (such as study breaks) and small group gatherings.
• Collaborate with the SF team to plan and execute program-wide activities, integrating reflection tools and pedagogical frameworks into the planning process.

Qualifications

Essential Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Five years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge and use of different pedagogies and frameworks related to student learning and community partnerships.
• Experience teaching and developing curricula.
• Experience in advising and mentoring students.
• Experience working with students and community partners together on values, processes and goals.
• Ability to act as an inclusive leader, creating environments of involvement, respect, connection, and community.
• Demonstrated experience building relationships, working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and forming and sustaining effective partnerships with diverse stakeholders and organizations.
• Strong project management skills including: time management, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in program management and development.
• Experience creating and overseeing a project budget.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills.

Candidates must be willing and able to adjust their schedule to accommodate evening and weekend hours for a small number of special events determined well in advance. In addition, once a year, Pace staff participates in the Community Action Command Center.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a mission driven and/or higher education setting.
• An awareness/understanding of service and civic engagement.
• Experience with software such as MS Office, Google suite of products, Canva, Slack, Campus Groups and ability to learn new technology systems.

 

 

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

Standard Weekly Hours: 36.25

Eligible for Overtime: No

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Probationary Period: 180 days

Essential Services Personnel (see policy for detail): No

Physical Capacity Exam Required: No

Valid Drivers License Required: No

Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level

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