Job Details

The Latinx Student Coordinator supports Latinx students at Lane Community College. Program goals include helping students to make a smooth transition to college, helping students identify available resources, and providing follow-up services, and offering a variety of opportunities to learn about Latinx culture, values, and traditions. The Latinx Student Coordinator may assist efforts of Lane Community College to attain a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status. The selected candidate will actively work to support the education and success of Chicano/Mexicano/Hispanic/Latinx and Caribbean students. The selected candidate will work to design and provide programs that increase student and campus understanding of historical, current, and emergent strengths, contributions, and challenges facing this community. The selected candidate will contribute directly to Latinx student education by providing student support services, mentoring students, advising the student organization, e.g. MECHA, possibly teaching classes as assigned by the college within the position's 1.0 FTE, and event planning with various college units, for example, with the student organization and the bridge and leadership programs. The Coordinator will guide Latinx students in exploring their culture and identity and defining a future for themselves. Close collaboration with the local community, local schools, and community groups around the state will also be expected. Bilingual, Spanish/English Language Skills strongly desired.