Title IX and Compliance Coordinator

The Title IX Coordinator at Alfred University will ensure that the institution complies with Title IX, NYS's Enough is Enough and Sexual Harassment Laws, Title VI, Title VII, the ADA and Section 504, and applicable federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and sexualized violence. The Title IX Coordinator oversees the implementation of Alfred University Title IX and Non-Discrimination Policies. This position will coordinate and facilitate the institution's compliance with federal and state civil rights laws, will lead the development and implementation of educational programs regarding protected class discrimination and harassment, including sexual violence, ensuring faculty, staff, and students understand their rights and, where applicable, responsibilities under the law. Overseas and coordinates intakes, investigations, responses to reports, and resolution processes, including supervision of investigators and selection and training of Deputy Title IX Coordinators. Collaborates with campus entities and University leadership to identify and address systemic problems.

Salary : $90,204-$95,398 annually

Essential Functions :

• This position has no supervisor authority
• Monitoring compliance : Overseeing the institution's compliance with federal and state civil rights requirements. Serve as the University's designated Title IX and Title VI Coordinator
• Educating : Educating students and employees on reporting options, responding to reports, resources, and rights
• Implementing procedures : Implementing the institution's procedures for handling discrimination complaints
• Collaborating with areas across the institution to develop proactive programming designed to support a culture of respect and safety
• Building partnerships with state and local agencies, including law enforcement, to provide additional support and training to the campus community
• Developing policies : Creating and implementing policies, procedures, and training programs for students, faculty, and staff that comply with federal and state law
• Creating a safe environment : Providing information about resources and helping to create a safe environment for students and employees
• Oversees, coordinates, and ensures investigations of reports and complaints of protected class discrimination and harassment, ensure investigations are in compliance with relevant laws and university policy
• Selects, trains, and oversees designated Deputy Title IX Coordinators across critical areas of the institution; ensure internal and external investigators, adjudicators and those involved with processing complaints are adequately trained in compliance with federal and state laws
• Responsible for implementing the biannual climate survey, in coordination with other campus departments
• Identifies systemic problems relating to discrimination and harassment, including monitoring barriers to reporting, and determines what resources and actions should be adopted in response
• Collaborates with leadership and campus constituencies to disseminate information, redesign processes, and support the University's resolution processes; collaborates and coordinates with compliance partners within the department and across the institution to support the University's overlapping compliance needs and responsibilities
• Ensures maintenance of all relevant records as required by federal and state law
• Creates and retains records using approved incident management system (Maxient)
• Serves on various University committees as requested by the Chief Operating Officer
• Serves as Campus Security Authority as outlined by the Clery Act

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Qualifications-Education & Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities :

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Personal Protective Equipment must be worn when required. A respiratory function test and the ability to use respirators may be required. Stairs and uneven surfaces may be present; artificial lifts, etc. may or may not be available. The position may require the incumbent to walk outdoors in all types of weather to other buildings or

offices located on the campus. The Campus is located in an area that contains numerous hills and slopes and may not always be fully accessible for mobility impaired individuals.

About Alfred University

Lighting the way for students since 1836. "We've always been a place for makers, especially those who make the future. Our commitment to independent thinking, creativity, academic rigor and community have made us a unique kind of leader since 1836."

Alfred University (AU) was founded on principles of social justice in 1836 by liberal, independent thinkers who placed high value on education for all citizens. The University has retained and built upon the strong values of its founders, developing as an institution of national and international renown that is responsive to the needs of contemporary society while remaining consistent with the spirit of its origins. Alfred University is the second oldest coeducational college in the United States as well as one of the earliest nineteenth century colleges to have enrolled African American and Native American students. It has a long-standing history of educating socially conscious students who make a difference in their professions and their communities.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Alfred University evolved into a complex institution offering a full range of programs in the liberal arts and sciences, art and design, engineering, business, education, counseling, and school psychology to its nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students that live, learn, and play on a 232-acre campus located in an idyllic, creative valley in Western New York. To learn more, visit alfred .edu.

Alfred University actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee, student or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.