Director of Conflict Resolution Services
Colorado State University - Fort Collins, Colorado
Position Description
The Director of Conflict Resolution Services reports to the Executive Director of the Student Resolution Center and provides leadership for conflict resolution programs, staff development, and strategic partnerships. The role oversees conflict coaching, restorative justice, mediation, training, and consultation while promoting privacy, fairness, and effective responses to student concerns. As a member of the leadership team, the Director also supports strategic planning, assessment, personnel and fiscal management, and departmental policies.
Position Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
Master’s degree in conflict resolution/conflict management, alternative dispute resolution, student personnel, higher education, counseling, social work, psychology or comparable degree.
5 years professional work experience in conflict resolution and/or mediation.
Demonstrated experience planning and implementing educational programs, trainings, workshops, and/or classroom teaching.
Supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated working knowledge of Federal regulations and legal issues in higher education, including but not limited to Title IX, Campus SaVE Act, Clery Act, VAWA, ADA, Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, and FERPA.
Professional experience working in a higher education setting and/or within student affairs.
Knowledge of theories and research in student development, conflict resolution, mediation, social justice, restorative justice, victim’s rights and needs, due process, and other legal issues in higher education.
Demonstrated written communication experience such as reports, proposals, professional correspondence, presentation content and materials, etc.
40-hour basic mediation certificate.
20-hour Restorative Justice Facilitator training or experience facilitating restorative justice processes.
Experience providing conflict coaching.
Demonstrated experience effectively managing a large and complex caseload.
Experience working with the criminal justice system.
Salary Information
$92,000-$96,000
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