WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) is looking for an experienced Student Life Coordinator to join the team in Student Affairs. This highly-visible, student-facing role will focus on developing and supporting student-led initiatives to foster an inclusive environment and providing administrative and coordination support for Student Affairs.

• Works hand-in-hand with the Director of Student Life and Well-Being to support Student Organizations and Student Interest Groups
• Serve as Student Affairs advisor for all Student Organizations, assisting in travel arrangements for annual conference participation.
• Serve as co-advisor for student interest groups with a diversity-based mission.
• Provide leadership and oversight to specific, larger-scale, student-planned events including student-led affinity month programming, Specialty Speed Rounds, Big/Little Sibs programs and HeART of WMed.
• Coordinates Student Organization and Student Interest Group training programs, informing students of policies and procedures for outreach, fundraisers, event planning, etc.
• Partner with the Student Council treasurer to track their finances and stay on track; Collects documentation for reimbursements and processes them in collaboration with Administrative Assistant.
• Oversee the student scrub order and distribution process, including sample sizes, size collecting, ordering, distributing, and fourth-year collection.
• Develop relationships with students in the MBS program; coordinate and manage a formal mentor-mentee program for those in this program.
• Counsels and provides support to students experiencing all levels of academic and non-academic concerns, problems, and questions. Identify and triage concerns, refer to the appropriate available resources, initiate contact and engage relevant referral sources, offer encouragement and support to students, and ensure that assistance has been made available.
• Represent Student Affairs at designated committee meetings as assigned.
• Serves as a member of the WMed social media team.
• Availability to assist with large student affairs events such as graduation, match day, white coat ceremony, awards ceremony, and transitions week activities.
• Staffs the Student Affairs front desk two days a week, and assists in PTO coverage on other days.
• Provide support to the weekly student communication email content, serving as backup prover as needed.
• Be present at several SIG or Organization events each month.
• Availability to occasionally work on weekends and evenings to complete time sensitive projects.
• All other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree required with experience in Higher Education Administration, College Student Personnel preferred.
• Prior experience with graduate level student population is preferred.
• Prior experience with event planning is strongly preferred.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong project management skills and ability to track details across multiple complex projects.
• Strong written/verbal interpersonal and communication skills, including presentations and public speaking skills.
• Knowledge and proficiency in word processing using Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• Ability to operate automated standard office equipment such as multi-line phone system, copier, fax, etc.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, understanding the needs of various stakeholders.
• Ability to listen to others and maintain professionalism and confidentiality with sensitive information.
• Ability to role model exemplary ethical and professional behaviors and the medical school’s values for faculty, students, residents, and staff.
• Ability to listen, foster teamwork, and accept accountability.
• Ability to meet assigned deadlines.
• Ability to perform duties independently, with a minimal need for direct supervision.
• Ability to recognize priorities in organization of work flow.

About Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed)

We are committed to excellence and health equity through transformative medical education, high-quality, patient- and family-entered care, innovative research, and community partnerships within a just culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our vision is health equity for all in Southwest Michigan through innovation in the practice and study of medicine.

The medical school is a collaboration of Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo's two teaching health systems, Ascension Borgess and Bronson Healthcare. The medical school is a private nonprofit corporation supported by private gifts, clinical revenues, research activities, tuition, and endowment income. WMed is the recipient of a $100 million foundational gift and the Empowering Futures Gift, a philanthropic commitment of $300 million to support the mission of the medical school. WMed contributes to the economic vitality of Southwest Michigan through the services we provide as well as the creation of 1,600 new jobs and an annual estimated economic impact of $353 million in Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties.

WMed is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Higher Learning Commission. The medical school offers a comprehensive, innovative four-year Doctor of Medicine degree program and a Master of Science degree program in Biomedical Sciences. We train physicians in 10 residencies and five fellowships accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. To support our educational mission, we have Joint Accreditation for interprofessional continuing education, which incorporates accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

WMed Health is the clinical practice of the medical school with more than 300 providers offering comprehensive primary care and specialty services in several locations throughout the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek areas. Faculty in the Department of Pathology serve as the Office of the Medical Examiner for counties throughout Michigan and northern Indiana.

The W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus located in downtown Kalamazoo serves as the primary educational facility with student study and social spaces, team-based learning halls, faculty and administrative offices, a state-of-the-art Simulation Center accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, basic science research labs, as well as toxicology and forensic pathology labs.

WMed builds upon Kalamazoo’s century-long foundation of drug discovery and medical device development with a strategic investment in clinical, laboratory, community, and educational research. The Center for Immunobiology, Center for Clinical Research, Research Histology Lab, Innovation Center, and Human Research Protection Program contribute to the medical school’s advancement of knowledge through innovation and discovery. 

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer of females, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans, and actively strives to increase diversity within its community. We provide a drug- and tobacco-free workplace. 

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