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Summary: 

The Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) Graduate Student Assistant for the Center for Student Involvement reports to the Coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life and provides advising and leadership development in areas of recruitment, risk management, member education, leadership training, and programming for the community.

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) is the hub for the student experience at American University. CSI facilitates leadership development, organizational advising, and programs that help foster a sense of belonging for the next generation of changemakers. Our office is home to Student Government, Student Activities Council, Student Media, Student Organizations, Fraternity & Sorority Life, and the Graduate Leadership Council.  

Essential Functions:  

• Serve as the co-advisor to a designated FSL governing council (e.g., IFC, NPHC, Panhellenic), providing strategic guidance and mentorship to executive officers on governance, organizational development, policy interpretation, and budget management.

• Serve as an advisor to Professional Greek Organizations, guiding them in organizational development, strategic event planning, and ensuring full compliance with all University policies and procedures.

• Coordinate the planning and execution of the Fall and Spring New Member Series educational program, including communicating requirements to chapter leadership, tracking mandatory attendance records, and holding regular office hours.

• Manage and implement the comprehensive marketing and communications strategy for the Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) community, overseeing content creation for all digital and print platforms to promote recruitment, signature events, and community standards.

• Assist in design and implementation of targeted leadership development curriculum and training programs for FSL chapter and council executive officers, delivered through mandatory retreats, specialized workshops, and officer transition meetings.

• Serve as an administrator for the Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) section of the Engage platform, ensuring compliance, event submissions, membership roster management, and required form submissions.

• Actively represent FSL interests and contribute to required weekly Center for Student Involvement (CSI) and FSL staff meetings, 1:1s with the Assistant Director, and FSL governing council meetings.

• Provide direct operational support for campus-wide Center for Student Involvement (CSI) events, including large-scale Involvement Fairs and Late Night and Weekend programming, requiring flexible evening and weekend schedules.

• Assist in managing ongoing educational efforts related to hazing prevention, ensuring the Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) community's compliance with all university and state anti-hazing policies and mandatory reporting requirements.

Competencies:

• Advising and Supporting: Addresses the knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to providing advising and support to individuals and groups through direction, feedback, critique, referral, and guidance. Through developing advising and supporting strategies that take into account self-knowledge and the needs of others, we play critical roles in advancing the holistic wellness of ourselves, our students, and our colleagues.

• Leadership: The Leadership competency area addresses the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required of a leader, with or without positional authority. Leadership involves both the individual role of a leader and the leadership process of individuals working together to envision, plan, and effect change in organizations and respond to broad-based constituencies and issues. This can include working with students, student affairs colleagues, faculty, and community members.

• Organizational and Human Resources: The Organizational and Human Resources competency area includes knowledge, skills, and dispositions used in the management of institutional human capital, financial, and physical resources. This competency area recognizes that student affairs professionals bring personal strengths and grow as managers through challenging themselves to build new skills in the selection, supervision, motivation, and formal evaluation of staff; resolution of conflict; management of the politics of organizational discourse; and the effective application of strategies and techniques associated with financial resources, facilities management, fundraising, technology, crisis management, risk management, and sustainable resources.

• Student Learning and Development: The Student Learning and Development competency area addresses the concepts and principles of student development and learning theory. This includes the ability to apply theory to improve and inform student affairs and teaching practice.

• Technology: The Technology competency area focuses on the use of digital tools, resources, and technologies for the advancement of student learning, development, and success as well as the improved performance of student affairs professionals. Included within this area are knowledge, skills, and dispositions that lead to the generation of digital literacy and digital citizenship within communities of students, student affairs professionals, faculty members, and colleges and universities.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

• Part-time.

• 20 hours per week.

• Hybrid modality.

• Late-night and weekend programming as needed.

 Salary Range:

• $18.95 per hour.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required. 

• Admittance to the HESA program.

• Undergraduate student programming experience. 

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Membership in a recognized fraternity/sorority.

• Experience with marketing, graphic/design.

• Experience in and/or working with fraternities and sororities and leadership development.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Strong organization skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to adapt to and work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

• Ability to work effectively with diverse constituencies.

• Ability to work collaboratively.

Other Details

• This position is available only to enrolled American University students.

• Please note this job announcement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• American University is an E-Verify employer.

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