About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

The Director of the Office of Military and Veteran Services (OMVS) is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of all functions of OMVS. The Director designs, implements, administers, maintains, and assesses programs and services for military service members, student veterans, and eligible dependents. The Director advises student veterans and eligible dependents in accordance with federal, state, and system wide regulations. The Director serves as an advocate for and representative of military service members, veterans, and eligible dependents on campus, should have demonstrated knowledge of military veteran issues pertaining to successful educational development, evidence of professional development activities specifically in veteran services, working knowledge of VA-Once software, and the ability to communicate with an ethnically and culturally diverse campus community.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with graduate coursework in higher education, counseling and guidance or related field.
• Four years of professional experience in a student services program
• Previous experience providing services and programs to military service members, veterans, and eligible dependents in a higher education setting
• Knowledge of student success theory/application and an understanding of life experiences of veteran student populations.
• Knowledge of student development strategies and high-impact practices.
• Strong administrative, logistical, interpersonal, public speaking, and communication skills. Ability to build relationships across campus with faculty, staff and students.
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Ability to maintain an extensive level of confidentiality.
• Provides oversight and manage compliance for all veteran education benefits
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; ability to work effectively with a culturally diverse campus population

Preferred:

• Master's degree in counseling and guidance, higher education, college student personnel or related field.
• Two years working in military and veteran services in a higher education setting.
• Licenses / Certificates: SCO with VA ONCE System

Additional Information:

This is a regular, full-time position with the normal office hours of 8:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. However, this position sometimes works extra hours to complete important tasks. The number of months worked per year is 12.

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Submit a letter of interest, resume/CV, and contact information for three professional references and complete the online application by clicking the appropriate link in this posting. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.