Job ID

MJ9945-0511-1863

Position Classification

FT Administrator - Major Director

Position Summary

The Associate Dean for Student Affairs provides leadership for student formation and services, promoting a student-centered law school environment that supports academic excellence, fosters ethical development, and encourages student engagement with, and integration of, professional values with all aspects of their personal, academic, spiritual, and public lives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Promote a student-centered law school environment that supports students’ academic excellence.  

• Supervise and lead the Student Service Center team, including the Director of Exam Administration, by assessing and coordinating the activities of this department to promote efficient and student-centered processes and services. Services include parking permits, student IDs, posting tuition payments, exam administration, and faculty support assignments. 
• Set and monitor department goals and expectations through regular meetings, training, and professional development of all Student Service Center staff 
• Promote collaboration between offices and units, ensuring a smooth flow of information between administration, faculty, and students. 
• Serve as ex officio member of faculty committees as assigned by the Dean of the Law School.  
• Serve as a member of the Law School Leadership Team and on University committees and facilitate communication among other administrative offices and units across the Law School and the University.  
• Attend meetings of student organizations as necessary to update students on Law School events and policies and receive student input. 
• Serve as the Deputy Title IX coordinator at the School of Law. 
• Serve as member of the DSO team. 
• Advise students with regard to policies governing academic performance, the petitions process for grade appeals and waivers of dismissal, the ABA Complaint Policy, and the Civil Rights Grievance process. 
• In coordination with faculty and other administrators, assess and propose revisions to School of Law policies and supervise updates to the Student Handbook as needed. 

2. Foster students’ ethical development and professional formation.  

• Develop, implement, and manage ongoing programming that ensures students learn and internalize the ethical expectations of the Law School and of the profession and helps them to integrate the values of legal professionalism into their academic, personal, and spiritual lives. 
• Administer the Community Standards Code, including advising students involved in those processes or helping them secure advisors, as needed. 
• Assist the Honor Council in administering the Honor Code and advise students involved with those procedures. 

3. Encourage students’ engagement with and integration of professional values with all aspects of their personal, academic, spiritual, and public lives.  

• Advise students encountering personal, health, familial, and other issues. Provide referrals to University and community resources. Counsel students regarding availability of leaves of absence, changes in student status, and transfers, and approve such requests. 
• Develop programming that assist student organizations to identify and plan to achieve overall and yearly goals for their organization. Serve as primary advisor to the Student Bar Association. Assist student organizations to ensure smooth transitions among leadership from year to year. 
• In collaboration with an advisory group of administrators, faculty, and students, develop, implement, and manage an ongoing Wellness Program that educates students on the physical, spiritual, and intellectual components of wellness and helps them develop personal wellness strategies for law school and professional life.
• Manage major student events such as graduation and recognition ceremonies; assist with orientation. 
• Promote services and programs available to students through the University.

Minimum Qualifications

Education – A college degree and a professional certificate or graduate degree; or 10 or more years of work experience in a related field.
Experience – Seven years to ten years (Equivalent combination of education and employment).

Preferred Qualifications  

JD degree preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

Strong leadership and organizational skills.

Physical Requirements

Job may require lifting light weight objects (1 to 10 pounds) with no repetitive bending or stooping. Occasionally lift average weight objects (1 to 10 pounds).

Work Environment  

Regular exposure to favorable conditions such as those found in a normal office.

Salary/Pay Information

Commensurate with experience

Anticipated Schedule  

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Employee Benefits

At the University of Detroit Mercy, we continually strive to provide a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package to our valued employees. We offer our employees the following benefits: 

• Medical -

o Three health plans to choose from with a large national provider network

•Dental -

o UDM’s School of Dentistry FREE to you and your dependents

o Option to purchase additional dental plan through UNUM

•Vision – 

o Under United Healthcare, you are able to get one exam every 24 months

o Under Heritage Vision, an eye exam and lenses (not Frame) are provided every 12 months

        (Plans are available to employees to purchase as an option)

• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts offered

• Employee Assistance Program -

o Provided to everyone in your household

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

• Life and AD&D 

o 1x base salary up to  Dollar One Hundred Thousand. 

• Option to purchase additional life insurance, accident insurance, and/or critical illness insurance

• Tuition Remission Benefit for you, your spouse, and children. 

• Retirement Plan -

o UDM provides matches up to 8%

Michigan’s largest, most comprehensive private University, University of Detroit Mercy is an independent Catholic institution of higher education sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and Society of Jesus. Detroit Mercy seeks qualified candidates who will contribute to the University’s mission, diversity, and excellence of its academic community. University of Detroit Mercy is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer with a diverse student body and welcomes persons of all backgrounds.