ERG Officer - DisabilityThe ERG Officer manages an ERG committee represented in one of the ERG Strategic Goals. In conjunction with their leadership team, the ERG Officer shall appoint special subcommittees to ensure the functions and duties of the Employee Resource Group are completed. Additional duties include managing the budget, ERG reporting, mentorship, and developing a successor and new members. The ERG Officer may be asked to represent the ERG at meetings throughout the organization. Through working with respective Governance and the Executive Sponsor, this role allows for real-time development and coaching for enhanced leadership skills as evidenced through influencing without authority, persuasive presentations, excellence in process management, and energizing our people.Furthermore, leadership development is enhanced by demonstrating our SNHU Core Values. ERG Officers learn and are expected to comfortably demonstrate professional courage, excellence in stakeholder engagement, strong communications, networking, and collaboration skills to deliver results through others. ERG Officers obtain greater self-awareness and increased interpersonal savvy.ERG Officers are typically staff-level employees and are recognized as having potential. Having taken on a role such as this, these leaders ultimately exhibit improved business acumen, strategic planning, and decision-making. They typically demonstrate greater intercultural fluency and improved appreciation for managing a diversity of perspectives and people in pursuit of results aligned to the business and the Standing Together for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (STEDI) Strategy #3, "Create and foster a culture and community that promotes a sense of belonging for all."

Overseeing a diverse portfolio of students, I guide undergraduate and graduate students through SNHU programs and activities designed to support academic success and lead them to graduation. I collaborate with students to develop long-term and short-term goals, build positive and productive relationships, and track their progress to conceptualize strategies to help them excel. I partner with cross-departmental university faculty and staff to organize, plan, and execute ideas and programs designed to help students succeed.• Utilize excellent organizational skills to track an extensive caseload of students, evaluating daily metrics to monitor goals and track progress.• Lead the onboarding training for new hires, creating training curriculum and sessions designed to teach university best practice policies and procedures, mission, and ethics.• Exceed university enrollment and retention goals, implementing innovative outreach initiatives to increase university reach and interest.• Maximize excellent leadership skills to co-chair weekly policy team meetings to ensure departmental-wide compliance with FERPA.• Pioneered educational webinars, utilizing excellent communication and presentation skills to serve as the lead guest speaker.• Championed over 700 students to graduation.

As a leading adjunct professor, I facilitate innovative, high-quality academic instruction for diverse students studying the Human Services field. I coordinate with student advisors and academic teams, engineering classroom structures designed to motivate and empower students to overcome obstacles and succeed.• Implement time management strategies to facilitate efficient turnaround timelines for grades and project plans.• Outperform faculty expectations term after term, providing substantial student feedback and academically engaging instruction.