Job Description

The Associate Director will collaborate with campus partners to build a living, learning and work environment where students, faculty and staff can skillfully engage in constructive dialogue across difference. The Associate Director will introduce resources, tools, programs, and practices to promote a positive campus culture of open inquiry and to cultivate the conditions for thoughtful individual, intragroup and intergroup discourse across identities, power differentials and viewpoints. Through training, education and skill development, the Associate Director will enhance the campus community’s capacity to hold rich, respectful, and, at times, difficult conversations.The Associate Director of Community Dialogue will support Yale University’s efforts to develop and implement practices that encourage constructive dialogue in campus programs and activities. Reporting jointly to the Director of Restorative Practices and to the Chief of Staff to the Secretary and Vice President for University Life, the Associate Director will lead trainings and facilitate processes to cultivate community, encourage and support constructive dialogue and respond restoratively to a broad range of campus conflict and harm.