About this Job:

The Senior Week Co-Chairs are directly supervised by Campus Life staff and work with a variety of campus partners in supporting and promoting activities to celebrate the senior class, primarily events occurring during Senior Week; the week prior to Commencement. Due to the scope of the work, Two Co-Chairs are typically selected each year as individual hires that will work as a pair. Generally, Co-Chairs may expect to work 2-5 hours a week, with workload increasing as the end of the academic year approaches. Please note that the Co-Chairs work with their class and the Office of Advancement after graduation, through and including their five-year reunion, however only responsibilities undertaken during senior year are paid. The position transitions to volunteer after graduation.

Leadership Development
Campus Life embeds the Bates Leads Framework into its student leadership and employment positions. The following competencies are most relevant to this position:

Consciousness of Self & Impact: Awareness of one’s beliefs, values, attitudes, and emotions; recognition that these are shaped by cultural context and other external forces. Self-awareness, including one’s inherited and positional power and privilege. Awareness of one’s impact on individuals and community, recognizing the impact of each action and inaction
Senior Week Co-Chairs will be most successful if they are able to know their own strengths and apply that knowledge to their work with peers and campus partners.

Commitment: The passion, energy, creativity, and follow-through one brings to ideas, pursuits, and collective goals.
This position involves a high level of responsibility, and requires individuals to capitalize on their passion for making a difference in the Bates community. Persistence and follow-through are often necessary to making initiatives a reality.

Collaboration: Working reciprocally with others. Working across differences to achieve a shared goal. Bringing multiple perspectives, diverse experiences, and individual creativity to bear on a pursuit.
This position requires working with the other Co-Chair, Campus Life staff, Advancement staff, Dining, Conferences, and Campus Events staff, constituents, and other members of the Bates community.

Common Purpose: Cultivating a shared goal, direction, and sense of responsibility.
This position requires creating a shared vision for Senior Week, and a shared sense of purpose and responsibility.

Controversy: Acknowledging conflict, controversy, and dissent as opportunities for new insight, or new direction or deeper relationships. Disagreeing with others in a spirit of curiosity and learning. Disagreeing or dissenting from the norm without dehumanizing others.
At times, Co-Chairs may disagree with each other or with the Bates community members they are working with. It is crucial in these moments to communicate honestly, openly, respectfully, and to work to resolve conflict through collaboration and compromise.