Temporary Title IX Coordinator

wesleyan; Middletown (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT is seeking a Temporary Title IX Coordinator to advance a campus culture that is welcoming and inclusive for students, faculty and staff. Reporting to the VP for Equity and Inclusion, the coordinator will oversee Title IX compliance, coordinate investigations, training, and reporting while safeguarding privacy and impartiality through collaboration with campus partners.

This on‑campus role is up to 20 hours per week through March 31, 2027, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• At least six years of related professional experience.
• Knowledge of Title IX and federal regulations for higher education.
• Experience handling sensitive reports with impartial and trauma-informed approaches.
• Ability to maintain privacy, manage conflicts of interest, and communicate respectfully.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate compliance with Title IX across all programs and activities.
• Maintain a visible campus presence and inform reporting options and resources.
• Advise senior leadership on compliance risks and policy changes.
• Oversee investigations, interviews, evidence handling, and reporting.
• Coordinate training, records, and collaboration with campus offices.

Skills

Title IX knowledge

Investigation experience

Privacy & ethics

Trauma-informed practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelors degree or equivalent

Job description

The Temporary Title IX Coordinator supports work to create a campus culture that is welcoming and inclusive for students, faculty and staff from all backgrounds.

Reporting to the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, the Temporary Title IX Coordinator will serve as the designee and authorized coordinator of the University's compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and applicable federal regulations.

The Temporary Title IX Coordinator will work collaboratively with the Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Human Resources, Student Affairs, Public Safety, Counseling and Psychological Services, Disability and Accessibility services, and General Counsel, while maintaining appropriate independence, privacy, and freedom from conflicts of interest or bias.

This position will carry sufficient institutional authority and access to information and decision makers to coordinate prompt and effective compliance in accordance with the University's policies and processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate the University's efforts to comply with Title IX and 34 C.F.R. Part 106 across all education programs and activities, including admissions and employment.
• Maintain a visible and accessible campus presence and build awareness of reporting options, confidential resources, supportive measures, and protections against retaliation.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable federal and state requirements; advise senior leadership regarding compliance risks, regulatory developments, and needed policy or practice changes.
• Review, implement, and recommend revisions to the University's nondiscrimination policy, grievance procedures, notice of nondiscrimination, reporting information, and related protocols; confirm that required coordinator contact information and reporting instructions are published in required locations.

Response to reports and complaints

• Receive reports and complaints; conduct prompt jurisdictional and threshold assessments; explain the University's complaint procedures and available and appropriate informal and formal resolution processes. Initiate and oversee the applicable procedure when a complaint is made, provide required notices, monitor reasonably prompt timeframes according to University policy, communicate delays for good cause, and coordinate investigators, decision-makers, advisors, and informal resolution facilitators as needed.
• Develop investigation plans; interview parties and witnesses; gather, preserve, and assess documentary, electronic, and other evidence; distinguish relevant evidence from impermissible evidence; and prepare clear, neutral reports or evidence summaries.
• Promptly offer, coordinate, document, review, modify, and, when appropriate, continue or terminate individualized supportive measures for complainants and respondents. Coordinate required impartial review of challenges to supportive-measure decisions.
• When no complaint is made or allegations are withdrawn, make and document the fact-specific determination required by federal regulations as to whether the Coordinator should initiate a complaint; notify and support the complainant as required.
• Take or coordinate prompt and effective steps to end the discrimination, prevent its recurrence, remedy its effects, and protect equal access, regardless of whether a formal grievance process is initiated.
• Protect the privacy of parties and witnesses consistent with law, University policy, due process, and the parties' ability to participate meaningfully in the process; address and prevent retaliation.

Training, records, assessment and coordination

• Ensure that all students, faculty, and staff receive legally required annual Title IX training.
• Maintain the Title IX recordkeeping system, including records of reports, responses, supportive measures, complaints, investigations, informal resolutions, outcomes, remedies, and training materials, for at least the federally required retention period.
• Coordinate overlapping matters under Title VI, Title VII, Section 504/ADA, the Clery Act/VAWA, collective bargaining agreements, faculty and student conduct processes, and applicable state law with responsible offices and General Counsel as appropriate.

Other duties as assigned.

This is an on-campus position working up to 20hrs per week through March 31, 2027.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and directly relevant professional experience.
• At least six years of progressively responsible professional experience in Title IX, civil rights or equal opportunity compliance, investigations, complaint resolution or a related area.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Title IX and the federal regulatory framework applicable to postsecondary institutions.
• Experience responding to sensitive reports or complaints and applying fair, impartial, and trauma-informed practices.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain privacy, manage conflicts of interest, and communicate respectfully with s