Deadline: August 29, 2013
As one of the three centers of distinction at Santa Clara University, the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education (ICJE) promotes and enhances the distinctively Jesuit, Catholic tradition of education at the university. Among its signature programs is the Weekly Engagement Program, which links academic classes with engagement in the community. Each year, we place over 1200 undergraduates with 50-60 community partners in order to foster experiential learning for social justice (ELSJ). Through such placements we support the undergraduate core curriculum, which requires all undergraduates to take a course that satisfies an ELSJ requirement. In addition, the Ignatian Center is in the initial phases of developing the SCU Thriving Neighbors Initiative (TNI), a place-based project that will forge ties and mutually beneficial projects between different university units and a distinct geographical region near downtown San Jose.
The Director of Community-based Learning (DCBL) will provide strategic leadership and direction for all aspects of the Ignatian Center’s programs in Community-based learning, including the Weekly Engagement Program and the Thriving Neighbors Initiative. He or she will collaborate with a wide range of people, in the university and in the community, to assure the successful fulfillment of the Ignatian Center’s educational goals and objectives and to foster programs that mutually benefit students and community partners. The DCBL supervises the CBL team, consisting of three 11-month program directors, and assures proper supervision of other post-baccalaureate volunteer positions. This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the Executive Director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.