Community Partnerships is a collaborative effort that facilitates, for faculty and students, ways to incorporate community-based learning opportunities into both academic and extracurricular work. These opportunities take place in Yonkers, New York City, and other surrounding communities. The Assistant Director helps the Director develop, organize, coordinate and manage community service programs in which graduate and undergraduate students work in the community as part of their course work, or in a volunteer capacity.
Responsibilities include:
- Coordinates, selects, supervises and trains graduate and undergraduate students who participate in community programs
- Supervise and support students, who create and run Student-Led Initiatives and who work in the summer leadership program.
- Assist with all aspects of transportation needs
- Assist with pre-orientation program
- Coordinate all aspects of Day of Service activities
- Assist will all public relations to market and promote office programs to students and faculty and staff as well as community-based agencies in various ways including but not limited to: website updates, twitter account, Facebook, brochures, tabling, meetings, and email blasts to students affiliated with our office etc.
- Collaborate with other offices on campus to develop and support new program initiatives
- Assist Director with grant writing
- Participate in college-wide and faculty committees
- Assist with annual budget preparations
- Assist with managing and tracking budgets.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- BA, Master’s Degree preferred
- Experience in higher education a plus
- Able to work evenings and weekends
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of social media
- Able to oversee multiple projects at any given time
- Has a driver’s license and willing to drive a school van
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