University of Minnesota Morris
Position Announcement: Office of Community Engagement Assistant Coordinator
University Classification: 4912 Community Program Assistant Term: K (10 month)
Position Working Title: Assistant Coordinator Type: part-time
Position reports to: Community Engagement Coordinator
Purpose of the position: The Office of Community Engagement works to involve students in meaningful, reciprocal partnerships with the regional and broader community, including one-time and ongoing volunteer opportunities, monthly and annual programs/events, student-directed projects, and service-learning courses. This position assists in coordinating Community Engagement co-curricular programming for students. This is a 50% time appointment available in August 2015.
Position responsibilities:
- Oversee two Community Engagement co-curricular programs. (80%)
The program assistant will oversee two of the following four programs, assigned to align with the successful candidate’s skill sets, educational background, and interests.
Community ESL (English as a Second Language): Explain the program to individuals interested in program services, partnerships, and service opportunities. Work with a team to coordinate outreach to Latino community, student pre-testing, student enrollment and attendance tracking, and assessment of student learning. Maintain positive relationships with a wide range of program partners. Recruit volunteer teachers and tutors, including UMM students and community members, and provide ongoing training, reflection opportunities, and feedback on lesson plans. Conduct classroom observations; provide feedback to tutors and teachers. Coordinate program budget and assessment. Supervise student leaders involved in the program.
Note: Applicants holding a bachelor’s or master’s degree in English as a second language, applied linguistics, bilingual education, or a related degree will be considered for an additional, externally funded 25% appointment supporting this program.
ESL TREC (Tutoring, Reading, and Empowering Children) Program: Explain the program to individuals interested in program services, partnerships, and service opportunities. Work with a team to coordinate outreach to Latino community, student pre-testing, student enrollment and attendance tracking, and assessment of student learning. Maintain positive relationships with a wide range of program partners. Recruit volunteer teachers and tutors, including UMM students and community members, and provide ongoing training, reflection opportunities, and feedback on lesson plans. Conduct classroom observations; provide feedback to tutors and teachers. Coordinate program budget and assessment.Supervise student leaders involved in the program.
Community-Building Monthly Programs: Coordinate the Morris Community Meal and Soup and Substance programs. Explain these programs to individuals and groups interested in program services, partnerships, and service opportunities. Recruit co-sponsors. Arrange and oversee event planning meetings, including scheduling, setting agendas, leading, reporting and following up on meeting outcomes. Coordinate public relations for each event. Recruit volunteers. Provide relevant pre-service training for volunteers as well as opportunities reflection on learning outcomes related to the volunteer’s engagement. Oversee program budgets. Implement assessment processes; complete an assessment report for each event; communicate outcomes to sponsors and others; oversee student employees assigned as leaders to these programs. For community meal: Oversee food purchasing, meal planning, meal preparation, serving, participant engagement and clean up. For Soup and Substance: Solicit topics from community partners, campus offices and disciplines, and student organizations. Coordinate dialogue planning meetings. Research and create “Ideas for Action” related to each topic. Supervise student leaders involved in the program.
Days of Service and other Annual Events: Work with a wide range of campus and community partners to create detailed plans for service opportunities on four days of service and at least three additional annual programs each year. Coordinate public relations for each event.
Recruit volunteers. Provide pre-service training for volunteers as appropriate to the program. Provide opportunities for volunteers to reflect on learning outcomes related to their engagement. Oversee program budgets.Implement assessment processes; complete an assessment report for each event; communicate outcomes to sponsors and others; oversee student employees assigned as leaders to these programs. Coordinate group leader recruitment and training, volunteer recruitment, logistics, pre-service training, and reflection. Supervise student leaders involved in the program.
- Assist with other co-curricular Community Engagement programs. (20%)
Provide volunteer supervision, logistical assistance, and assessment support as needed for all programs.
Essential knowledge, skills and abilities: The position requires a High School diploma/GED; the ability to work daytime and evening hours that will vary week to week, including occasional weekend hours; excellent organizational skills, and an ability to juggle and prioritize multiple responsibilities; excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to adjust communication for multiple and varied on and off-campus audiences.
Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities: Additional education beyond high school and a year or more of experience are preferred. Experience with education such as a Minnesota teaching license; demonstrated ability to work closely with and inspire college students’ commitment to community engagement and leadership development; experience teaching, creating and/or conducting training or other programming for small and large groups; and/or other experience working with children is preferred. The demonstrated ability to work effectively with people of diverse backgrounds, and supervisory and/or team leadership experience are preferred. Restaurant or cooking experience, particularly using fresh and local ingredients; Serve Safe training; Spanish language fluency and technological proficiency are also preferred.
Physical and/or environmental requirements: Office environment including standing and sitting at desk and regular use of personal computer. Work in the community in a variety of settings and locations, both indoors and outside, including the ability to engage in fast-paced and occasionally physically demanding work.
For a copy of the job posting or to apply for this position go to the University of Minnesota Employment System at http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/. The job id # is 302730. Applications will be accepted until position is filled but review will begin after July 23, 2015.