Working with a team in Loyola’s Center for Experiential Learning and reporting to the Director of Experiential Learning, the Assistant Director, Academic Internships position is an essential part of the community-based learning team connecting high-impact learning practices through curriculum development. Working closely with faculty, community partners, and students, the responsibilities are highlighted below connecting academic internships to service-learning, undergraduate research, and learning portfolios in Loyola’s Center for Experiential Learning. Please share with interested parties broadly.
Major Responsibilities:
– Administers all aspects of the undergraduate academic internship program including, developing internship placements, cultivating and maintaining relationships with department faculty/staff internship coordinators, communicating regularly with key constituents to collaborate and communicate internship policies and procedures college-wide.
– Advocates for enhancing experiential learning courses
– Develops strong educational/curricular infrastructure for academic internships working with faculty instructors
– Develops consistency of experience for undergraduate students in academic internships across university
-Cultivates relationships with community partners, developing supervisors as co-educators to develop on-going internship opportunities for Loyola students across all disciplines.
– Empower key civic, community, cultural, and business organizations to advance academic internship opportunities to be educational for students.
– Facilitates students navigation of on-campus resources to identify academic internship courses
-Partners with campus resources (e.g., career development centers) to guide students into programs and resources to support learning and exploration
– Presents on academic internship in classes and other programs to prepare students pursuing internships for academic credit.
– Teaches UNIV 390 Internship Seminar course each semester to provide students with an academic internship course focused on civic professionalism that meets the Engaged Learning University Requirement.
– Provide one-on-one consultations with faculty on curriculum development, partner relationships, conflict management, etc.
-Support faculty development of administrative tasks in order to also develop partners as co-educators, make connections to course
-Develop curriculum in academic internship courses to achieve deeper learning, connecting academic and experiential knowledge
-Curating resources across the community-based learning, service-learning, work-based learning literature to inform pedagogical approach
– Coordinate a community of practice amongst internship faculty to support across disciplines
– Maintains university-wide internship and fieldwork program records and databases and produce reports on internships, including student placements and employer partnerships.
– Coordinates and tracks students in internship and fieldwork placements; monitors data and facilitate data input into the centralized database (Peoplesoft) for internship placement and fieldwork placement information.
– Establishes assessment and evaluation tools for the internship program including feedback forms for employers.
– Utilize data to inform program developments, e.g., partner capacity development, administrative supports needed, etc.
– Ensures best practices for academic internships with an emphasis on high-quality internships as goal
– Conducts site visits of internship sites, in collaboration with community-based learning team.
– Connects academic internship programs with other experiential learning programs, including service-learning, learning portfolios and undergraduate research.
– Facilitates leadership in the community-based learning team, fostering partners as co-educators
– Facilitates web-based tools and resources to enhance the academic internship program.
– Performs other duties as required.
Position Requirements:
– Master’s degree in Higher Education, Curriculum Development, or related field preferred.
– At least 3-5 years of experience working with internships, community-based learning and/or experiential learning is necessary.
Application Process:
If interested, only apply online; please do not send information via email. The quick link for applicants to apply is: http://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/6047