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free to contact me.
Thank
you,
Megan
Voorhees
Director,
Cal Corps Public Service Center
Assistant
Dean of Students
UC
Berkeley
Tel.
510-642-1081
Fax:
510-642-1672
Address:
102 Sproul Hall #2430, Berkeley, CA 94720
Service
Coordinator for Student Groups
Cal Corps Public
Service Center
Department Overview:
Founded in 1967 by students, the Cal Corps Public Service
Center (http://publicservice.berkeley.edu)
partners with the community, student leaders and faculty to engage over 4,000
students each year through community service, jobs, internships, and courses. The Public Service Center’s mission is to connect
ideas, resources, and people to act for social justice, build healthy
communities, and foster life-long commitments to public service. The
Center is committed to fostering student development with most of its
co-curricular programs being managed by student leaders with the support,
training, advising and supervision from Center career staff.
Responsibilities:
The Service Coordinator for Student Groups serves as the
front-line point of contact for students and community organizations seeking to
get involved in social action projects through the Center. The
Coordinator’s primary role is to act as a coach and advisor to individuals and
student organizations. The Coordinator manages the Student-Initiated
Community Projects Program, the Center’s longest running program which provides
grants, training and coaching for 25-30 student organizations a year. The
Coordinator is also the point person for outreach to Fraternity and Sorority
Life, Student Housing Cooperatives and the Cal Service Network and is
responsible for coordinating all one-time service events or projects.
The Coordinator manages the Center’s volunteer placement
services, including front-desk advising to drop-in students, a monthly
e-newsletter for 5000+ subscribers, and managing communications with the 350
agencies registered with the Center through the Center’s campus-community
partnership database and a quarterly e-newsletter.
·
Student-Initiated Community Projects Program-
Oversee recruitment and selection for the program, provide regular coaching,
conduct site visits as needed, work with other staff to provide quality
leadership training, oversee grant disbursement, maintain communication with all
groups, and disseminate resources to group leaders.
·
Student Outreach and Advising:
Provide general coaching and support to students and student groups planning
one-time and short term service projects, including: training and
advising Fraternity and Sorority Life Philanthropy and Service Chairs, and
appropriate student leaders at Student Housing Cooperatives. Support
existing student coalitions including Cal Service Network and Poverty and
Homelessness Symposium planning team.
·
Community Agency Support: Manage
Center’s general email account and telephone line, responding to requests.
Oversee Center partnership with VolunteerMatch.org, including cultivating
relationships and services for local community-based organizations, and
ensuring student use of database’s tracking and service evaluation
components.
·
Student Supervision: Responsible for the
daily supervision of 2 part-time AmeriCorps Bonner Leaders that coordinate the
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, and 2 Student Assistants.
·
Event Coordination: Responsible for
the coordination of various outreach and service events to include: service
fairs, relevant career fairs, and new student orientation presentations.
Required Qualifications:
·
The ability to put into practice strong
knowledge of student development theories, leadership and management theories,
supervision and coaching theories, community development and service-learning
theory, ethical development and values clarification.
·
Strong student service programming experience to
include; conception, implementation, assessment and evaluation.
·
Grounding in social change and social justice
and the ability to coach students to excellence in these areas
·
Strong ability to counsel in order to mediate
conflict, problem-solve, and respond appropriately to concerns and needs of
various constituents.
·
Exceptional
communication skills to include verbal and written, active listening, critical
thinking, problem solving, advising, motivating and counseling.
·
Knowledge of University risk management policies
and risk management strategies used in service-learning activities to minimize
risk, program complexity and cost.
·
Proven leadership skills clearly demonstrated by
the ability to supervise, teach, influence, and inspire students as well as
community partners.
·
Experience working within a diverse population.
·
Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or
equivalent experience/training.
·
Strong supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
·
3-5 years of experience and/or a Master’s Degree
in related field (community development, community organizing, social services,
student affairs, higher education, or other).
Salary:
Salary is commensurate with experience. Range between
$50,000-$62,300/annually and full benefits
To apply: Please go to http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ and search for
Job ID # 15768. Position open until filled, first review is May 24, 2013.
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