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Current Issue - September 2007 Job Opportunities
Volunteer Specialist: Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA NEW!
The Volunteer Specialist will serve as the connection between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs to create and promote programming that links community based services to classroom students and experiences. The position will build relations with community agencies and connect needs of the community to academic coursework that relates to these needs. Additionally, the Volunteer Specialist will promote a sense of civic engagement within the university by further developing existing volunteer opportunities and creating new opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.
Salary Range: Minimum $24,969 to Midpoint $31,226 Application Deadline: October 5, 2007
Applications are available at http://jobs.georgiasouthern.edu.
YOUTHNOISE: Director of Community Organizing - San Francisco, CA NEW! YOUTH NOISE is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, nonprofit global social networking site for young people (16-22) who want to be a force for social change. Based in San Francisco, YOUTHNOISE represents an important trend in technology: the vertical specialization of social networks around specific interests, with 100% of content user generated. YOUTH NOISE is looking for a Director of Community Organizing of the YouthNoise (YN) Education Program who will be responsible for outreach to community based organizations in the State of California that serve the youth market and have specific interest in engaging youth in education reform. This individual will be responsible for managing planning efforts for the Program particularly as they relate to involving communities of youth, and for the ongoing outreach requirements of the program to assure that all youth are invited to engage in the Program. To learn more, visit http://www.youthnoise.org Youth Service America: Grants Assistant - Washington, DC NEW!Youth Service America seeks bright, upbeat individual to work with the Grants Department in support of the Grants and Awards program. Position is full-time, temporary through March 2007. The selected candidate must have strong writing and computer skills, basic experience with spreadsheet programs (preferably Excel). The ideal candidate is independent and takes initiative, but also knows how to work effectively as part of a team. The Grant Assistant will work directly with and report to the Senior Grant Manager for Strategic Initiatives and the Grant Manager for Learning and Evaluation. To learn more about the position and specific responsibilities, visit http://servenet.org/tabid/293/ctl/ArticleView/mid/792/articleId/321/Youth-Service-America -Grants-Assistant.aspx Texas Campus Compact Americorps VISTA @Texas Christian University (TCU) NEW! Texas Campus Compact promotes and supports community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages collaborative partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research. The TCU Center for Community Involvement and Service-Learning, works to foster social responsibility and lifelong learning through community engagement and service-learning at TCU. Duties include the following: 1. Increase the awareness of service-learning on campus and demonstrate how service-learning can be integrated into educational courses; 2. Promote community service and volunteerism to benefit needy communities, by partnering with community based organizations including faith-based organizations that provide social services; 3. To increase student leadership to benefit communities and increase civic engagement; 4. Promote the mission of Student Development Services. For more information or to submit your resume please contact annl@stedwards.edu or 512-233-1651. Or apply online at https://recruit.cns.gov/
University of Wisconsin-Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension AmeriCorps*VISTA Position NEW! The VISTA member will work with Wisconsin Food Security Consortium, a collaboration of Hunger Coalitions; as a statewide UW-Extension Poverty and Food Insecurity team of extension, faculty and UW-Colleges faculty. The VISTA will conduct poverty and hunger forums, create service-learning experiences for students, increase awareness of poverty and hunger, and work with hunger coalitions to increase availability and accessibility of local assistance programs. The VISTA will work in both urban and rural communities and with Native American, African American and Latino communities. The VISTA will be a valued colleague on several efforts planning and conducting conferences, leading action planning efforts with Hunger Coalitions and teaching community partners to increase hunger and poverty awareness. The VISTA will be able to choose specific projects based on interests and skills. The VISTA will be based in Madison but will have opportunities to work statewide. The position will begin November 13, 2007 and end on November 16, 2008.
Senior Research Associate Visit http://www.incommunityresearch.org/about/aboutjobannouncements.htm for more information. Closing Date: October 15, 2007
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