RFE Announces Youth Outreach Coordinator position

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Youth Outreach Program Coordinator for The Race For Education

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree with a background and/or experience in Education

- Bilingual in Spanish

- A passion for teaching and working with children

- Experience working with grades 6-8 preferred, but not required

The day-to-day responsibilities are primarily administrative, and consist of but not limited to:

- Maintaining databases of participating and prospective students, as well as volunteers

- Individual communication follow-up with/recruitment of all participating/prospective students on the programming offered

- Recruiting volunteers to assist during programs and meetings

- Receiving and responding to incoming calls and emails regarding the outreach program

- Maintaining data on each student’s grades, attendance and “program points”

status for award determination

- Researching programming/speaker opportunities for program

- Reports to Student Services Manager

Additional responsibilities may include:

- Organizing and conducting volunteer trainings

- Development of mentoring program for participating students

- Organization of special events or field trips for students

- Participation in outreach on the farms and in the community

- Preparing and distributing newsletters, 2 per year

Hours: Regular hours will be 12 – 7 PM Tues – Friday 9AM – 1 PM Saturday

Salary: TBD