Posse Miami Writing Coach Volunteer Opportunity

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About Posse: The Posse Foundation, a dynamic youth leadership development and scholarship program, identifies, recruits and selects student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called "Posses." These teams are then prepared through an intensive eight-month Pre-Collegiate Training Program for enrollment at top universities nationwide to pursue higher education and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus. The Posse Program has demonstrated great success over the past twenty years, placing 6,993 students at top colleges and universities. Since 1989, Posse Scholars have won over $932 million in scholarships from Posse partner universities and are persisting and graduating at 90% -- higher than the national averages at top institutions of higher education. In 2016, the Posse Program in Miami received over 1,400 nominations, selecting 60 students to receive over six million dollars in scholarships to Syracuse University, Franklin and Marshall College, Mount Holyoke College, Pomona College, Davidson College, and Hamilton College.

Volunteer Description:

As we start Pre-Collegiate Training, we are excited to recruit a new group of Writing Coaches to work with our recently selected scholars! Our coaches are an essential part of our Writing Program and play such a critical role in helping promote academic excellence to our Posse Scholars. We are seeking individual Writing Coaches, where you will be assigned 2-3 scholars as well as group Writing Coaches, where you will be assigned a Posse of 10 students.

Individual Writing Coach detailed responsibilities include:

• Meet with assigned Scholar for 4 one-hour long sessions from March to July 2017, at the Posse Miami office or other public spaces.
• Help Scholars identify their writing strengths and weaknesses.
• Provide tailored feedback on how Scholars can improve their writing.
• Issue a final "report" of a Scholar’s strengths and areas for improvement.
• Help deepen Scholar understanding of the ways writing promotes leadership.
• Provide formal feedback on research paper development, citations, structure and thesis.

Group Writing Coach detailed responsibilities include:

• Facilitate a total of 4 two-hour long Writing Workshops with support from Posse Staff from March to July 2017, at the Posse Miami office.
• Support Scholars in their writing process for an assigned research paper.
• Provide tailored feedback on how Scholars can improve their writing.
• Provide formal feedback on research paper development, citations, structure and thesis.

If interested, please apply here.

Bachelor's degree required.

All confirmed volunteers must attend an hour long orientation session held on February 17 th or February 21 st.

Deadline to apply: Friday, February 3 rd.