2024-08-05
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2024-09-04
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Virtual Opportunity
The mission of The Mentoring Project (TMP) is to support the success of low-income college students. The Mentoring Project pairs community volunteer mentors with college students to provide guidance as they navigate their path to postsecondary degree or certificate completion. TMP also produces and promotes virtual career panels for college students. Founded in 2021, The Mentoring Project has served over 120 students at 26 college campuses. The AmeriCorps VISTA Community Impact Lead will provide critical momentum, initiative, and outreach to sustain, expand and build capacity of the program by coordinating and expanding the cohort of students. Specifically, the role is to work closely as part of a small team to build organizational capacity to engage more students. JOB SCOPE, Key functions: Student Recruitment: Establish student referral pipelines by initiating and building relations with campus advisors (e.g., financial aid, academic and mental health). Recruit students by working with campus and community partners and programs such as MESA, TRIO and PROMISE. Develop advertising and promotional material for recruitment and outreach. Liaison with Student Ambassador to peer recruit. Build student peer-recruit networks on community college campuses. Mentor Recruitment, Training & Support Support co-AmeriCorps Member as necessary to recruit volunteer mentors from various industries by building connections with existing partner organizations and building new networks. Activities related to recruiting mentors include: advertising of volunteer mentor positions, scheduling and conducting interviews. Promote benefits of mentorship and how support from a mentor can provide critical assistance in overcoming obstacles faced by low income, adult students enrolled in Washington State colleges and provide a longer-term impact that will lead to students’ academic success and career readiness. Update campus and community resource contacts on the website and encourage mentor awareness about how to guide students to use these support services. Participate in virtual mentor chat groups Promote and inspire mentor attendance at mentor chat groups. Student-Mentor Matches Participate in matching and assignment of new mentor/student pairs. Participate in monitoring student-mentor relationships to provide guidance to mentors on best practices; serve as the key mentor contact for improvement of mentor/student relations; provide support and encouragement to mentors so that they may best serve students; review and assess mentor/student pairs. Career Panels Contributor to creating, producing and promoting career panels including recruitment of panelists and generating interest by promoting and encouraging attendance at career panels. Communication Promote how support from a mentor can provide critical assistance in overcoming obstacles faced by low-income students and provide a longer-term impact that will lead to students’ academic success and career readiness. Maintain regular communication with the student and mentor cohort by creating periodic alerts and newsletters about important events and academic and financial aid deadlines and other relevant student affairs topics. Monitor and support mentor relationships to provide guidance on best practices, resources and serve as a key student contact to improve mentor/student relations. Program Assessment, Evaluation & Development Participate in weekly meetings to review and assess mentor/student pairs Improve digital processes used for data tracking of mentor/student participation and whether students self-indication of need or support has been addressed. Administer and collect digital evaluation forms at the end of each match. Contribute to strategic planning about building capacity to serve more students. Analyze, present and report program results on occasion. Obtain digital and written student testimonials to use for outreach, recruitment purposes, and to enhance grant writing and promotional materials. Support development efforts to gain potential donors. QUALIFICATIONS: A desire to make a difference in the lives of many by serving in a meaningful and rewarding role. Ideally, you will bring to the organization creativity, passion, energy and dedication in addition to: Experience working with BIPOC students from low-income backgrounds in an educational or community setting including understanding of barriers to degree completion. Administrative, technical and project management skills. Open communication and leadership skills with an ability to give constructive and appropriate feedback Proficiency with business software including Google Suite and the Microsoft Office Suite. Problem-solving skills and the ability to motivate others to find solutions and resources. Desire to work with multiple stakeholders including students, volunteer mentors and campus partners by providing leadership, direction, and resource information. Sense of humor and the ability to bring perspective and levity to challenging situations. Additional desired qualifications A masters degree in education, public administration, non-profit management or a related area. Experience with SquareSpace.
Date Posted: 2024-07-26