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Partner with schools, related extracurricular activities like FFA, and alternative school to build community skills.
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Partner with schools, related extracurricular activities like FFA, and alternative school to build community skills to recruit volunteers for the Master Gardner program. This program is held three times a year with established curriculum.
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Build Developmental Assets within identified high barrier youth (such as self-esteem, responsibility, achievement motivation).
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Build Developmental Assets, for example, constructive use of time, school engagement and decision-making skills, within identified high barrier youth. This would be accomplished by using systems and tools provided by the program and with the support of program staff.
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Promote effective teamwork among staff and volunteers
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Promote effective teamwork among staff and volunteers on the build site by:
- ensuring there is good communication all day long;
- that everyone continues to know who to go to with questions and concerns;
- there is always a staff person in charge and visible to the volunteers;
- if there is conflict it is handled quickly and professionally;
- that safety remains everyone’s top concern.
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Accurately and professionally discuss with community partners and volunteers the objectives of AmeriCorps, the Mentor marketing initiative, and the Mentor Advantage Program
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Make connections in the community and create community partnerships to increase number of program participants. This can include face to face meetings with individuals and groups interested in partnering with the mentoring program or attending other community activities to make connections to the Mentor program.
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Facilitating single and group activities including a variety of literacy activities
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Integrate educational and leadership components into projects using icebreakers, team builders, service-learning and reflection activities that promote teamwork and social interaction while increasing participates ability to read.
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Assist with youth programs and year round community outreach
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Maintain regular communication with local youth, schools, agencies and colleagues throughout the program network to promote current projects, plan new opportunities, and share achievements.
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Volunteer Engagement Coordinator will develop, enhance, and implement a short and long term engagement plan to align community efforts behind engagement goals. This includes working with other AmeriCorps members to understand their area’s engagement needs and opportunities as well as existing community resources that can support those goals.
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Review, update, and carry out comprehensive recruitment and on-boarding strategy for volunteers with the strategic goal of increasing the number of volunteer-led activities in the area; this may include creating recruitment materials, as well as promoting and building clubs through meetings, presentations, recruitment events, and online volunteer websites.
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Coordinate the placement of volunteers into appropriate roles such as team leaders, program event volunteers, team mentors, subject matter experts, board committee members, and organizational support roles
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Maintain accurate records and tracking of volunteer engagement through database entry and utilization
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Create content for the local College’s newly updated website and other social media, particularly as it relates to interactions with community partners and other Civic Engagement sponsored programs.
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Design informational/educational material for the social media and web platforms; train staff and volunteers on maintaining website, Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn to build capacity for the local College.
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Develop and maintain weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions.
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Develop and maintain a weekly tutoring schedule to allow for approximately 15 – 20 students (full-time members) to receive daily 20-minute, one-on-one tutoring sessions
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