Job Summary:
Provides a link between community placement sites and Service Learning students; serves as a liaison with Service Learning professors and their classes; enrolls students in community placements; maintains contact with agencies; provides information to and receives feedback from Service Learners, agencies, and faculty; and collaborates with other student coordinators on team and all-staff projects.
Students Placement/Monitoring Duties:
- Assists the administrative staff in preparing for student orientation, evaluation, and reflection sessions.
- Attends and conducts appropriate student orientations and reflections.
- Assists students in selecting community placements.
- Contacts Service Learners before service begins; provides all new and updated information about the placement site, nature of service, calendar of service, and application and orientation procedures.
- Maintains accurate service records for Service Learning students.
- Conducts feedback and discussion sessions with Service Learners, as needed.
Site Responsibilities:
- Familiarizes self with site prior to Student Sign-Up by phoning sites, conducting introductory meetings and establishing a personal relationship with site contact person.
- Maintains communication with each assigned placement by making site visit(s) during the semester. The first visit should be with the Service Learners at their orientation.
- Maintains consistent contact with site coordinates via site visits, phone calls, and mailings throughout the semester.
- Gives prompt feedback to Staff Manager/Directors after site visits, reporting successes and problems with the relationship, the service there, students, etc.
Faculty Responsibilities:
- Acts as a liaison to the faculty. Collects paper work, and aids faculty members in record-keeping.
- Conducts in-class orientations to introduce the Service Learning option in participating courses.
- Receives feedback throughout the semester; visits faculty members to complete an evaluation of the program each semester.
Office Duties:
- Maintains regular office hours, including a weekly evening session.
- Attends scheduled all-staff meetings and individual meetings with Staff Manager.
- Reports number of work hours according to the university's payroll schedule.
- Submits all paperwork according to stated schedules.
- Provides feedback about Service Learning to administrative staff.
- Participates on Student Coordinator planning teams, which publish the Service Learning newsletters, plan the staff in-services, staff service trip, group-building activity, and maintains the bulletins boards. Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervised by:
Staff Managers and Program Administrators
For more information about the Service Learning Program at Marquette, please call Courtney Nikolay, Assistant Director at (414) 288-0302.
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