Senior Civic Leader
Position Title: Senior Civic Leader
Semester/Year: 2024-2025
Total Positions Available: 1
Supervisor: Katie Flowers
Pay rate: $15/hr
Hours per Week: 2-4
Start Date: August 26, 2024
End Date: May 5, 2025
Position Description:
- Holding meetings with the CCESL Civic Leaders for the purpose of:
- Sharing ideas about recruitment/retention/assessment
- Seeking advice/having open discussions with other Civic Leaders about their respective programs
- making connections between students and programs and community
- Weekly or bi-weekly check-ins with a member of the CCESL professional staff for the purpose of:
- Developing goals and service opportunity ideas for the upcoming weeks
- Touching base on the current state of service projects/any concerns of other Civic Leaders
- Support, Co-host, promote CCESL Sponsored Events Throughout the Year
- Manage Civic Leader Calendar with Director (HWS Engage) https://hws.campuslabs.com/engage/
- Providing updates on various service initiates on social media (Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
- Create a set of personal goals to work toward throughout the year
Qualifications:
- The Senior Civic Leader will be a full-time student at Hobart and William Smith Colleges who has had at least two experiences in a community engagement opportunity, including (but not limited to) a service-learning course, Service POAP trip, Summer of Service internship, at least two semesters with HWS Tutor Corps, participation in an Alternative Spring Break trip, or residency in a civic engagement theme house, etc.
- Candidates will need to be excellent at managing their time and be prompt for every meeting.
- Candidates must be dependable, as this job involves working with community partners.
- Candidates must be patient, helpful, and sensitive to the challenges the community faces and help to find creative solutions to the struggles or problems.
- Candidates must be able to keep a positive attitude, and are encouraged to demonstrate leadership and initiative.
- Candidates must demonstrative effective communication skills, both verbal and written
- Bilingual HWS students are encouraged to apply
Application Instructions: Apply through Engage
Coordinated by the Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning, serve@hws.edu, Trinity 203, 315-781-3825, https://www.hws.edu/centers/service