City Year Cleveland Project Manager Opening

City Year Cleveland, a member of the Americorps Service Network that unites 
17-24 year olds for a year of extensive service, is seeking candidates for 
the Project Manager position.   Project managers are full-time professional 
staff members.  Compensation is competitive.  A description of the position 
is attached as well as pasted at the end of this email.  For more 
information about the position contact Chris Larson (clarson@cityyear.org) 
or Sonya Payne (spayne@cityyear.org) at 216.574.2677.

Deadline to apply is July 24.

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to:

Chris Larson
Fax (preferred): 216.574.2680

Or by mail:
Chris Larson
City Year Cleveland
1007 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115

For more information on City Year visit www.cityyear.org/cleveland


City Year Cleveland
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Project Manager

Organization’s Mission and Goals
City Year is a national youth service corps which engages young adults, ages 
17 to 24, from diverse racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds for a 
demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and 
civic engagement. City Year's mission is to strengthen democracy through 
national service. We put idealism to work by tapping the civic power of 
young people for an annual campaign of idealism.  The goals of the annual 
campaign of idealism are to generate transformative community service, break 
down social barriers, inspire citizens to civic action, develop new leaders 
for the common good, and improve and promote the concept of voluntary 
national service.

City Year was founded in 1988 in Boston and has grown to 13 cities 
throughout the nation.  City Year is part of AmeriCorps, the national 
service program created in 1992.

The main focus and priority of City Year’s service is children and literacy. 
  City Year corps members primarily serve in schools and through 
after-school programs providing tutoring, mentoring, and leading children 
into service.


Position Description

Responsible for the overall management of the day-to-day team based 
operations and the achievement of City Year’s service mission to create “the 
corps’ corps” with the children and youth in our communities.  They manage 
high impact community service projects and inclusive teams of 15 cms in the 
high impact community service projects.

Duties

1.      50% Lead and manage teams of CMs
Project Managers (PMs) supervise and mentor corps members  PMs will develop 
cms by coaching and challenging in the areas of, project planning, managing 
their peers, building relationships and developing marketable skills.  They 
conduct regular performance reviews, hold one on ones, and develop 
team-based activities and structured trainings to build skills for cms and 
their team.  They uphold high standards for the cms .  Twice yearly they 
evaluate the CMs, and are responsible for managing retention strategies. 
They oversee the corps member’s GED educational experience.

2.      30% Project planning of high impact service
PMs are the staff point person on all of the service projects.  They ensure 
that the vision of the service partner, team sponsor, community and City 
Year are being met, using the RFP, Service Partner Agreement and AmeriCorps 
Goals as a tool and guide.  Facilitate regular meetings with service 
partners, community members and CY cm & staff.  Work with Service Director 
to strategize solutions and structure regular feedback and evaluation.  Work 
with the CY Service Director to ensure that service partner match guidelines 
are being met. They oversee the corps members GED educational experience.

3.      10% Leading & messaging to the corps in the CY program
PMs are responsible for communicating the vision, mission and culture of the 
City Year organization and delivering organizational messages to their cms  
Responsible for preparing the cms in the following areas: powerful 
standards, civic engagement, inspirational standards, inclusively and social 
entrepreneurship.  Oversees cms meeting their requirements: RASL, CYZYGY, 
Graduation, AmeriCorps.

4.      10% Civic engagement/community organizing
PMs are responsible for building relationships with community-based 
organizations in their flagship communities.  They are members of advisory 
boards, join community meetings and support all community-based events.  The 
collaboration between City Year and Community Based Organizations provide 
service support for both CY and the communities.  Some projects include SAT, 
MLK, Playground builds, CAMPS, Recruitment Blitzes, etc.

Experience/Skill Requirements

Knowledge and Education
·       Previous community service work experience desirable
·       Working and supervising young adults

Experience
·       Working in non-profit, social service or educational settings
·       Exhibit strong desire to work with a diverse group of individuals
·       Ability to work as both a team member and independent leader
·       Leadership and Management Experience
·       Proven organizational and project management abilities
·       City Year experience a plus

Skills and Ability (Core Competencies)
·       Leadership skills
·       Supervising skills
·       Coaching, Mentoring, Training skills
·       Outstanding planning skills – capacity to transform a vision into a 
plan 
and then oversee its implementation
·       Written & Oral skills
·       Organizing skills
·       Fundraising skills
·       Community Organizing

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Greetings to all the Listserv:

This has taken a few days to submit to the Listserv since I am in the US now, and can't send it from my own computer and ISP.  As a consequence, it is a bit out of sync with the discussion it applies to, but I think it's still worth sending...

 

I have been reading the discussion between Cynie Parsons, Jini and Beth(?), and Andy Furco with great interest.  Clearly we need to make a distinction between volunteering and service-learning, but it seems we also need to be clear about what service-learning is.  I find a lot of problems with people thinking that any time there is both service and learning going on, then we have service-learning.  A good case in point is the scenario presented to the list-serv:

     “The Junior Leagues in many cities have a chorus made up of dedicated Junior League singers who go from school to school giving concerts.  Superb!   But what about turning this into service-learning?  How about before each presentation a group of the children at the involved school are invited to practice with the adults, and be part of the performance?  Let the music teacher choose those students who need help learning to read new music, and let the Junior League volunteers add to the teaching staff in ways not possible for the lone (too often) music teacher.”

Clearly we have both service and learning going on here – but do we have service-learning?  I would say – no, unless the fact that the students participate in the performance at their own school can be construed to be a “service”.  That would mean that every school band, orchestra, chorus, and dance performance is not simply a culmination program demonstrating their achievement, but is a “service” to their school – something that would seriously weaken the concept of service, in my view. In this scenario I would contend that the Junior Leaguers are doing the service, and the students are doing the learning.  It’s a great program, and I think it expands the value of the Junior League choral performance by adding a learning experience for the students.  But in my

understanding, service learning gets the students to do a real service that is in some substantive way related to their curriculum – AND provides pre- and post-service opportunities for reflection.  If the Junior League chorus is a secondary or college music class – then the scenario above can be a service-learning project for the Junior League college class.  On the other hand, if the students from the school where the Junior League chorus performs learn from the Junior Leaguers and then they, in turn, perform (as a service) to an elderly home or whatever (and reflect on the project), then they are engaging in service-learning. In my view, we need to be very clear about how service and learning need to be integrated to achieve real service- learning.

 

Regards to all,

Patricia

 

Dr. Patricia Nabti (Ph.D.)

President and Director

Association for Volunteer Services

Beirut, Lebanon

pnabti@avs.org.lb

P.O.Box 136104, Beirut, Lebanon 2039 4232

961-1-797247 or 963-3-757098

Website: www.avs.org.lb

 

 

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