Job Opening at Macalester College

Macalester College in St. Paul MN has an opening for a 

"Community Partnership Coordinator" in the Community Service Office.


For a full job description please go to:

http://www.macalester.edu/hr/jobs/jobcommunitypartnercoord.html

or see attachment to this email.


Background on Macalester College, St. Paul MN:

Macalester College is a private undergraduate liberal arts college, which emphasizes academic excellence in the context of internationalism, diversity, and a commitment to civic engagement. Since it's founding in 1874, Macalester has maintained standards for scholarship equivalent to those of the finest colleges in the country. Faculty and staff work with our 1851 undergraduate students who represent 50 states and 74 countries to prepare them for lives of active global citizenship and leadership.  Graduates such as Walter Mondale (former U.S. Vice President) and Kofi Annan (United Nations Secretary General) inspire our students for civic and social responsibility.  Our urban location in the capital city of St. Paul, Minnesota affords numerous opportunities for community-based learning and dynamic connections with a community that is vital in the arts, politics, education and the environment.


Macalester students are keenly interested in being civically engaged and preparing for a life of civic leadership.  They have intellectual curiosity and the drive to use their knowledge to contribute to community betterment.  The "esprit de corp" of the campus is engagement -- of ideas and action towards a more just and responsible world.  


Background on the Macalester Community Service Office:

The Community Service Office (CSO) was established in 1988.  Currently this is the primary office that serves as a catalyst for civic engagement.  (We anticipate opening a center to promote global citizen leadership in the fall of 2005.)  The Community Service Office works with the community in a spirit of respectful reciprocity and partnership.  We connect the resources of the college with community needs and strengths in order to reinforce the capacity of local communities.  In return, our community partners and our staff work with students, teaching them how to be effective agents of social change.  We believe that service-learning enhances students’ understanding of issues of public concern, as well as their academic and civic development.  The Community Service Office supports academic service, including action research, service-learning, and public scholarship and initiates dialogue about issues of social concern through trainings, lectures and forums.  Macalester is a member of Minnesota Campus Compact and is a charter member of Project Pericles®, which seeks to create a culture of civic engagement on campus.


The CSO employs 4.5 professional staff and 12 student employees.   While 50% of the student body is involved in the community in a given semester and 80% participate before they graduate, the type of involvement takes many forms. We facilitate three major leadership development programs (Leaders in Service, Off-Campus Student Employment and Lives of Commitment).  While learning about leadership they are also learning about the numerous ways to affect change such as policy work, community building, organizing, political work, direct action and volunteering.  Student leaders attend monthly trainings on the variety of ways to make positive change in the community.  The learning is dynamic as they share with their peers about their insights from their community work and learn from facilitators who might be staff, faculty, alums or community partners.  This serves as an outlet to process their experiences, synthesize their academic and co-curricular work, learn skills, form community and contemplate how and where they will make an impact on the world.

Attachment: Macalester job opening.doc
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