Director of Community Partnerships Position

Dear Colleagues,
Please excuse cross-postings.
I've pasted below, and attached, a description of a  position just created
at Bates College.   The new Center for Community Partnerships at Bates
encompasses an established office of service-learning, an office of
undergraduate community research, and the College's involvement with local
community development efforts.  Bates College is a small, liberal arts
college located in Lewiston, Maine, not far from mountains and ocean.

Please go to the Bates web site if you have questions about the position.
-Liz McCabe Park,
Director, Maine Campus Compact

Director, Center for Community Partnerships

The Center for Community Partnerships at Bates is the primary institutional
structure through which Bates College aligns its resources and initiatives
to meet the service element of its mission.

At Bates, service connects to the values and distinguishing academic
strengths of the College. Service is linked to learning and to scholarship,
reinforcing their interrelatedness. Engagements with the community outside
of the College are understood as partnerships - serving mutual, yet
independent, interests and, thereby, honoring the integrity of each partner.

The Center is organized within the academic area of the College, bringing
together three essential, but related, spheres of activity: (i) outreach
and involvement of the College with community collaborations. Bates is the
host institution and a key collaborator in L/A Excels, a community
development initiative for the Lewiston - Auburn area; (ii)
service-learning and its important educational functions at Bates.
Annually, Bates offers 53,547 hours of service involving faculty from all
divisions and ranks and approximately 150 community agencies; and, (iii)
research (by Faculty members and students) that has application to the
community, to service, and to confirming social value.  Community-based
action research is supported at Bates through Internships, undergraduate
thesis and senior projects and summer grant opportunities.

Primary responsibilities of Director include: 1) Giving direction to, and
articulating the importance of, service and practices as learning contexts;
2) leading expressions of the College's involvement in community
partnerships; 3) serving at the direction of the President and Vice
President for Academic Affairs to assist the Trustee Committee overseeing
College and community collaboration; 4) developing and sustaining new forms
of campus/community engagement and participating in community development
initiatives when the College's interests and those of the community
coincide; 5) serving to cultivate mutual interests, and to mitigate mutual
concerns, that emerge between the College and its immediate neighbors; 6)
developing vital interface between public policy and the College and
informing the College's efforts to present its needs to the community and
to the region; 7) exercising collaborative leadership among staff, faculty,
students and community partners and engaging all collaborators in long
range planning, program development, and evaluation; 8) extending funding
through grants, stewardship and fundraising and managing Center budget
functions, including multiple source budget management; developing and
managing staff needed to implement the Center's goals; 9) developing
advisory board(s) as needed for the Center.

Qualifications are: Graduate degree required (Ph.D. preferred). Extensive
experience required (demonstrated through positions of complex
responsibility in college or university work); 1) Leadership experience
integrating community and institutional objectives; 2) Leadership
experience with diverse community agencies and schools; 3) Experience and
theoretical grounding with course based service-learning and
community-based research; 4) Experience in staff management; 5) Experience
in multiple source budget management and fundraising.

The Director is a senior-level leadership appointment, offering a genuine
opportunity to assist the College in forging a position of identifiable
excellence. The Director will have excellent communication, marketing and
public relations skills.

Competitive salary and benefits are reflective of senior-level
qualifications and experience. Faculty status is possible depending on
candidate's qualifications and College's needs.

The search process will begin April 15, 2002, and continue until the
position is filled. Provisional starting date, July 1, 2002. Letters of
nomination, complete vitae and three letters of recommendation should be
sent to:

Search Committee for the Position of  Director of Center for Community
Partnerships
c/o Bates College Academic Services
7 Lane Hall
Lewiston, ME  04240

www.bates.edu

Bates College values a diverse College community and seeks to assure equal
opportunity through a continuing and effective Affirmative Action program.