Week of November 9, 2009
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Service Opportunities // Conference Opportunities // Service Jobs and Internships
Service Opportunities:
1. First Year Service Day Program: contact cale_bm@wvwc.edu for more information
2. Mentors needed at Rock Cave Elementary School
3. Tutors for Literacy Volunteers
4. Volunteers needed in elementary school libraries
5. Tutors needed in all subjects at Stockert Youth Center: contact sarah.wilkinson11@gmail.com for more information
Conference Opportunities:
6. 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference -- March 24-27, 2010 -- San Jose, CA
Service Jobs and Internships:
7. Job:Program Specialist for Save the Children
8. Resource: Idealist.org Website
9. Resource: 'Jobs for Change' Website
10. Internship: United Mountain Defense
11. Internship: Senior Center Association
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Literacy Volunteers Needs Tutors
The Literacy Volunteers of Upshur County are in need of volunteers to help tutor adult students. For more information, please contact the CCE at wvwcservice@wvwc.edu.
CONFERENCE OPPORTUNITIES
21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference
March 24-27, 2010 -- San Jose, CA
This conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in the service-learning movement, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the US and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, featured forums, and service-learning projects, the conference engages participants in local, national and global issues. It provides networking opportunities with service-learning leaders through more than 150 experiential workshops, receptions and informal meetings. For more information, visit http://www.nylc.org/conference, call (800) 366-6952, or email nslc@nylc.org.
SERVICE JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
Program Specialist for Save the Children
Save the Children’s work in the United States has focused on our most underserved rural communities, providing early childhood, literacy, and nutrition and physical activity programs for children in 14 states as well working with high risk states on disaster risk reduction and preparedness plans. Acting as grantor, content provider and an ongoing source of technical support, Save the Children focuses on building strategic government and community partnerships to yield scalable, replicable, accountable model sites.
Our goal is to build the capacity of local schools and community-based organizations in rural America to provide high quality early childhood development services for children from birth to five, as well as literacy and nutrition and physical activity programs for children from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Our model program approach benefits children by providing highly trained staff, new age-appropriate books, safe equipment, healthy snacks, structured physical activity, software and technology resources and structured program content to help children become stronger readers and adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors. Through our programs, Save the Children is providing the youngest children with a strong foundation for learning and school-aged children with the skills they need to succeed academically and live healthy, active and productive lives.
The Program Specialist is the on-the-ground Save the Children (SC) staff member providing technical and management assistance to partners to ensure the effective coordination, implementation and monitoring of literacy and nutrition and physical activity (CHANGE) programs. Under the supervision of the Associate Director of Partnership Management, and working as a team member within a regional office, the Program Specialist oversees the implementation of the integrated programming at approximately 5 to 7 partner sites. (The number of sites will vary by location and the levels of guidance and support required to partners will vary depending on the specific needs of the partner.) Specific responsibilities include coordinating with the Associate Director of Partnership Management to identify new partner sites and conduct site assessments; guiding new partners through the start-up process of the two programs; providing training and technical assistance to partners to ensure high-qu ality programs; monitoring partner progress and performance to ensure that they are achieving program objectives; consulting with the Associate Director of Partnership Management and Regional Support Team (RST) members such as the Nutrition and Physical Activity (NuPA) Specialists and Education Specialists, as needed, to resolve complex issues; and, ensuring compliance with subgrant terms and conditions.
For further information or to apply online, please visit our website: http://www.savethechildren.org To apply click on “Careers” and search under US Programs for Program Specialists.
Resource: Idealist.org Website
Idealist.org is a non-profit-focused website that includes opportunities for jobs, graduate fairs, volunteer opportunities, events and internships, as well as resources, organizations and speakers that focus on the topic of your choosing. To start your job search in the nn-profit field, go to
http://www.idealist.org
.
Resource:'Jobs for Change' Website
Jobs for Change seeks to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors. For more information, go to
http://jobs.change.org/
.
Internship:United Mountain Defense
UMD has been working hard on the Tennessee Valley Association's coal ash disaster and could use help this summer continuing the work to abolish mountain-top removal coal mining. If you are interested in these issues, please check out the following links:
UMDInternship List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddtgk4hx_8hnc3hmcv&hl=en
UMD Volunteer App: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddtgk4hx_6cg5tvmdx&hl=en
UMD Website: www.unitedmountaindefense.org
UMD Blog: http://dirtycoaltva.blogspot.com
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