Assistant Director for McKeen Center for the Common Good
About The Position
The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to discover the ways in which their talents, passions, and academic pursuits can be cultivated for the benefit of society through public engagement. The Assistant Director assists a diverse population of students in connecting with communities locally, nationally, and internationally through volunteer programs designed to impact communities while providing students with the educational background necessary to inform their service. This individual oversees and provides leadership training for the Alternative Breaks program, as well as Common Good Project Teams and the Community Immersion Orientation program. The Alternative Breaks program offers a week-long, intensive experience for students to learn about significant social and environmental issues through education, engagement, and action over spring break. The Assistant Director oversees all aspects of the program, including trip, leader, and participant selection, leader training, all trip logistics, and post-trip reflection. Community Immersion Orientation Trip programming is offered annually in August to introduce incoming first-year students to Maine’s communities, histories, and challenges. The Assistant Director is tasked with communicating with community partners, training trip leaders, and coordinating trip logistics for 15 student-led groups, as well as supervising a full-time student employee over the summer to prepare for this program. The Assistant Director will also bring vision and a strategic mindset to one of our newest programs, Common Good Project Teams, which coordinates groups of students for one-time volunteer projects with local community partners. In addition, the assistant director will be a key thought partner in the ways that antiracism and social justice intersect with community engagement and the common good. The assistant director will lead conversations around these topics and will be expected to incorporate issues and topics of social justice and anti-oppression into all the programs and work they do with students and the Center. McKeen Center programming provides students with the knowledge and skills to examine, question, and address the challenges facing communities locally and throughout the world. Our commitment to the common good includes exploration of power, privilege, and social justice and the assistant director must demonstrate the ability to incorporate discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the programming they oversee. First preference will be given to applications received by 5pm on Monday, March 28th.
Responsibilities
- Oversees and provides leadership training for the Alternative Breaks program
- Oversees and provides leadership training for Common Good Project Teams
- Oversees and provides leadership training for the Community Immersion Orientation program
- Oversees all aspects of the Alternative Breaks program, including trip, leader, and participant selection, leader training, all trip logistics, and post-trip reflection.
- Communicating with community partners for Community Immersion Orientation Trip
- Training trip leaders for Community Immersion Orientation Trip
- Coordinating trip logistics for 15 student-led groups for Community Immersion Orientation Trip
- Supervising a full-time student employee over the summer to prepare for Community Immersion Orientation Trip
- Bring vision and a strategic mindset to Common Good Project Teams
- Lead conversations around antiracism and social justice
- Incorporate issues and topics of social justice and anti-oppression into all the programs and work they do with students and the Center.
- Incorporate discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the programming they oversee.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
