Community and Field Liaison

University of British Columbia • Kelowna, BC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Community and Field Liaison is an integral part of the Field Education Office, in the School of Social Work. This position will be involved in all aspects of recruitment and marketing of the program to prospective students and local (Okanagan Valley) community agencies that provide field education opportunities. Additionally, this role is a liaison between current students, their field education placements, and the School of Social Work. As Field Liaison, this role provides grade recommendation (pass/fail) through the Field Education Coordinator to the Director, School of Social Work as part of their interaction with each student and agency during a placement. This role ensures that agency policies and preferences are taken into consideration when placing and managing students for their field education placement.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of one to two years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Nice To Haves

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Master’s degree in Social Work preferred.
• Minimum of one year experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of two years of related agency experience preferably in the British Columbia Interior Region preferred
• Ability to effectively use Microsoft Office suite at an intermediate level.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a liaison between students and agencies to ensure participant understanding regarding processes, requirements and expectations.
• Performing site visitations, ensuring completion of check-in meetings and documenting relevant findings to assist in the evaluation of students in field education placements.
• Assisting the Field Education Coordinator on triaging and resolving concerns or challenges related to agency relations or obtaining of placements.
• Attending integrative seminars, with the goal of linking agency policy and experiences to the seminar course, contributing to discussion and activities. Makes recommendations to the Field Education Coordinator for applying changes.
• Synthesizing the information from the integrated seminars and field visits, and bringing it to the School Field Education Committee for planning of next steps.
• Recruiting students for the MSW program by developing and delivering recruitment presentations, both online as webcasts and in-person to prospective students.
• Maintaining a communication pathway from community to students in regards to events, jobs and other resources by way of social media platforms and student communiques.
• Liaising with the student union and coordinating and providing guidance on School of Social Work student meetings and student led initiatives.
• Ensuring student manuals, forms, and other communications materials are up to date by consulting with relevant contributors and ensuring appropriate UBC branding is applied
• Ensuring exit surveys are distributed and analyzed to ensure maximum impact on informing administrative decisions. Providing summaries and identify trends as needed
• Gathering content, preparing and distributing School newsletter. Building and maintaining newsletter contact database.
• Coordinating presentations by the School to community members for professional development credits; coordinating special presentations for students.
• Participating in School of Social Work committees related to yearly events, such as Welcome Orientation, Graduation, Awards Ceremonies, etc.
• Performing other related duties as required.
• Provide additional field education supervision to students, in cases where students do not have access to a Field Educator with a M.S.W. providing supervision at the agency. This includes providing the guidance and support students require to develop their graduate clinical social work skills and application of curriculum, which a student may not be receiving from their direct supervisor at their placement.
• May manage student staff/staff and be responsible for hiring, discipline, evaluation and termination.

Benefits

• The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree