Enrollment and Engagement Specialist, JMU Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (JMUPREIS)
About The Position
The JMU Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (JMUPREIS) program at the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services at James Madison University seeks a full-time Enrollment and Engagement Specialist to recruit youth in Virginia’s foster care system for a hybrid sexual and mental health education program. The grant-funded position is contingent upon continued funding. The program serves youth in areas with high teen birth rates and elevated risk factors for teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. It emphasizes abstinence and contraception, healthy relationships, life skills, adolescent development, and parent-child communication. The intervention is intended for foster-care youth ages 16–19 and pregnant and parenting foster-care youth under age 21, and will be evaluated using a randomized controlled trial design. The role works with sites across Virginia, including Virginia Department of Social Services sites and independent foster care agencies, to develop and support youth recruitment. It also supports JMU and the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services’ community outreach mission and experiential learning opportunities for JMU students. Overnight travel is required on a rotating basis to visit four sites per month. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience coordinating services for a positive youth development program.
- Significant professional experience working with youth.
- Ability to relate to teens, parents, and families of varying abilities and backgrounds, as well as agency professionals, school staff, and community members.
- Strong oratory, organizational, administrative, and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of adolescent development and best practices in teen pregnancy prevention.
- Experience with youth development and outreach.
- General computer skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.
Nice To Haves
- Significant professional experience working with youth in the foster care system.
- Experience planning effective public health education programs.
- Ability to speak Spanish.
Responsibilities
- Recruit youth to participate in the JMUPREIS program at 14 sites across Virginia.
- Establish and cultivate connections with site staff at Virginia Department of Social Services sites and independent foster care agencies.
- Track each site’s policies and procedures related to youth recruitment and eligibility for services.
- Establish a student recruitment plan for each site.
- Track and assist with individual recruitment plans for each site.
- Assist sites with troubleshooting participant recruitment.
- Travel overnight on a rotating basis to four sites per month to follow up face-to-face with site contacts and youth.
- Assist the JMUPREIS Program Coordinator with other recruitment-related tasks.
- Support JMU’s and IIHHS’ mission and vision by providing community outreach programs and quality experiential learning opportunities for JMU students.
Benefits
- Paid vacation leave
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Paid community service leave
- 19 paid holidays annually
- Health insurance options
- Retirement benefits through the Virginia Retirement System
- Employee wellness and work-life integration resources through the Balanced Dukes program
- Tuition waiver for undergraduate and graduate courses taken at JMU
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
