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 is hiring a full-time Enrollment and Engagement Specialist. The role recruits youth in Virginia’s foster care system to participate in a hybrid sexual and mental health education program. The position is grant-funded and contingent upon continued funding. JMUPREIS is a collaborative initiative serving vulnerable high-school-aged youth, including youth in Virginia’s foster care system ages 16–19 and pregnant and parenting youth in the foster care system under age 21. The program addresses sexual health and adulthood preparation topics, including healthy relationships, healthy life skills, adolescent development, and parent-child communication. It emphasizes both abstinence and contraception and is being implemented and rigorously evaluated using a randomized controlled trial design. SexEdVA, part of the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services, works to advance adolescent sexual health in Virginia through training and technical assistance, curriculum development, research, advocacy, and community programming. The Institute is housed within JMU’s College of Health and Behavioral Studies.
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 and 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 for JMUPREIS at 14 sites across Virginia.
- Establish and cultivate connections with staff at Virginia Department of Social Services sites and independent foster care agencies.
- Track site policies and procedures related to youth recruitment and eligibility for services.
- Establish a recruitment plan for each site.
- Track and assist with each site’s individual recruitment plan.
- Help sites troubleshoot participant recruitment.
- Travel overnight on a rotating basis to four sites per month to meet 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, sick leave, parental leave, and community service leave.
- 19 paid holidays annually.
- Health insurance options.
- Retirement benefits through the Virginia Retirement System.
- Balanced Dukes employee wellness and work-life integration resources, events, and support.
- Tuition waiver for undergraduate and graduate courses taken at JMU.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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