Student Engagement Specialist, Boston

Overview

Engage Boston high school students in service‑learning and community projects.

Key Responsibilities

• crm entry
• goal tracking
• student recruitment
• partner outreach
• engagement reporting
• department collaboration

Tasks

-Establish, develop, and maintain strategic partnerships with school advisors and counselors, administrators, faculty, support staff, parents, and local community partners. -Use Salesforce platform to enter student engagement in a timely manner. -Use best practices as well as innovative strategies to meet monthly goals for number of students engaged and hours served. -Engage students in meaningful service learning in partnership with community organizations after school and on Saturdays. -Establish relationships with partner organizations to connect students to needed services that are outside of buildOn’s scope. -Support collaboration with other departments, such as Development, Marketing, Global, Finance, and HR to meet organizational goals, such as fund development and elevating student voice, to work as ONE buildOn. -Work closely with teachers to engage students in IPARD service learning in the classroom. -Write monthly engagement logs and use monitoring reports to innovate and pivot to improve programs and meet goals. -Provide outreach to parents/guardians and gain their support for engaging students in service learning. -Recruit students to serve with buildOn in their own communities. Recruitment happens in the hallways between classes, during lunch time, during classroom presentations, and by developing a core group of students to engage their peers. Teachers and counselors refer students to buildOn for various reasons and you welcome them in.

Requirements

• spanish
• 2+ years
• facilitator
• initiative
• data-driven
• kpi

What You Bring

Achievement of KPI Focuses & Data-Driven Decisions buildOn seeks an experienced and committed professional with a demonstrated passion for engaging youth in breaking the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through SERVICE and education! Our Engagement Specialists understand the power of connecting those who might not otherwise have the chance to serve and learn together. -Spanish language is a plus! -2+ years of engaging youth in the classroom or extra-curricular programming -Willingness to take initiative in co-developing and implementing new service-learning -Demonstrated skills as a teacher/facilitator or experience working side-by-side with teachers/facilitators, particularly implementing service-learning projects -Functional knowledge of regional school district(s) and educational and nonprofit landscape. -Knowledge of the systemic issues that inhibit the growth of communities and a strong desire to use service to develop youth

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Benefits

Student Engagement in Service Learning Pay Rate: $22.60 - $24.03 hourly ($47,000 - $50,000annually) Commensurate with Experience Simply put…you will engage amazing Boston high school students in SERVICE. You will do this during class in partnership with teachers and after school & on weekends with community-based organizations. You will use buildOn’s modified IPARD model to engage youth in service learning. This model leads to community impact as well as measurable growth for the students themselves. You will help recruit students for our Immersion program where they will pair up with business professionals to teach them the power of service while gaining new skills and building their networks. You will also inspire students to apply for buildOn’s Trek program where they can travel to a buildOn partner country (Malawi, Nepal, Nicaragua, Guatemala or Senegal) to help build a school. (You can go on Trek too! See benefits below!) Our Boston Service-learning program provides high school schools the tools they need to transform their communities through service. Globally, we partner with people in countries with high rates of poverty and illiteracy to build schools, enroll previously out-of-school children, and support adult learners through our Adult Literacy Program. To date, our U.S. students have contributed more than 2.4 million hours of service to their communities, and we’ve built more than 2,500 schools in eight countries––breaking ground on a new school every 36 hours. -Paid sick days (5) -Paid holidays including Juneteenth (7) -An opportunity to go on Trek to a buildOn partner country where you will work in solidarity with community members to build a school -Paid personal days (7) -403(b) retirement plan with an employer match -2 weeks of paid vacation (10 days) -100% insurance premium paid for medical, dental and vision along with subsidized deductibles. -A generous time-off policy of 39 days annually -$50 cell phone reimbursement -2 paid shutdown weeks (10 days)

About Buildon

-buildOn sparks change through service and school construction. -Students from urban U.S. high schools engage in weekly community service before joining global school-building treks. -The organization builds a school roughly every two days. -Funded through donations and partnerships. -Typical projects include afterschool programs in cities like Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the Bronx, and Oakland. -Their global build work uses local labor, a covenant model, and materials provided by villages. -They’ve built nearly 2,900 schools serving over 370,000 students worldwide.

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