Youth Service Engagement Specialist

Overview

Engage Boston HS students in service‑learning, recruit, coordinate activities, track impact.

Key Responsibilities

• salesforce entry
• engagement logs
• strategic partnerships
• student recruitment
• parent outreach
• collaboration

Tasks

-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. -Use best practices as well as innovative strategies to meet monthly goals for number of students engaged and hours served. -Work closely with teachers to engage students in IPARD service learning in the classroom. -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. -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. -Provide outreach to parents/guardians and gain their support for engaging students in service learning. -Use Salesforce platform to enter student engagement in a timely manner. -Write monthly engagement logs and use monitoring reports to innovate and pivot to improve programs and meet goals. -Establish, develop, and maintain strategic partnerships with school advisors and counselors, administrators, faculty, support staff, parents, and local community partners.

Requirements

• initiative
• education knowledge
• spanish
• 2+ years
• teacher
• community

What You Bring

-Willingness to take initiative in co-developing and implementing new service-learning -Functional knowledge of regional school district(s) and educational and nonprofit landscape. -Spanish language is a plus! -2+ years of engaging youth in the classroom or extra-curricular programming -Demonstrated skills as a teacher/facilitator or experience working side-by-side with teachers/facilitators, particularly implementing service-learning projects -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

-Paid personal days (7) -2 paid shutdown weeks (10 days) -$50 cell phone reimbursement -403(b) retirement plan with an employer match -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 sick days (5) -100% insurance premium paid for medical, dental and vision along with subsidized deductibles. -A generous time-off policy of 39 days annually -2 weeks of paid vacation (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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