Program Assistant For Alt. Break Experience

Job Purpose/Description

• The Program Assistant for Alternative Break Experiences will plan and implement service-learning trips including: service site coordination, co-leader recruitment and training, participant recruitment, support and promotion of the service learning trips. In addition, this role facilitates Justice Cafe events to provide space for ongoing reflection and discussion.

Job Duties

• In collaboration with a Campus Minister, communicate with ABE service learning sites and serve as an informed resource person for all ABE trips.

• In collaboration with a Campus Minister, recruit, interview, select and train co-leaders for service-learning trips.

• Create materials, advertise, and organize participant recruitment for service-learning trips.

• Represent the ABE program in a positive way to the community.

• Project the budget for the ABE trips and coordinate ABE program scholarship process.

• Attend to ongoing needs & issues of trips as they arise, before or after trips.

• Receive and organize paperwork for trips, and follow-up as needed.

• Plan and facilitate Justice Cafe events to provide space for ongoing reflection and discussion.

• Work cooperatively with the Campus Minister.

• Provide support for Campus Ministry as needed including event advertising and support, helping to coordinate Campus Ministry fundraisers, helping to maintain Campus Ministry blog and website, and assisting professional staff with projects as needed.

• Be dynamically involved in leadership and worldview formation:

• If religious, attend a weekly worship service.

• If non-religious, regularly attend to the development of your personal worldview

• Active participation in Campus Ministry student leader trainings and meetings

• Meet regularly with a member of Campus Ministry staff for spiritual development, articulation of progress towards meeting goals, and dialogue about areas of concern.

• Be willing to collaborate with other student leaders of Campus Ministry.

• Represent Campus Ministry and all its programming in a positive way to students, parents, staff and faculty, sisters and community members.

Required Qualifications

• Must be a current CSS student

• Have an interest and passion for the work of service and social justice and the ABE Core Values

• Desire to grow in their own spirituality

• Have good oral and written communication skills

• Be able to effectively facilitate one on one, small and large group activities

• Be a self-motivated and reliable leader

• Be supportive of the ecumencial and interfaith nature of campus ministry

Preferred Qualifications

• Have prior participation in ABE programming, strongly preferred

Special Instructions to Applicants

• Federal work study eligibility is NOT required

• Approximately 5 hours per week; the majority of work time will be scheduled during regular business hours between Monday and Thursday but will also include evening commitments. hours will vary depending on program needs

• Resume submission required