CELS Academic and Community Advisor

Position Title

CELS Academic and Community Advisor

Employee Type

Regular

Office/Department

Ctr Com Service and Justice

Work Environment

Loyola University Maryland Main Campus

Job Type

Full time

Benefits at Loyola

https://www.loyola.edu/department/hr/benefits/

Compensation Range

$51,277.00 - $64,096.00

Anticipated Start Date

08/19/2024

If Temporary or Visiting, Estimated End Date

Position Duties

Develops, implements, promotes, and provides logistical and administrative support for academic community engagement partnerships between Loyola faculty, academic departments, academic student groups, Academic Affairs, or other academic entities on the one hand, and community-based organizations or groups on the other. Supports place-based community engagement focused in Loyola's York Road/Govans neighborhoods through partnerships including program-based and project-based service-learning or course-based service components, as well as academic entities’ co-curricular service, community experiences, community speakers, research, and significant community initiatives, while providing opportunities for students to encounter God, human community and our common home in the spirit of Integral Ecology.

Implement, Support, and Maintain Academic Community Engagement programs, including service-learning, other course-based partnerships, or community-engaged scholarship, whether program-based, project-based, advocacy, or research (50%):

a. Consult with Loyola faculty, academic departments, academic student groups, Academic Affairs, or other academic entities.

b. Provide logistical support for service-learning courses and other academic-community engagement programs and projects 

f. Serve as an institutional link to various community organizations; actively maintain relationships, and learn from community partners how their needs change over time.

g. Serve as an ex oficio member on the Committee on Engaged Scholarship, charged with selecting the Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, Kolvenbach Research Grant awardees, and selecting min-grants recipients.  

h. Support faculty development for community engagement, including opportunities including the Faculty Fellows Seminar, with a focus on faculty development related to asset-based partnership with community-based organizations.

i. Share assessment tools with faculty and community partners that help faculty become accountable to community partner impact as well as student learning.

j. Administer the Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship mini-grants program, including keeping records of applications, approvals, budgets, and final grant reports

Develop new partnerships, pilot programs, and models for academic community engagement (25%):

a. Maintain updated knowledge of the range of existing partnerships at CCSJ and the University.

b. Maintain knowledge of the field of community engagement, especially where academics is concerned, in higher education.

c. Consult with academic constituents about their ideas for community engagement initiatives.  Help develop their partnership skills and capacity.

d. Engage in networking and vetting conversations with community partners or potential partners interested in academic partnerships, supporting partners with resources to developing their capacity to work with Loyola academic entities.

e. Connect academic constituents with existing or new partnership opportunities and the resources of CCSJ.

f. Connect community partners to the academic and other resources of Loyola, including scholarly knowledge, assessment and research, writing, arts, and media.

g. Consult, advise, and support logistics of new partnerships and engagement projects.

h. Facilitate academic partner- community partner dialogues on values, shared goals, expectations, logistics, and assessment. 

i. Work with CCSJ staff to identify and secure funding to assist mutually beneficial academic-community partnerships; work through collective impact strategies with multiple community partners to write and oversee development of grants and contracts.

j. Provide administrative backbone as needed for significant initiatives in academic community engagement.

k. Communicate plans, efforts, and work to Program Director, Center Director, Faculty Director and Associate Directors, to internal and external constituents to engage interest and resources, including funds, volunteers and campus awareness of initiatives.

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