Account/Position No.:  50740/584770                                  Level 9

Position Title:  Assistant Director for Service Learning

Department:  Community Engagement, Learning and Leadership

Expectations for All Employees

East Tennessee State University pursues its mission based upon core values. An employee's job performance must support and exhibit the university's core values:

PEOPLE come first, are treated with dignity and respect, and are encouraged to achieve their full potential;
RELATIONSHIPS are built on honesty, integrity and trust;
DIVERSITY of people and thought is respected;
EXCELLENCE is achieved through teamwork, leadership, creativity, and a strong work ethic;
EFFICIENCY is achieved through wise use of human and financial resources; and
COMMITMENT to intellectual achievement is embraced.

Responsible to the Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement, Learning and Leadership for developing service-learning programs and managing service grants; overseeing student placements for introduction and advanced service-learning courses and departmental courses with a service-learning component; consulting with deans and faculty regarding course design to meet service-learning standards; counseling students in the service-learning process; promoting the program through speaking engagements and publications (agency manual, brochures, parent information sheet, flyers, web page information, display board, etc.); determining guidelines and requirements for service-learning courses; overseeing assessment of the program each semester; maintaining and monitoring student records; generating related reports; training and educating community agencies, students, faculty and AmeriCorps members; supervising AmeriCorps members and the Tennessee College Corps/ AmeriCorps Education Awards Program; maintaining communication between other Tennessee consortium universities and colleges; developing agency/community partnerships for the service-learning program in a 11-county region of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia; maintaining a service-learning resource library; making presentations to civic and community organizations as well as campus organizations; seeking private, federal or grant funding to augment the service-learning program; assisting with the development of reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities who are in service-learning placements; and performing other related duties as assigned. 

Essential Functions 

-Consults with faculty to establish service-learning as part of their teaching strategy.

-Develops effective partnerships with existing and potential service sites.

-Teaches service-learning classes to familiarize students with service needs in the region and with service-learning guidelines.

-Interviews and assists students to identify appropriate service options congruent with student's major, course and interests.

-Monitors progress of service-learning students.

-Performs site supervision of students in community.

-Serves as liaison to community to connect needs with service initiatives.

-Conducts on-site visits with students during the semester.

-Selects guest speakers from local agencies for class presentations.

-Speaks to a variety of groups, agencies and educational institutions on service-learning.

-Determines policies and procedures affecting service-learning classes and programs.

-Collaborates with other Service-Learning Consortium institutions in Tennessee.

-Provides training to other institutions.

-Presents information on K-12 service-learning for our school partners.

-Updates and creates handbooks, applications, job descriptions, web information, brochures, parent information, and evaluations.

-Generates program reports, grant applications, budgeting issues, compiles data.

-Serves on the university service-learning task force.

-Assesses program for university strategic plan and provides statistical information for performance funding and evaluation reports for administrative purposes (i.e., accreditation, strategic goals).

-Manages grant initiatives.

-Manages Tennessee College Corps/AmeriCorps Education Awards Program, i.e., processes applications, background checks, provides orientation, serves as liaison between other member campuses across the state, compiles reports for the Corporation for National Service, etc.

-Plans and implements agency training.

-Works in conjunction with other office staff in daily operation of Student Life and Leadership and its programs. 

Secondary Functions 

-Collects information on additional off-campus programs nationwide.

-Maintains updated list of service-learning resources.

-Maintains service-learning library.

-Serves as resource for instructors; collects sample syllabi, speaks to classes, assists with supervision of students.

-Develops articles for service-learning newsletter and homepage.

-Serves as representative on Volunteer Johnson City advisory committee.

-Develops articles for Student Life Lines.

-Assists with office events and activities.

-Seeks private, federal or state grant funding to augment service-learning programs.

-Serves as office liaison to an academic college.

-Serves on university committees.

-Develops reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities who are in service-learning placements.

-Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Knowledge and Abilities 

-Knowledge of service-learning pedagogy.

-Knowledge of community boards, service agencies and volunteer programs.

-Knowledge of computers, internet and related resources.

-Knowledge of financial aid programs.

-Knowledge of university policies and procedures.

-Ability to communicate effectively.

-Ability to recruit and motivate students, faculty and community.

-Ability to identify, develop and implement new service sites and programs.

-Ability to project and communicate service as part of the collegiate experience.

-Ability to relate to diverse constituents.

-Ability to build partnerships with the community. 

Supervision Given and Received 

Performs under general supervision.  Determines own methods of performing assigned work.  

Minimum Qualifications 

Master's degree in education or social sciences required; three to five years of work experience, with one to three in higher education; curriculum development experience; teaching at the college level; experience and understanding of service-learning.