Here are job postings or job fair info, VISTA/Americorps and other opportunities. Please date your posts and remove them if you know they are outdated.

3/25/08
Idealist.org job fair at the U of M, Coffman Union, on March 31, 2008
http://events.umn.edu/event?occurrence=408512;event=120569

3/25/2008
HOMEWORK CENTER LISTING (VISTA)

St. Paul Public Library- Homework Center Coordinator

Two-line description: Support the work of a dynamic public library system by managing a homework center where students of all ages can get access to tutoring help, information, and resources to meet their educational needs.

Program description: The mission of the Saint Paul Public Library is to meet the changing informational and personal needs of our communities by providing experienced staff and a wide variety of materials and resources. The Homework Center project has served more than 70,000 people – most of them students, and many of them English language learners – since its inception in 2002. Homework Centers provide tutors, computers, school supplies, and research materials. Many of the students who are served have no other place to go for educational support and electronic resources. Volunteers are a crucial part of this successful project; in addition to homework help, they offer themselves as mentors and caring listeners. Volunteers return year after year, and many of the students served go on to become volunteers themselves.

Position description: The VISTA will be in charge of all homework center operations. This includes the recruitment, scheduling, and training of volunteers; outreach to schools and educational community places; and daily striving to provide the best service to each student. The VISTA will need to be passionate about the power of information to change people’s lives, committed to the principles of respect that govern the Homework Centers, and interested in actively participating in our diverse urban community. Successful candidates should also be empathic, approachable, patient, creative, self-directed, and familiar with changing technologies.
Please call 651-266-7433 or 651-266-7460 for details.


3/25/2008
FAMILY LITERACY LISTING (VISTA)

St. Paul Library- Family Literacy Coordinator

Two-line description: Build literacy skills, foster a love of books, and serve families in a diverse urban library by managing the Read With Me program, connecting grade school students with one-on-one reading tutoring.

Program description: Our mission is to meet the changing informational and personal needs of our diverse communities by providing experienced staff and a wide variety of materials and resources. Read With Me, a volunteer literacy program, provides free individualized reading help for children in first, second, and third grade. Pairs meet one hour a week at the library to improve reading and writing skills. Many students come from non-English-speaking families. In order to better serve this community, a new program, called Family Literacy Evening, was launched in October 2007, as an initiative to provide educational support for children of ELL learners. This is a bi-weekly program that runs during ELL classes. Volunteers from the University of Minnesota’s America Reads program assist with the two hour sessions. Each evening includes a story time, large group literacy activity, craft, paired reading time, journal exercise, and computer free time.

Position description: The VISTA will be in charge of all facets of Read With Me and building a growing relationship with our Minnesota Literacy Council partner. This includes outreach to schools and educational community places, recruitment, scheduling and training of volunteers, daily staffing and support, events and striving to provide the best service to each student. The VISTA will also attend to the coordination of Family Literacy Evening, in particular student and volunteer recruitment, as well as planning activities and games for the students, and facilitating each evening. The VISTA will need to be passionate about the power of information to change people’s lives, have a high interest in public service, enjoy working with families and have basic computer skills. Successful candidates should be approachable, organized, patient, creative, self-directed and want to work with diverse populations. Must be good at managing time and prioritizing work tasks; ability to speak other languages is desirable.
Please call 651-266-7433 or 651-266-7460 for details.