Bonner Center Campus & Community Partnerships Coordinator

Job Summary

Oberlin College and Conservatory invites applications for the Programs Coordinator position, within the Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Research. This is a full-time 12-month administrative and professional position reporting to the Director of the Bonner Center, under the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Positioned within the College of Arts & Sciences, the Bonner Center brings together students, staff, faculty, and community partners to promote student learning, advance scholarship, and respond to community-identified goals and needs. Equity and access are fundamental to the Bonner Center's approach. The Center collaborates primarily in the City of Oberlin and throughout Lorain County where nonprofit and public sector organizations and residents work on a broad range of issue areas including education, food security, the arts, sustainability, historic preservation, immigration, and economic development.

In addition, the Center fosters connections with national and international nonprofit organizations and NGOs, and supports the institution's efforts to expand relationships in Cleveland while maintaining more proximal, long-standing local partnerships.

The work of the Bonner Center intersects with key institutional priorities first outlined in our 2016 Strategic Plan and now at the heart of our ambitious One Oberlin plan. Both the Strategic Plan and One Oberlin identify experiential and connected learning as central to a transformative Oberlin education. The Bonner Center works closely with academic departments and Integrative Concentrations to cultivate meaningful community engagement opportunities for students, faculty, and staff, and is a core partner in the Center for Engaged Liberal Arts, encompassing Winter Term, Study Away, Undergraduate Research, Fellowships, and strategic alignment with the Career Development Center and Bonner Center, to integrate curricular and co-curricular experiential learning programs.

Responsibilities

The Bonner Center Campus & Community Partnerships Coordinator will support the student cohorts within the Center and will also lead several programs and initiatives within the Bonner Center, including the following duties / essential functions:

Community Based Work Study Program

1. Coordinate and manage the budget request cycle for all participating community partners

2. Support recruitment process of student employees, including the maintenance of serve.oberlin and community partner participation in the annual connections fair

3. Facilitate onboarding and orientation sessions for newly hired student employee

4. Facilitate workshops for CBWSP student workers on topics related to Ethical Community Engagement

5. Monitor and oversee work-study allocations, ensuring no partners employing students or students, exceed their awarded allotment of funds

6. Using College software (currently Time Clock Plus) manage the approval process of CBWSP student hours for bi-weekly payroll

Bonner Center Programs

1. Lead efforts to discern community-expressed needs through outreach and ongoing relationship-building with existing and potential campus & community partners

2. Lead efforts to build and maintain system for reviewing campus & community partnerships, including but not limited to developing and maintaining serve.oberlin.edu (Get Connected) and promoting partnership opportunities for students, staff, faculty and community

3. Handle intake process for community partners and be a first point of contact for new and existing campus and community partners

4. Support the operations of the Bonner Center for Community-Based Learning and Research as needed

5. Support "Bonner for All" mission through creation and/or facilitation of programs, projects, and service opportunities that engage students, staff, faculty, and community members across campus and Oberlin, Lorain County, and Northeast Ohio communities

6. Represent the Bonner Center at community programs and events, which may require maintaining a flexible schedule that includes some evenings and weekends

7. Support and contribute to reflection and evaluation opportunities for students and…