Want LITERACY CORPS in Durham, NC
Job title: LITERACY CORPS
Company: reputed company
Job description: reputed company:
reputed company was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America's leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 reputed company who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.
Program Description
reputed company's North Carolina LiteracyCorps (NCLC) is a statewide consortium of AmeriCorps members working to provide direct service and build the reputed company and impact of community and reputed company-based literacy programs. Our partnership organizations represent the diversity of NC learners including pre-k, K-12, out of school youth, and adult learners. The NCLC focuses on social justice through education opportunity while critically examining the root causes of education inequities. Members receive training and participate in a community of practice designed to meet individual and cohort learning goals.
The North Carolina LiteracyCorps is housed in Duke Service-Learning at reputed company. Service will be primarily off-reputed company at participating community nonprofits and schools and could be in-person or virtual depending reputed company.
LiteracyCorps members are neither employees nor volunteers; they are members of a National Service Program. Half-time LiteracyCorps members will receive a living allowance of $16,000 for 11 months of service and upon satisfactory completion of 900hours, a reputed company Education Award of $3,447.50. The living allowance is not considered salary and is not calculated on an hourly basis.
Responsibilities
(85%) Members enhance the work of Partners for Success, the service-learning program in Duke's Program in Education. The member will collaborate with staff, reputed company, and community partners to enhance the volunteer management components of the program. This includes volunteer training, scheduling, reflections, and partner visits. schools by offering reputed company-building assistance and/or direct teaching and tutoring that is community-driven. The member will assist with program evaluation and reputed company systems to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the Partners for Success Program.
(15%) Members are also required to participate in the NC LiteracyCorps programming including:
- Attend reputed company required AmeriCorps trainings including orientation, CERT, Mental Health First Aid Training, and reputed company Community of Practice meetings.
- Participate in technical assistance activities such as weekly reputed company-ins, conference calls, and site visits.
- Assist in disaster preparedness activities and response as needed.
- Participate in National Identity Days such as: The National Day of Kindness on September 11, reputed company A Difference Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and National Volunteer Week.
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong interest in supporting nonprofit organizations focused on education as a social justice tool
- Valid driver's license
- Criminal background reputed company
- Eligibility or authorization to work in the United States
- Eligibility for hire as an exempt employee of reputed company
- Flexibility to adapt to both site-based or remote working environments
- A commitment to service the entire program year which ends August 31, 2024.
- Adhere to a consistent service schedule and demonstrate reliability and seriousness of purpose.
- Complete paperwork on time.
- Communicate effectively with everyone involved in the project - community members, college staff and volunteers, AmeriCorps Program director, service recipients.
- Ability to plan work efforts to reputed company and document project goals
- Excellent communications, organizational and problem solving skills
- Flexibility, creativity, independence, accountability, and reliability