Office/Department: Community Engagement & Volunteer Center
Number of Positions Available: 1
Director: Kim Davidson

Mission Statement: We cultivate mutually beneficial partnerships between students, faculty, and community organizations that address community-identified priorities and contribute to student learning.

Functional areas included in this office/department: Supporting student organization and/or individual community engagement, service-learning courses, co-curricular programs (Alternative Break Program, Every Campus a Refuge, Federal Work Study [community immersed] & Madison Community Scholars, episodic programs), and Faculty support.

Students who participate in this experience will:

1. Advising/building/developing student staff
2. Planning and implementing staff training
3. Understanding and practice of service-learning theory
4. Designing and implementing refection and educational programs to connect academic and life experiences to service experiences and social issues
5. Assisting with departmental programs (e.g. Pre-Orientation Programming, Service Fairs, Federal Work Study & Madison Community Scholars workshops, Alternative Break Leadership Team workshops, etc)
6. Participating in departmental committees and projects
7. Attending departmental and divisional meetings
8. Facilitating opportunities for students to translate theory to practice
9. Managing change
10. Practicing organizational communication
11. Using technology such as web-based applications, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Teams, Trello, etc

Be exposed to the purposeful application of the following student development, career development, counseling and/or organizational theories:

• Psychosocial Developmental Theories: (Chickering, Erikson)
• Cognitive Developmental Theories: (Perry, Kolhberg, Belenky, Gilligan)
• Typology: (Jung, Myers-Briggs)
• Counseling Theories: (Reality Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy)
• Career Development Theories: (Super, Holland)
• Identity Development Theories: (Racial, White, Minority, Sexual, Gender, Ability, Religious, Social Class, Multiple)

Participate in assessment and/or evaluation projects:

• Program/event surveying/evaluation
• Periodic research projects
• Supporting the development of departmental wide student learning objectives 

Be evaluated and provided on-going feedback:

• Weekly one on one consultation meetings with direct supervisor
• Written performance evaluation each December and April

Manage position-specific expectations:

• Oversee student organization/individual student service requests and education
• Serve as CEVC ambassador to increase student organization involvement (including, but not limited to Fraternity & Sorority Life, Student Government Association, Student Athletes, and Centennial & Valley Scholars Programs)
• Facilitate conversations and/or develop and facilitating presentations for student leaders/organizations to utilize the PARE model when implementing community engagement
• Coordinate episodic student organization prioritized days of service (i.e. FSL New Member Day of Service with Harrisonburg International Festival, MLK Day On/Student Leadership Transition with the Arc of Harrisonburg Rockingham+, and The Big Event/Greek Week Day of Service with Blacks Run Clean Up+, etc.)
• Assist with semesterly Kick Off events (i.e. Federal Work Study/Madison Community Scholars Kick Off, Volunteer Fair [service-learning course and Centennial Scholars Program liaison], Weeks of Welcome programming, etc)
• Connect students, student organizations, and community partners
• Develop, facilitate, and/or coordinate individual and/or group reflection for co-curricular programs
• Assist with semesterly service-learning course preparation and launch
• Assist with collecting assessment and/or evaluation data and writing reports/sharing associated data and stories
• Assist with office programs by:
• Supporting the planning, preparation, and implementation of student staff hiring and training
• Supporting the planning, preparing, and implementing of Dukes Making a Difference (DMAD), a pre-orientation program
• Supporting episodic or weekly student opportunities in the community
• Participating actively in regularly scheduled professional staff, all staff, and one-on-one supervisory meetings
• Represent CEVC at campus and community programs by:
• Staffing information tables
• Facilitating presentations
• Serving on departmental advisory boards/committees, etc
• Other duties as assigned