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Program Manager, Community-Engaged Teaching & Research
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Position Number: 1893886
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Extension and Outreach

Program Manager, Community-Engaged Teaching & Research

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locationsin Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahantare nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of on-campus and online formatslead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Office of City and Community Engagement (CCE) seeks to support Northeastern University's long-standing mission to serve its community, both globally and locally. It is actively engaged in civic and community efforts, with hopes of further progressing a shared goal of positive community and campus development.

Within this, Community-Engaged Teaching & Research at Northeastern seeks to support the curricular and scholarly work of CCE. Community-Engaged Teaching, or Service-Learning, is a form of experiential learning for students and a teaching tool for faculty that purposefully integrates academics and service or community-engaged projects to meet classroom and community goals throughout the semester. As part of their coursework, students partner with community-based organizations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies as a way to learn the course material. The Program Manager for Community-Engaged Teaching & Research will focus on faculty, partner, and program engagement and development. They will be responsible for maintaining partnerships, growing collaborations, and supporting the implementation of a team vision.

Responsibilities:
Faculty and Partner Engagement

? Communicate with faculty members and campus partner to identify who is planning to teach a service-learning course each semester or is interested in collaborating on community-engaged research.

? Manage a semi-annual Request for Partnership Process for both community-engaged teaching and research partnerships; communicate effectively with faculty members and potential community partnerships throughout the process.

? Maintain effective tracking process for service-learning courses, faculty research and scholarship, and community partnerships.

? Promote ethical community-engagement practices and communicate this priority across teaching and research initiatives.

? Plan and implement Partnership Orientation event prior to each semester to facilitate conversations between community partners and faculty members. ? Manage Faculty and Community Partner Resource website, trainings, toolkits, and other online resources; troubleshoot concerns related to community partnerships and service-learning courses.

Program and Project
? Coordinate the Community-Engaged Teaching & Research Advisory Board alongside the Director to solicit feedback and input on community-engagement efforts and programming.

? Support and coordinate a Service-Learning Fellows Program in partnerships with the Director and Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning through Research.

? Create and Manage on-boarding and training modules for faculty members and community partners.

? Innovate program development as it connects to the vision and goals of Community-Engaged Teaching & Research and City & Community Engagement.

Collaboration, Communications, and Events
? Manage and Coordinate the Annual Community-Engaged Teaching & Research Mixer.

? Manage and Coordinate the Bi-annual Publicly-Engaged Scholar-in-Residence Event.

? If applicable, manage part-time student workers for events and administrative support.

? Collaborate with CCE colleagues to ensure alignment of initiatives and contribute to CCE's broader goals and mission.

? Participate in special events and programs sponsored by CCE, as well as campus and community partners.

Qualifications:
? Bachelor's Degree required in related field.
? 1-2 years experience working in community-engagement at an institution of higher education and/or social change and community organizing.
? Demonstrated understanding and dedication to building responsible partnerships, diversity and inclusion, and social change.
? Strong communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
? The ability to work in a fast-paced, diverse and urban environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Salary Grade:
9

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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