Community Engagement Associate: Community Connection Hub Service Support

Seasonal role: 1/10/2024-5/15/2025 

Estimated pay: $14.00 per hour 

Company division: Institute for Engaged Learning 

Location type: On-site 

Summer up to 25 hours per week, Academic year up to 10 hours per week 

Role Description  

DUE is home to IEL which is sponsoring these types of positions across campus. This specific position is part of the Community Engagement Associates program in which students work in a specific department on campus to support campus and community engagement initiatives. You will see more information on the specific job and department below.  

Department Sponsor:  

IUI Office of Community Engagement        

Family School and Neighborhood Engagement 

Community Engaged Service Support CEA  

The Community Engaged Service Support CEA works directly with a faculty or staff mentor to support the creation, expansion, or deepening of a community engagement/service learning project or program not connected to a specific course. In a community engaged service role, the employee should possess strong leadership and self-autonomy qualities as their responsibilities encompass administrative tasks, meeting coordination and programming obligations, and effective decision-making. Work may include but is not limited to collecting information, maintaining records and schedules, practicing written and oral communication, assisting with logistics, planning with community partners, and implementing program assessment and evaluation.  

 Number of positions available: 1 

Project Summary and Goals:  

The goals of the Community Connections Hub project are to create asset-based learning environments for students, families, and community members that protect, honor, and value curiosity, harmony, and positive cultural connections in family and community engagement. In addition, the project will build community-based academic allies who will work with the university to close academic opportunity gaps and improve the social emotional development and wellbeing of students in marginalized communities. Since education is a basic human right, this project will provide literacy support to family and community members by creating academic connections and providing equitable access to resources and services to specifically address Senate Bill 1’s mandate of increasing reading comprehension skills for students in grade 3. Therefore, this project will bring together families, community members, and the OCE staff to work collaboratively on improving early learners’ literacy skills through reading activities in the Community Connections Hub for family and community engagement.     

Positions, Duties, and Tasks:  

The Community Engaged Associate will work with the Family, School, and Neighborhood Engagement faculty and staff to build strong relationships with families and community partners in the Community Connection Hub to improve students' literacy by connecting with libraries and community centers. The CEA will implement community engaged best practices, technology, resources, and strategies to address the community's educational needs and improve students' and families' literacy wellbeing. Seeking the creativity and innovation of a CEA to help implement authentic family and community engagement with a focus on literacy. We are interested in adding a CEA with technological mastery to our team to support our office with communication between community partners and the university and to maintain our social media presence. 

Learning objectives:  

In accordance with the IUPUI Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success, experience in CEA positions will help students meet the learning outcomes below and become acquainted with the following profiles:  

Communicator  

Convey ideas effectively and ethically in oral, written, and visual forms across public, private, interpersonal, and team settings, using face-to-face and mediated channels  

Describe the value of being involved in service or other forms of community engagement  

Community contributor  

Identify community or social issues that need to be addressed  

Demonstrate evidence of respectful engagement with their own and other communities and cultures  

Problem solver  

Make connections among ideas and experiences 

Availability needed for the CEA(s) schedule:  

Weekly availability from 10 AM - 2 PM, flexibility in hours will be considered based on student class schedule