Americorps Student Services
- Employer
- University of Maryland Baltimore
- Location
- Baltimore, MD
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- Student Affairs, Counseling, Student Activities & Services
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
20 Full-Time AmeriCorps Members will work in pairs under our five Promise Heights Community School Coordinators and in partnership with Baltimore City Public School teachers to conduct individual assessments on chronically absent students. Students will be provided tiered services (universal, targeted, and intensive). PromiseCorps will make appropriate referrals, follow-up on and monitor referrals, and enter data in our management information system. PromiseCorps will work with Community School Coordinators to develop and manage high-quality partnerships to support the school community, including the creation of a cadre of volunteer tutors from area undergraduate and graduate schools. PromiseCorps will be a critical part of a school-based team working together to support student success and family stability.
PromiseCorps is a program supported by AmeriCorps and, as such, is considered national service and not employment.
Promise Heights is an initiative within the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore City. It is a collaboration between community-based organizations and five public PK-12 schools working with children and families living in high poverty neighborhoods in West Baltimore to improve educational outcomes to ensure youth graduate from high school ready for college and career. Promise Heights employs licensed social workers as Community School Coordinators to assist schools in providing supportive services for students and families through whole-school strategies and individual referrals. The initiative will focus on reducing chronic absenteeism (missing 20 or more days per year) and improving school climate (behavior, relationships, and physical environment) to reduce barriers to academic success.
Program Benefits: Education Award ($6,095), Training, Living Allowance ($20,000), Health Coverage (if needed), Child Care Subsidy (if needed), Membership to the Y of Central Maryland, and Application Fee waived for University of Maryland School of Social Work (for interested applicants).
Primary Responsibilities:
PromiseCorps will build the capacity of schools to support students and families through the following duties:
- Work with Community School Coordinators and teachers to conduct individual student assessments for those at risk to be chronically absent.
- Develop an individual plan of action to support student achievement.
- Link students to support services and encourage them to reach their achievement goals.
- Monitor student performance in programs and services.
- Help families to support student success by fostering a home environment that encourages student achievement.
- Develop and track the student success plan in the management information system.
- Maintain and update all contacts, referrals, case management notes, and outcomes.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to learn and grow through a professional development plan process and succeed within a results-oriented culture.
- A devotion and ability to build close relationships with scholars and their families, and to motivate them through positive interviewing, feedback, and reinforcement.
- Experience and proficiency with technology.
- Knowledge of or willingness to learn about the cultural and internal barriers which may exist for low-income families to raising college-ready children.
- Strong commitment to belief and expectation that children growing up in West Baltimore can succeed academically.
- A passion for addressing issues of poverty, equity, and access.
- Highly motivated and innovative.
Program Start/End Date: August 15, 2020 to July 31, 2021
Terms: Permits attendance at school during off hours. Permits working at another job during off hours. Must have transportation (public or private) to school site.
Service Areas: Education, Community Outreach, Children/Youth
Skills: Team Work, General Skills, Writing/Editing, Leadership, Community Organization, Fundraising/Grant Writing, Communications, Youth Development, Social Services, Public Health, Education
If accommodations are needed for a disability, please contact Human Resource Services at 410-706-2606, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm EST. Maryland Relay can be accessed by dialing 711 (in-state) or 1-800-735-2258.
UMB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.
Job: CI Exempt or Non-Exempt Staff
Shift: Day Job
Organization: School of Social Work
Job Posting: Feb 28, 2020
Unposting Date: Ongoing
Organization
Welcome to the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland, founded in 1807 along a ridge in what was then called Baltimore Town. Today, this 61-acre research and technology complex encompasses 65 buildings in West Baltimore near the Inner Harbor. 
The University is Maryland's only public academic health, human services, and law center. Seven professional and graduate schools train the majority of the state's physicians, nurses, dentists, lawyers, social workers, and pharmacists.
Under the leadership of President Jay A. Perman, MD, the University is a leading partner in the redevelopment of the west side of Baltimore. The University of Maryland BioPark, which opened in October 2005, promotes collaborative research opportunities and bioscience innovation.
Sponsored research totaled $567.1 million in Fiscal Year 2010. With 6,349 students and 6,717 faculty members and staff, the University is an economic engine that returns more than $15 in economic activity for every $1 of state general funds appropriation. The University community gives more than 2 million hours a year in service to the public.
Mission
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the State¹s public health, law and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service. As a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, and using state-of-the-art technological support, we educate leaders in health care delivery, biomedical science, global health, social work and the law. We emphasize interdisciplinary education and research in an atmosphere that explicitly values civility, diversity, collaboration, teamwork and accountability. By conducting internationally recognized research to cure disease and to improve the health, social functioning and just treatment of the people we serve, we foster economic development in the City, State, and nation. We are committed to ensuring that the knowledge we generate provides maximum benefit to society and directly enhances our various communities.
Campus Data
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Equal Opportunity
The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and educational institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital status or veteran's status to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote employees and applicants for employment in all job levels with regard to their qualifications and without consideration to the aforementioned categories. Exceptions to this policy will be made only as allowed by law for example, due to bona fide occupational qualifications or lack of reasonable accommodations for disabilities.
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