Program and Alumni Coordinator
Position Summary |
This position will be the glue that weaves the relationships between the logistics planning and the summer trip, between community partners and staff, between families and the organization, and between new students and the alumni network. This person will be involved in the full planning process for summer trips, will be a trip leader on the program, and will act as an organizer and support for the alumni network.
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Organizational Background |
In 2011, we started a school to make life and learning indistinguishable as we connect, engage, empower, and educate young people to create a more just and healthy world. Our format has been a summer program that brings together diverse groups of students from across the United States to learn about critical regional issues through relationships with communities, story-telling, and experiences. It’s worked really well and our alumni have resoundingly asked us make this opportunity available to more students. The five programs have explored Northern New England, Central Appalachia, and the Southwest. The sixth program will be based in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa this summer, studying food and justice. We have been a scrappy, small organization capable of resourcefulness on a tiny budget, funded mostly by grassroots appeal donations from hundreds of small donors and the support of one (amazing) family foundation.
Our experiment in education has grown into a web of relationships, anchored on the experience of transformative education, between over fifty alumni, numerous community partners, educators, donors, and families across the United States. Now, our three founders are transitioning to support the next generation of the Field Academy as leadership is handed to a new team of three staff, including a Program Director, a Director of Strategy and Development, and this position. |
Position Details |
The Program and Alumni Coordinator will ensure high quality and logistically smooth educational programs and create meaningful experiences for students and teachers by identifying and working with students to support them and their families in accessing the Field Academy program; supporting the logistics of the trip and building relationships with community partners; ensuring a culture of safety and risk management by supporting proper planning for student programming. Additionally, they will coordinate and empower the Field Academy alumni network to envision and enact their ideas, and to integrate them with current student programming. They will ensure continuity between program staff, community partners, current students, and alumni.
This position’s time may be spent as follows (with heavier priorities at different times of year)
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RESPONSIBILITIES
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Outreach, Recruitment and Access
Trip Logistics and Community Partnership Development
Alumni Network Coordination
Administration, Media and Communication
Trip Leading
The ideal candidate will:
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