Director of Community Partnerships and Learning

Founded in 1887 Clark was one of the first all-graduate institutions in the United States. Today the University is a highly-ranked student-centered institution educating approximately 2350 undergraduate and 1150 graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative effort. This commitment to scholarship and inquiry reflects the Universitys commitment to challenge convention and change our world and to address issues of critical importance to society. It is also reflected by Clarks many national and international distinctions including innovation community engagement and impact as a top green campus and for having a distinguished geography and international development program. Clark has also been included in the groundbreaking Colleges that Change Lives guide since it was first published in 1996.

Clark is located in Worcester Massachusetts a dynamic diverse city on the rise. The second largest city in New England Worcester is home to 11 institutions of higher learning and is increasingly recognized for its growing healthcare and biotechnology communities its thriving cultural scene and as a vibrant food hub.

Essential Responsibilities

I. Community Partnership Development and Management (30%)

• Work with community partners faculty staff and campus offices to translate partner needs into structured internships projects research placements course-based experiences or other student learning opportunities.
• Help community partners understand the range of possible student engagement models including internships short-term projects course collaborations research partnerships and funded placements.
• Maintain strong working relationships with community partners. Communicate with community partners to clarify and confirm student roles supervision learning goals timelines deliverables expectations and/or feedback. Document engagement in shared community partner CRM.
• Ensure that opportunities are appropriately posted promoted matched and supported.
• Collaborate with the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement to ensure that partner-facing communication and student opportunity development are coordinated. Help ensure that community-based student opportunities are reciprocal ethical appropriately scoped and useful to both students and partners.

II. Equity Access and Funded Opportunity Pathways (10%)

• Support other staff in the Career Exploration and Experiential Learning unit to do the following:
• Expand community-based internships projects research opportunities and other experiential placements.
• Support efforts to expand equitable access to community-based internships research experiences and experiential learning opportunities including connecting students to available opportunity funding.
• Partner with advisors career staff faculty and student-facing offices to help students identify and pursue community-based opportunities aligned with their goals.
• Identify and address barriers that prevent students from participating in community-based experiences.
• Help develop pathways that make community-engaged learning accessible to students across majors class years identities and financial circumstances.
• Track participation patterns to help Clark understand who is accessing community-based opportunities and where additional support is needed.

IV. Tracking Assessment and Student Opportunity Data (20%)

• Support tracking of student participation in community-based internships research projects course-based experiences funded placements and other experiential learning opportunities.
• Coordinate with the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement to ensure that student opportunity data connects with broader institutional partner records and community engagement reporting.
• Support integration among relevant systems including Handshake Slate/Insight Airtable or other project-tracking tools community partner CRM ePortfolio public-facing web displays and internal reporting systems.
• Develop reports on student participation experiential placements partner engagement reflection career readiness equity of access and outcomes.
• Collect partner and student feedback related to the quality of specific placements or learning experiences.
• Use data to improve opportunity design student preparation partner communication and institutional decision-making.

V. Faculty Staff and Campus Partner Support (20%)

• Serve as a resource for faculty and staff seeking to build student-facing community-based learning opportunities. Support faculty and staff in designing appropriately scoped community projects internships research placements or course collaborations. Help clarify operational needs such as timelines student preparation partner expectations deliverables supervision risk considerations and reflection.
• Coordinate with schools departments centers Community Engagement and Volunteering Student Success and other offices to align student-facing community opportunities.

VI. Communications Promotion and Strategic Alignment (20%)

• Help ensure that student-facing opportunities developed across the university are visible coordinated and assessable. Ensure that students can easily find community-based internships research opportunities projects funded placements and experiential learning options.
• Promote opportunities through appropriate platforms including Handshake webpages newsletters advising channels events and other student-facing communications.
• Support the development and maintenance of the opportunity-facing portions of the Collaborative for Community Engagement web presence.
• Work with Marketing and Communications the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement and campus partners to identify student stories and partner examples that demonstrate the value of community-engaged learning to make Clarks community-based student learning opportunities visible to prospective students families donors community partners and external reviewers.

Expected Outcomes

• Build a coherent student-facing community opportunity pipeline connected to Career Exploration and Experiential Learning.
• Increase the number and quality of community-based internships research opportunities course projects funded placements and experiential learning opportunities available to students.
• Connect community-based opportunities to The Clark Experience ePortfolio career readiness and professional identity development.
• Expand equitable access to paid and funded community-based experiential learning opportunities by expanding the number of partnerships available to students.
• Contribute to reliable systems for tracking student participation placement quality partner feedback reflection and outcomes.
• Provide faculty and staff with operational support for developing student-facing community-based learning opportunities.
• Feed student learning data placement outcomes partner feedback and stories back into the Collaborative for Community Engagement Carnegie evidence collection institutional reporting and public storytelling.

• Bachelors degree required. Masters degree preferred in a relevant field such as higher education administration student affairs career development community development education public administration nonprofit management social work urban studies experiential learning or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience is preferred including experience in one or more of the following areas: experiential learning career development community-engaged learning internship or placement coordination undergraduate research support student success nonprofit or community partnership development faculty support or higher education administration.
• Equivalent combinations of education professional experience and demonstrated experience developing student learning opportunities may be considered.
• Experience working in a college or university setting is strongly preferred. Experience developing internships community-based projects research placements course-based partnerships or other structured student learning opportunities is highly desirable. Experience working directly with students faculty and community partners is required.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to develop high-quality community and/or industry partnerships for undergraduate internships community-based projects research placements course collaborations funded experiences and other experiential learning pathways in at least one of Clarks areas of strategic focus: Media Arts Computing and Design; Science Health and Human Development; Civic and Global Engagement; Climate Environment and Society; and/or Business
• Strong understanding of student learning reflection career readiness professional identity development and the ways students articulate skills gained through experiential learning.
• Demonstrated commitment to equitable access to experiential learning including the ability to identify and address financial advising scheduling transportation identity social capital and other barriers to participation.
• Ability to translate community partner needs into realistic reciprocal ethical and appropriately supported student learning opportunities with clear roles supervision timelines deliverables learning goals expectations and feedback processes.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills including the ability to work respectfully and effectively with students faculty staff community partners career staff advisors schools departments centers student-facing offices families donors and external reviewers.
• Strong organizational and project management skills including the ability to manage multiple placements projects partners timelines communications systems and follow-up processes simultaneously while working independently and collaboratively.
• Experience with or willingness to learn systems used to promote track assess and report student opportunities such as Handshake Slate/Insight Airtable or other project-tracking tools ePortfolio platforms shared documentation systems and internal reporting tools.
• Strong communication data and assessment skills including the ability to make opportunities visible to students collect and analyze participation and outcome data report on placement quality and equity of access and communicate clearly with internal and external audiences.

Expected Hiring Range: $60900 to $78650

Pay Transparency Disclosure:
The compensation for this position will be determined based on factors that include available budget internal equity and the selected candidates qualifications experience education and other job-related credentials. This range represents Clark Universitys good-faith estimate of the expected hiring range at the time of posting consistent with Clarks compensation philosophy and internal alignment.

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