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City Passage Mentoring Program Director

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Boston Higher Education Resource Center

 

Boston HERC City Passage Mentor Program Director
Job Description
                    The City Passage Mentor Program Director is responsible for overseeing all the aspects of the Boston HERC City Passage Mentor Program, a faith-based program which exists to cultivate integrity and excellence in urban at-risk/high-risk youth through one-on-one mentoring, thereby inspiring success in higher education. Reporting to the Executive Director, the City Passage Mentor Program Director (“the Director”) is responsible for:
(1) recruiting qualified mentors and mentees – City Passage is the recipient of a federally-funded Amachi Public/Private Ventures Grant to connect, through community partnerships, 400 adult mentors with at-risk youth living in communities with high incarceration rates throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by 2012.
(2) providing leadership to currently two [2] Case Managers responsible for mentor/mentee screening, matching, training and on-going mentor/mentee match support. Successful leadership and supervision of Case Managers includes developing and implementing program policies and procedures consistent with meeting program objectives and accomplishing our shared mission.
(3) serving as the liaison between the City Passage Mentor Program Funders and Community Partners.
 
Qualifications:
  • Undergraduate degree.
  • Commitment to Christian principles.
  • Strong entrepreneurial skills – a self-starter.
  • Gifted at creating and sustaining networks of mutually-beneficial community partnerships.
  • Excellent writing and communication skills; be skilled at public speaking; and, be competent in applying problem-solving skills.
  • Detail-oriented; multi-tasking; highly organized.
  • Committed to the empowerment low-income people and communities.
  • Capable of coaching youth in leadership development. 
  • Bi-lingual Spanish:English strongly recommended.
 
Hours: 35 hours per week. Must be available evenings and occasional weekends. 
 
Salary/Benefits: Commensurate with experience.
 
Deadline to apply: Accepting applications until March 14, 2011. 
 
Please send resume and cover letter to: Samuel Acevedo, Executive Director, Boston HERC, 68 Northampton St., Boston, MA 02118 or info@bostonherc.org

 

Location:
Boston Higher Education Resource Center
68 Northampton St.
Boston, MA, 02118
United States
Application Deadline: 
03/14/2011
Location: 
Boston Higher Education Resource Center
68 Northampton St.
Boston, MA, 02118
United States
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