Bonner Center Campus & Community Partnerships Coordinator

Positioned within the College of Arts & Sciences, the Bonner Center brings together students, staff, faculty, and community partners to promote student learning, advance scholarship, and respond to community-identified goals and needs. Equity and access are fundamental to the Bonner Center's approach. The Center collaborates primarily in the City of Oberlin and throughout Lorain County where nonprofit and public sector organizations and residents work on a broad range of issue areas including education, food security, the arts, sustainability, historic preservation, immigration, and economic development. In addition, the Center fosters connections with national and international nonprofit organizations and NGOs, and supports the institution's efforts to expand relationships in Cleveland while maintaining more proximal, long-standing local partnerships.

The work of the Bonner Center intersects with key institutional priorities first outlined in our 2016 Strategic Plan and now at the heart of our ambitious One Oberlin plan. Both the Strategic Plan and One Oberlin identify experiential and connected learning as central to a transformative Oberlin education. The Bonner Center works closely with academic departments and Integrative Concentrations to cultivate meaningful community engagement opportunities for students, faculty, and staff, and is a core partner in the Center for Engaged Liberal Arts, encompassing Winter Term, Study Away, Undergraduate Research, Fellowships, and strategic alignment with the Career Development Center and Bonner Center, to integrate curricular and co-curricular experiential learning programs.

Responsibilities:

The Bonner Center Campus & Community Partnerships Coordinator will support the student cohorts within the Center and will also lead several programs and initiatives within the Bonner Center, including the following duties / essential functions:

Community Based Work Study Program

1. Coordinate and manage the budget request cycle for all participating community partners
2. Support recruitment process of student employees, including the maintenance of serve.oberlin and community partner participation in the annual connections fair
3. Facilitate onboarding and orientation sessions for newly hired student employee
4. Facilitate workshops for CBWSP student workers on topics related to Ethical Community Engagement
5. Monitor and oversee work-study allocations, ensuring no partners employing students or students, exceed their awarded allotment of funds
6. Using College software (currently Time Clock Plus) manage the approval process of CBWSP student hours for bi-weekly payroll

Bonner Center Programs

1. Lead efforts to discern community-expressed needs through outreach and ongoing relationship-building with existing and potential campus & community partners
2. Lead efforts to build and maintain system for reviewing campus & community partnerships, including but not limited to developing and maintaining serve.oberlin.edu (Get Connected) and promoting partnership opportunities for students, staff, faculty and community
3. Handle intake process for community partners and be a first point of contact for new and existing campus and community partners
4. Support the operations of the Bonner Center for Community-Based Learning and Research as needed
5. Support

About Oberlin College

Oberlin College & Conservatory is a four-year, highly selective liberal arts college that combines a top-ranked college of arts and sciences with a world-renowned conservatory of music. Combined, the two divisions enroll approximately 2,900 students. Founded in 1833, Oberlin College & Conservatory was the first college in America to make interracial education and coeducation central to its mission-traditions that live today within a commitment to positive social engagement. Located 35 miles southwest of Cleveland, OH, Oberlin College & Conservatory has earned a reputation of excellence based on the quality of its richly diverse student body, outstanding faculty, excellent facilities, and academic and technological resources. Learn more at http://new.oberlin.edu/about