Position: Issue Area Coordinator Social Justice and Sustainability 2016-2017
Mission: The Issue Area Coordinator (IAC) is responsible for providing support to student directors for the Social Justice
and Sustainability programs. The IAC provides professional leadership and ensures that all student directors are
adequately trained and prepared to direct high-quality volunteer programs in a positive, safe and fun environment.
The IAC conducts direct service alongside student volunteers. Theirs is a supportive role that allows student directors
to develop into strong leaders. In the event that a student director is sick or quits, an IAC may temporally fill-in so as
not to jeopardize the program success.
Qualifications:
 Current USU Student
 Volunteered at least for one year in the
Service Center, or demonstrate
possession of equivalent qualifications
(determined by Service VP and
Community Service Coordinator)
 Have a 2.5 GPA or higher
Compensation:
 May receive an AmeriCorps Education Award of $1212
(can be applied to future tuition or student loans) after
completing 300 hours. Talk with Service VP and
Community Service Coordinator to enroll
Partnerships:
 Communicate with the Social Justice & Sustainability issue area programs twice a month
 Collaborate with programs and Community partners in the Social Justice & Sustainability issue area
USU programs include: SNAC, STEP, Aggie Outdoor Volunteers, and Aggie Sustainability
Community Partners include: Food Recovery Network, Cache Food Pantry, Utah Conservation Corps, Nordic
United, Stokes Nature Center, and Bear River Land Conservancy
Service Center Responsibilities:
Programming Responsibilities:
 Attend the following events and assist as needed
 Leadership development
o Day on the Quad
opportunities
o Service Kick-Off (Fall semester)
 Logistical support for program
o Fall and Spring Retreats
directors
o Fall Volunteer Fair: Volunteer Recruitment
 Professional leadership
o Spring Volunteer Fair: Volunteer Re-Energize
 Ensuring all student directors are
 Attend established office hours: 3 hours a week during
adequately trained, prepared to
business hours
direct high quality volunteer
o Be available for meetings with students and staff
programs in safe, fun environment
 Fill out all required paperwork including:
 Direct service alongside student
o Dashboards
volunteers
o Risk Management Paperwork
 May temporarily fill in director
 NSOPW Background Checks
vacancies
 Photo Release Form
 Conduct Agreement
 Release, Acknowledgement of Risk, and
Waiver of Liability
 Track hours on AGS
 Actively inform and educate new volunteers for Service Center
 Meet with Service Center Coordinator once a week
 Plan and prepare for school year programming during the
summer
 Update IAC Program Binder
Issue Area Responsibilities:
Support student-directed volunteer service programs
 Conducts risk management audits each semester
for every program in the issue area
 Provides logistical support (be a part of committee
meetings, chat with directors, encourage
calendaring, set a schedule for calendar
information to be turned in)
 Meet twice a month with student directors within
the Issue Area
 Gather and disseminate campus and Service
Center service information to directors
 Develop and carry out training for directors
(volunteer management, promotion, planning,
risk, etc.)
 Serve as a mentor, resource, mediator for all
directors
 Maintains positive, professional attitude
 Ensures compliance with Service Center safety
protocols, reports policy violations to Service
Center Coordinator (driving practices, etc.)
 Researches and makes recommendations for
equipment purchases based on program needs
 Alternative Breaks: monitors facilitation of Alt
Breaks reflection, education, reentry activities,
makes sure time is set aside, everyone participates
 Serves as program director if needed
 Figure out how to make dashboard information
useable for future directors
 Visits volunteer sites to participate in
volunteering, come up with suggestions for
directors, gather feedback from community
partners and other organizations
Lesson Plan Development and Training
Responsibilities
Assist Service Center Coordinator and Service Center
VP in developing lesson plans, overseeing following
training topics
 P-card training
 Travel authorization requests
 Risk management
 Critical incident scenarios
 Leadership skills
 Volunteer management
 Program/project planning and organization
 Conflict resolution
 Debriefs and feedback (Dashboards?)
 Group food/menu planning
 Other
Community Partner Responsibilities
Coordinate between Community Partners and CCESL staff
for efficient and effective communication and program
implementation
 Works with Service Center Coordinator to strengthen
relationships with community partners (help administer
CP survey, help with assessment of Tiered Community
Partnership program)
 Reports to Service Center Coordinator, Service VP, and
CCESL Assistant Director on a regular basis
 Reports monthly to CCESL Assistant Director
 Works with Service VP to develop efficient equipment
storage and checkout system (inventory, cleaning out
old files)
Outreach Responsibilities
 Assists Service Center Coordinator and Service VP with
social media, tabling, distribution of information
 Assists Service-Learning director in providing USU faculty
with service center program information relevant to
their course content (getting community volunteer
needs to professors and classes in newsletter form?)
 Participate in forming an Aggie Summer Volunteer
program