CDL Family/Community Services Coordinator (HRLY 5)

CDL Family/Community Services Coordinator (HRLY 5)

Brief Summary of this Position:

Reporting to the Curriculum/Program Director of the CDL, the Family/Community Services Coordinator is a full-time position with 20 hours per week working with families and 20 hours per week working at the front desk, respectively. The CDL is a learning laboratory for college students and primarily serves children and families of students, staff, and faculty of Berea College. This position will focus on connecting families with appropriate resources. In addition, this job is a bridge-builder across the center to support a sense of community, with a special focus on connecting families to classrooms. This person works to create connections to our local community that enhance curriculum and children's connections to community. Lastly this person provides training to CDL community members regarding children, parenting, family relations, and advocacy.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Bachelor's degree in Child and Family Studies, Early Childhood Education, Psychology, or a related field.

Experience required to ensure success in this position:

• At least 3 years' experience working with children and families
• Experience working with college student families preferred.

Special skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Ability to work with adult learners
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to perform data collection, report writing, and program evaluation
• Excellent organization, communication, and relationship building skills.
• Willingness to learn about and implement Reggio-inspired practices

License, certification, or registration necessary:

• CPR/First Aid Certified (Adult, Child & Infant)
• Complete Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma Training (PAHT)
• Complete Orientation I & II
• T.B. Skin Test
• Food Handlers Certificate
• Valid driver's license
• Required background checks (criminal and child abuse and neglect)

Physical requirements:

• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds
• Ability to travel independently by car and/or plane
• Ability to occasionally lift up 20 pounds

Environmental conditions:

• Professional office environment with interruptions and noise due to frequent visitors, students, staff and faculty
• Occasional travel required for meetings, conferences, etc.

Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment:

• Standard office equipment: computer, fax, phone, etc.
• Vehicle - college vans/cars

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Regular and predictable attendance is essential. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Initiate collaborative partnerships with parents to establish mutual trust and respect
• Plan appropriate experiences to enhance parent-child relationships
• Assist in planning for student's success as college students and parents
• Conduct home visits with families to build relationships and assess needs
• Coordinate parent events and training on a regular basis
• Coordinate parent committees
• Conduct a CDL community needs assessment annually
• Compile and maintain a list of community resources to distribute as needed
• Provide comprehensive community resource information to families, individualizing to respond to the family's needs and concerns to the maximum extent possible
• Refer families to community agencies/programs; assess accessibility, relevance and usefulness of assistance received
• Work with families to complete required CDL paperwork, and child care subsidy when warranted
• Assist teachers to determine if referral is necessary, assist the teachers/families through the process of referral, and assess success in meeting child and family needs
• Quarterly report on status of families, including follow-up on services and outcomes
• Communicate family needs with CDL administration and staff
• Work with CDL Administrative Team and CDL teachers to facilitate family inclusion in classrooms
• Coordinate family transitions into the program
• Connect the CDL community to campus and community events, programs and departments
• Work at the front desk, approximately 20 hours per week, to establish and maintain relationships with families and the community
• Give tours of the CDL facility as necessary to potential families, donors, academic entities and other stakeholders
• Complete other front desk duties including answering phones and completing work orders as needed

Other roles/duties will be assigned as necessary to assist the College in the attainment of the goals set forth and the enhancement of a positive, respectful learning environment for all staff, faculty and students.

Founded in 1855, Berea College achieved national distinction as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls 1,600 students from 43 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $178,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and many are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College was again named one of the nation’s “Best Institutions for Undergraduates to Earn their College Degree” in the 2022 edition of The Princeton Review’s book, The Best 387 Colleges. Berea also appeared on four other lists within the publication: Best Colleges in the Southeast; Best Value Colleges; Best Green Colleges; and Tuition Free Schools. Berea College is ranked #148 by The Princeton Review – the highest-ranked Kentucky college, and the #3 “Best Value College” in the nation. Berea is one of only two private institutions ranked in the Top 10 for Value in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (THE) 2022 College Rankings. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #13 among the nation’s liberal arts colleges, recognizing Berea for maintaining “consistently high rankings thanks to their economic diversity, relatively strong graduation rates, and commitment to meeting students’ financial need.” U.S. News and World Report Rankings lists Berea as #30 among National Liberal Arts Colleges, including ranking Berea #1 in Service Learning, #2 for Most Innovative Schools, #3 in Co-ops/Internships, #4 in First-year Experiences, and tied for #13 in Best Undergraduate Teaching.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Note to Prospective Employees:

Each year, Berea College Public Safety publishes an annual report to the campus to make public crime statistics, policies, and procedures for Berea College.  This Annual Security Report, required by the Jeane Clery Act, Minger Act, and the Student Right To Know Act is now available for review.  For a full, printable version of the ASR, you can click here: https://www.berea.edu/public-safety/annual-security-report-2019/

For a policy-by-policy version that is easier to read and browse, please visit Public Safety’s website here: https://www.berea.edu/public-safety/annual-security-report-2019/