CA DEPT TRANSPORTATION (5) - 2004

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Community Center Aide: This is a vacant position that will be filled pending a grant award. This person will act as the central liaison between all partners and the lead agency and will facilitate a team of program staff, students, parents, teachers, and school officials to ensure that the program serves the highest risk students, that the assessments are conducted appropriately and that adequate and realistic goals and objectives are well defined and that the appropriate interventions are designed for each student. This person will also coordinate with all program staff and partners to schedule five recognition activities to recognize students as they achieve benchmarks. It would be ideal to hire an existing school staff person, as school personnel already are familiar with the school system and are generally authorized to access school data. This person will be required to have a minimum of two years of relevant experience and to demonstrate that he/she has the education and/or experience to complete the required job duties. Program Coordinators: This is a general job classification that is used for staff, which is responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating specific programs that require the achievement of defined goals and objectives. All Program Coordinator positions identified are vacant positions that will be filled pending a grant award. These positions require a minimum of two years of relevant experience. Six Program Coordinators will be hired as follows: 1. Teen Services: This Program Coordinator will be responsible for providing direct services required to accomplish the goals and objectives set forth for the teen club activities and the leadership development activity that will be completed by Spurgeon Intermediate School students. This will include coordinating with the lead agency's Project PRIDE staff to recruit target area teens and to provide direct supervision of the teens during their club activities. This Program Coordinator will also organize the leadership development activity for 10 Spurgeon students, including making necessary reservations, securing parent permission, preparing the teens for the activity, and providing direct supervision during the activity. 2. Mentoring Services: This Program Coordinator will be responsible for providing direct services and supervision to accomplish the goals and objectives set forth for the peer mentor and SAPD mentor activities. This will include coordinating with Project PRIDE staff to recruit and train "veteran" teen club members, placing teens into groups and identifying their interests and capabilities, and matching target area elementary school students with the appropriate teen mentor teams. This will also include working with the SAPD officers to organize activities where officers can interact with groups of Spurgeon students in informal ways that allow the officers to act as positive role models and to give advice and direction. 3. Academic Activities: Three Program Coordinators will be responsible for providing direct services and supervision to accomplish the goals and objectives set forth for the academic achievement activities. Two Program Coordinators will be assigned to Spurgeon School with 15 students each and one will be assigned to the three elementary schools with a total of 15 students (5 from each school). They will work as part ofthe team facilitated by the Community Center Aide to identify student participants, assist with academic and behavioral assessments, and develop academic achievement plans. The Program Coordinators will provide academic activities at the McFadden Education and Technology Center and/or at the schools as necessary and will work together to organize and conduct 6 educational excursions for students as they achieve their benchmarks.