GENERAL DUTIES
Responsible for the daily planning and implementation of small group activities and direct supervision of children. Actively participates in both small and large group activities. Group Leaders work approximately 20-25 hours per week 1:30am -6:00pm. Group Leaders must also be available to work full-time during school vacations from 8:15am - 6pm.
QUALIFICATIONS
Candidate must meet the qualifications for Group Leader as specified by the Office for Children -- A Group Leader must be at least 18 years of age and meet one of the following sets of requirements: 1) Have a Bachelor's Degree or an Associate's Degree; and have 3 months of experience working with school age children; or 2) Have a high school diploma or equivalent; and have 6 months experience working with school age children including 3 months supervised experience at a school age child care program. A demonstrated interest and commitment to working with children and families is necessary. Experience in designing and leading activities for children is strongly preferred.

Roxbury Tenants of Harvard—a multi-purpose, resident-controlled neighborhood grassroots nonprofit adjacent to the Longwood Medical Area- seeks an enterprising and skilled Program Coordinator. Under the supervision of the After School Program Director, the Program Coordinator assists in a variety of functions including communication, planning, marketing and evaluation of the After School and Summer Day Camp programs for youth between the ages 5 to 12. The successful candidate will demonstrate experience working in a diverse multicultural community setting and providing high quality educational services in and out-of-school or related environment.
The position will be available March/April 2012.

A non-benefitted, full-time position (40 hours/week), the Assistant/Coordinator will use traditional and social-media-oriented research skills to identify and communicate information that supports the work of NERCHE\'s Project Compass, a multi-year, grant-funded initiative designed to narrow achievement gaps for underserved students in four New England campuses.

The individual will also lead the coordination and implementation of two project conferences as well as a series of webinars. The Assistant/Coordinator will serve as the liaison to campus-based student representatives who are working on short-term action research projects; the individual communicates technical assistance occasionally to campus administrators and faculty. As a member of the NERCHE staff, the individual will support other NERCHE-related initiatives as appropriate. This is a grant-funded position extending until 12/31/2012 with some possibilities for continuation.

Under the supervision of the Project Director, the Resource Assistant/Conference Coordinator will:
• Plan all aspects of professional conferences/meetings, including pre-planning, site and meeting logistics, on-site management (including troubleshooting on-site), pre- and post-meeting correspondence, and other related activities.
• Provide daily resource updates via email, web-page, and other social media related to campus-based interventions. These will include information about upcoming meetings, recently published reports, or other documents;
• Be responsible for updating the Project Database of research studies and related documents supporting the work of funded campuses;
• Plan, organize, and implement a series of Virtual Think Tanks, webinar-like meetings focused on critical themes and designed to attract national audiences;
• Generate reports, informational and formal communications, and promotional web-based material oriented toward project meetings, Virtual Think Tanks, and other activities;
• Provide technical assistance and peer support for student leaders involved in project activities;
• Collaborate on enhancing social-media presence for the Project, using Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and/or other appropriate resources;
• Actively participate in regularly scheduled Project Compass and NERCHE staff meetings;
• Identify and summarize funding resources for participating campuses;
• Provide planning and logistical support toward the facilitation of campus meetings as needed;
• Fulfill other project-related responsibilities as needed.

Job Qualifications:
• Bachelor\'s Degree in Liberal Arts. Interest in higher education as an area of study preferred.
• Strong web-based research skills demonstrating capacity to conduct Boolean searches and assess appropriateness and quality of intended outputs; web-development skills a plus.
• Fluency using social media to maximize communication among various groups;
• Experience locating project-development and funding resources, including requests for proposals (RFPs) and foundation-based grants;
• Ability to synthesize complex written information and summarize key themes in logically organized reports and/or written briefs;
• Experience and fluency using WebEx, Adobe Connect, and/or other virtual meeting applications to facilitate easy communication and opportunities for collaboration;
• Strong communication skills, including written and spoken communication;
• Strong orientation to collaboration, group work, and active problem solving;
• Working knowledge of general issues related to underserved student success and the structure and culture of colleges and universities in the U.S.;
• Willingness to travel to project meetings, possibly involving overnight stays;
• Evidence of ability to do administrative work under pressure, including flexible problem solving, and team management.
Application Requirements: Send a cover letter and resume documenting evidence of relevant experience and interest in the position. Include names and contact information for three professional references.

Fee For Service Clinician

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Reports directly to CEO.
Sees a caseload of clients and completes all appropriate paperwork in a timely fashion
Works as a team member to meet project objectives
Perform additional related duties as required
Attends two meetings per week
Expected to attend all CFFC trainings (CEUs available)
Receives supervision (individual and group)
Participates in on-call phone rotation

QUALIFICATIONS

Licensed to practice in social work, expressive therapy, psychology, or marriage and family therapy
LICSW, LMFT or LMHC
Five or more years of experience, preferably with adoption related work
Knowledge of HIPAA standards
Substantial experience and knowledge in current clinical principles and practices in adoption consulting and training, trauma, foster care or family systems therapy.
Demonstrated skills in effective communication and organization

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Would meet with 15-25 clients a week
Full Fee For Service plan to be explained at interview
Positions available immediately

Send cover letter and resume to Maryl@kinnect.org or fax to 617-497-5952

Center For Family Connections
350 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141
kinnect.org

Center For Family Connections (CFFC) is a leading provider of support servicesto adoption, foster care, and complex blended families* to provide consultation on permanency planning for children.

At a fundamental level, CFFC\\\'s mission is to help children feel safe, seen, and valued, and to help them adjust to the challenges of being, or having been, moved from one family to another.

Critical to the CFFC philosophy is an understanding that adoption, foster placement, guardianship and other life-altering family changes are not isolated events, but part of a life-long process. Through decades of experience working in the adoption field, CFFC has developed an array of services to address the many stages in the continuum of care of foster care, guardianship, kinship care, as well as adoption.

* What do we mean by \\\"complex blended families?\\\"

Root families are families where the mother and father who gave birth to the child are also parenting the child together...
Complex families are every other type of family structure...
Complex blended families are a blending of many families by adoption, fostering, kinship care, remarriage, or alternative reproductive technologies

The MCSP Executive Committee will be hiring for the newly-created position of Managing Director for the Coalition. The position will replace the Coalition Coordinator. The Managing Director will lead the Coalition in becoming a more formal membership organization. The position will take on both the administrative responsibilities of the current Coalition coordinator and the management functions of our growing organization. The Managing Director will have overall responsibility to ensure that Coalition objectives are clearly stated and that activities are focused on the achievement of the Coalition's mission. They will also lead the MCSP to develop and implement a strategy for the Coalition to transition to a dues-paying/fundraising organization. Click for duties & qualifications. Email resumes to Janice.Ventre@state.ma.us.

National Center for Youth in Custody Seeks Program Director

The National Center for Youth in Custody (NC4YC) is seeking a program director. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention created NC4YC in 2010 to improve and reform youth detention and correction facilities and adult facilities housing youthful offenders.

The program director will manage the activities of the center, including collaborations and communications with partner organizations, reviewing and responding to requests for technical assistance, representing NC4YC at conferences across the nation, maintaining the center's Web site, and more.

Send letters of interest and resumes to: Darlene Conroy, Administrative Assistant, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, 170 Forbes Road, Braintree, MA 02184, or emailed to Darlene.Conroy@cjca.net.

Resources:

To learn more about NC4YC, visit www.nc4yc.org.

Read the job announcement online at http://nc4yc.org/about-us/career-opportunities.html.

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