Campus Recruitment Ambassador

City Year, Inc. Headquarters POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Campus Recruitment Ambassador

About City Year

City Year is dedicated to helping students and schools succeed. Diverse teams of 18-25 year olds, called City Year AmeriCorps members, serve full-time in high-poverty urban schools, providing high-impact student, classroom, and school-wide support to help students stay in school and on track to graduate from high school, ready for college and career success.

A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is made possible by support from the Corporation for National and Community Service, school district partnerships, and private philanthropy from corporations, foundations and individuals.

City Year Service

City Year works to bridge the gap in high-poverty communities between the support that students actually need and hat their schools are designed and resourced to provide. In doing so, we're helping to increase the graduation rates across the country and changing the lives of the students we serve.

At City Year's 27 locations across the United States, highly trained young adults, our AmeriCorps members, work full-time in schools for 11 months providing individualized supports to students. We partner with schools and districts to identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time with their peers, and provide them with extra academic, emotional and social support that they need to be successful in college and a career.

Position Overview

Reporting to a Regional Recruitment Manager, the Campus Recruitment Ambassador (CRA) is responsible for helping to recruit a highly qualified corps of diverse 18-25 year olds on their college campus. The CRA is expected to give between 40 and 60 hours a semester. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: attending career fairs, executing marketing campaigns, outreach to student organizations and academic departments, scheduling and organizing information sessions, wearing City Year gear on campus, and other unique opportunities identified at a specific school.

Summary

The Campus Recruitment Ambassador is a contracted position that is the primary implementer of a campus-specific campaign aimed at inspiring talented and well-rounded students to apply to City Year. The CRA will support City Year’s efforts to recruit talented and diverse college students and raise City Year’s general visibility on campus. The CRA is the in-the-field representative and the ‘voice’ of City Year on their campus. In this position, the CRA will utilize and enhance their professional skills in networking, marketing strategies, and communication while gaining an understanding of how a successful nonprofit organization operates.

Responsibilities, to be discussed with your manager and adjusted to meet your campus’ unique needs:  Attend 1 career fair representing City Year in the fall and 1 career fair in the spring  Organize and market at least 4 class presentations and/or information sessions per semester  Host 4 tabling or touch-point events in high traffic areas around campus  Support Manager with marketing campaign and information gathering  Reach out to students on campus, encourage them to consider applying to City Year, and collect contact information via CRA interest form  Distribute City Year marketing materials on and around campus before every deadline  Network with professors and student organizations to identify unique recruitment opportunities  Assist in recruiting future Campus Recruitment Ambassadors

Qualifications

 Be a U.S. Citizen or legal permanent resident  City Year Alumni strongly encouraged to apply, but prior service not required  Full-time student at college / university  Belief in young people as agents of social change  Ability to connect with peers  High level of initiative and personal responsibility  Ability to work independently against deadlines  Excellent organizational skills  Strong written and verbal communication skills  Ability to multi-task  Able to build relationships on campus with diverse student groups

Benefits

 $250 per semester with added performance based initiatives  Leadership experience  Training  Exposure to prominent staff and administration  Networking opportunities  City Year uniform

Application The application for this position is located at: http://alumni.cityyear.org/?page=CampusRecruitment

All completed applications should be sent to Meaghan Reilly, National Recruitment Coordinator, at [email protected]. A representative from the Recruitment Department will be in touch to discuss this opportunity further. Offers are dependent on strength of applicant and need for given school.