Service Leader Positions and Application
Below are the position requirements and descriptions for Service Leader positions at the 91ɬÂþ Community Engagement Center.
for the 2024-25 school year will open on Monday, March 4 and close Monday, March 25 at 5 pm. today!
Students who are selected to be Service Leaders are required to:
- Attend a Service Leader Orientation Saturday, April 13, 9 am-2 pm, 2024
- Attend a Service Leader Retreat August 21-23, 2024
- Attend weekly Service Leader meeting during the 2024-25 school year, Wednesdays from 6-7 pm
- Spend two office hours per week in the Center providing office coverage, preparing for your program, working on projects, familiarizing self with local opportunities, etc.
- Represent the Community Engagement Center at Thunder U, Welcome Week, Homecoming events, and other University events
- Assist with Center events; club fairs, Volunteer Fair, Thank You Reception, and others
- Be an 91ɬÂþ student (at least half time)
- Have and maintain a 2.5 or better grade point average
- Service Leaders are provided with a $200 bookstore stipend, a couple of cool shirts and a great leadership and personal development experience
Position Descriptions
- Coordinate with local middle schools to advertise and identify potential youth participants
- Plan and oversee weekly physical activities for middle school aged youth, including advertising to youth, securing location, recruiting 91ɬÂþ volunteers
- Provide occasional additional enrichment activities for youth to encourage academic success
- Plan and carryout, with the help of the CEC staff and trip advisor(s), all aspects of the alternative break including fundraising, student recruitment, travel arrangements, liability management, on-site activity planning, etc.
- May include coordinating with Habitat for Humanity, Via International, IVHQ, Break a Difference, or other service organizations
- Plan and carryout, with the help of the ASB advisor(s), all aspects of the alternative break including fundraising, student recruitment, travel arrangements, liability management, on-site activity planning, etc.
- May include coordinating with Habitat for Humanity, Via International, IVHQ, Break a Difference, or other service organizations.
- Plan and carryout monthly Bread & Soup Nite, including coordinating food, entertainment, location, publicity, etc.
- Coordinate with the HOPE Pantry Service Leader to create and distribute information on food insecurity and food resources
- Maintain Pantry including shelving and rotating stock, maintaining referral literature
- Coordinate with groups interested in helping with “can” or hunger activities
- Recruit and oversee Pantry volunteers
- Coordinate with the Bread & Soup Nite Service Leaders to create and distribute information on food insecurity and food resources
- Assist in planning and providing educational programs including Wecipe Wednesday, Thunderbird Test Kitchen, budgeting/eating on a budget workshops, etc.
- In coordination with CEC staff, plan all aspects of three mini-breaks per semester (mini-breaks are one to three-day break experiences done in closer proximity to campus than the longer alternative breaks).
- Recruit and oversee 91ɬÂþ volunteer participants
- Coordinate with local Paiute Center to assist with reading help/tutoring four afternoons per week, Monday-Thursday, 4-5:30 pm
- Recruit 91ɬÂþ volunteers to participate
- Assist with incentive programs for Paiute youth
- Assist in planning and running leadership retreats and weekly Service Leader meetings
- Serve as a liaison for the Service Leaders and the CEC Advisory Council and other campus organizations and offices, such as Athletics, Presidential Ambassadors, 91ɬÂþSA, SPB, UHS, etc.
- Assist in planning one-time events, including Homecoming events, Paint the Town Red, club fairs, Interfaith Thanksgiving, Read Across America Day, Volunteer Fair or Service Carnival, Make a Difference Day, Thank you Reception, etc.
- Please note: This position requires prior participation as a Service Leader
- Coordinate with Iron County Holiday Assistance to oversee Sub for Santa programming on campus, including Angel Tree, fund raising events, etc.
- Coordinate community-based Angel Trees
- Coordinate one to two community-based fund/toy-raisers
- Coordinate with the Cedar Public Library to arrange a weekly story hour geared toward pre-k through 3-grade aged children.
- Plan weekly age-appropriate stories/activities
- Recruit 91ɬÂþ volunteers to assist
- Recruit club members
- Coordinate weekly service activities, including opportunities to participate in on and off-campus events
- Coordinate with East Elementary to schedule time/location and advertise to East families and youth
- Recruit and oversee 91ɬÂþ student volunteers
- Plan and oversee weekly dance activities for elementary school aged youth
- Offer additional enrichment activities or opportunities to youth/families as needed
- Coordinate with the area Head Start preschool and the 91ɬÂþ pool to arrange swimming lessons
- Advertise to Head Start parents
- Recruit 91ɬÂþ student volunteers, Red Cross certified swim instructors and others
- Provide three to four six-week sessions during the school year