Community Outreach Internship Jobs in Riverside, CA

ALTA VISTA INNOVATION HIGH SCHOOL

Full Time, Monday - Friday; 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., including nights and weekends.

This position provides support to various school sites within the region, including Adelanto, Apple Valley and Hesperia. The role may require travel between locations to meet site-specific needs.

Help Us Change Lives

We live by the motto that “There is a Student in Front of Everything We Do” and we are very passionate about it.  Do you have a passion to work with students? If so, then this is an exciting opportunity for you! You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students supporting their growth and development. Remember the person who made a difference in your life? Now it’s your turn.

Learn more about us at https://learn4life.org/

How You Will Make an Impact

The Community Liaison (CL) will support the program objectives, including supporting collaborative relationships with community organizations, businesses, and individuals to engage students to strengthen job skills and participate in job shadowing and/or internships. The Community Liaison will also support students enrolling, completing community college courses, and meeting the program requirements for high school graduation. This position will also establish and support the growth of collaborative relationships with community organizations, businesses, and individuals to engage students and increase public awareness of the organization’s educational solutions and programs favorably. This position reports to the Principal or designee. 

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES: This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position's duties, responsibilities, and requirements. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with this classification. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. 

• Interface with communities and openly represent the organization among the public, including public officials, businesses, and other agencies.
• Establish and maintain a regional network of relationships with community organizations, businesses, and individuals to promote the Organization’s educational solutions and engage students.
• Collaborates with school leadership to assess school needs and assets, identify gaps, goals, and initiatives, and engage with community partners to provide resources, such as coordinating trauma-informed health, mental health, and social services.
• Coordinates and implements outreach to parents of students and family members; this includes home visits, home-school collaboration, and culturally responsive community partnerships. 
• Support educators and school administrators in planning, developing, and implementing career pathways, programs, and community school engagement.
• Visitations to community partners and businesses to support students and placements for job shadowing, internships, and work-based learning.
• Recruit, coordinate, and manage parent and community involvement in programs, grants, advisory committees, school events, and support coordination of community activities; this may include academic support, real-world learning opportunities through the establishment of MOUs for internship, project-based learning, before and after school care, and summer programs. 
• Initiate work-based learning opportunities such as guest speakers, job shadowing, workplace tours, and service projects.
• Collect data and assist in the completion of reports for the GSPP annual review and other reports as needed.
• Facilitate and maintain a program of career preparation and internships for students.
• Maintain professional memberships and attend conferences and events to keep current with state standards and regulations in Career Technical Education (CTE).
• Serve as a local expert on Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act governance structure, youth service providers, and programs.
• Utilize established tools and guidelines to engage and enroll students.
• Distribute information and demonstrate tact and diplomacy in representing the organization.
• Maintain documentation and report on progress related to community and student outreach activities.
• Utilize established reporting mechanisms and provide written reports to management.
• Collaborate with other departments and divisions to meet objectives.
• Assist in planning and implementation of events.
• Perform administrative duties, responsibilities, and activities that may be assigned or changed from time to time. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• Manage, coordinate, supervise, coach, and direct the hiring, training, timely performance evaluations of team members, oversee their daily activities and oversee the daily workflow of the department. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and procedures relevant to the area of employment.
• Knowledge and understanding of the organization’s culture, business units, services, and products. 
• Ability to interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to exercise critical thinking, use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. 
• Ability to analyze business data or information: identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data. 
• Ability to make decisions, solve systems, and process problems, analyze information, and evaluate results to choose the best solution. 
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple requests or interruptions while still completing projects or work assignments in a timely manner.
• Self-sufficient, resourceful, and committed to providing excellent customer service.  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or 2 years total professional experience in Community Outreach, Community Relations, or Community Schools.
• Able to perform some evening student recruitment and/or evening meetings; occasionally working on Saturday and/or Sunday.
• Knowledge and/or experience in project management, program development, organizing, prioritizing, coordinating, implementing, and managing multiple programs, projects, tasks and building teams required.
• Strong autonomy, reliable, responsible, dependable and willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.  
• Proficient level of skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other technology applications.
• Ability to travel performance of job duties is required. 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Vision: Ability to read small print and view a computer screen for prolong periods, prepare, or inspect documents and operate office equipment. 
• Hearing: Ability to hear average or typical conversations and receiving ordinary information.
• Speech: Ability to be understood in face-to-face communication, in person or remote, to speak with level of proficiency and volume to be understood over a telephone or computer. 
• Mental Demands: Ability to read, write, understand, interpret, and apply information at a moderately complex level essential for successful job performance; math skills at a high school proficiency level; judgement and the ability to process information quickly; learn quickly and follow verbal procedures and standards; give verbal instruction; rank tasks in order of importance; copy, compare, compile and coordinate information and records. Frequent multi-tasking, changing of task priorities, repetitious exacting work. Understand how to manage stress. medium workflow management, high project coordination, and high people engagement.
• Upper Body Mobility: Ability to use fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together, use hands to grasp, and manipulate small objects; twist and bend at wrist and elbow; extend arms to reach outward and upward; use hands and arms to lift objects; turn, raise, and lower head.
• Strength: Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull objects weighing up to 10 pounds.    
• Environmental Requirements: Ability to meet constant work interruptions; work cooperatively with others; work independently; work indoors. Prolonged period sitting at a desk and working on a computer.  Work in a moderate to high noise environment with frequent deadline pressures.