As of February 22, 2012 there are two open positions at CIL in our new Peer Mentor Provider Program:
Peer Mentor Program Outreach Provider (Two part-time positions) - posted 02/22/2012
Peer Mentor Program Introduction/Overview
The Center for Independent Living, headquartered at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California, is launching a leading edge peer-based program for transition age youth with physical disabilities (typically, aged 15-26).
It is well known that these years are critical in the formation of independent lives for people with disabilities, and this program seeks to provide positive impact by matching college age youth who are successfully transitioning to full community participation with high school youth with physical disabilities.
The new CIL Program will outreach broadly to the Alameda County population of transition age youth. The program will identify and enroll mentors and mentees from the target age group and will provide a unique, inspirational and educational program of both group and one-on-one activities for the program participants.
CIL is seeking one or more individuals to implement and coordinate this program, reporting to a CIL Program Manager. The incumbent(s) will deliver services across Alameda County. While CIL has listed two distinct positions, we are open to combing the positions into one 30 hour per week position for the right individual.
This is an exceptional opportunity for those with the ability to deeply relate to the physically disabled transition age youth experience and to create a leading edge program of peer-based support at a critical life juncture. As an organization staffed predominantly by people with disabilities of all types, ages and backgrounds, we embrace diversity in our employees and actively seek to broaden diversity in our workforce.
Position 1 (posted 02/22/2012)
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Position: Peer Mentor Program Outreach Provider
Hours: Part-time (15 hours per week)
Supervisor: Program Manager
Location: Berkeley
Program Overview: Center for Independent Living is introducing a new program for Alameda County physically disabled transition age youth (ages 15-26). This program will use college age youth with physical disabilities to act as peer mentors to high school age youth with physical disabilities who reside within Alameda County. The program will provide a complete framework for educating, identifying, assessing, enrolling, training, engaging, monitoring and exiting participants. The program will be staged by two part time positions (which may, at CIL’s discretion, be combined into one position), one of which will perform extensive outreach on behalf of all aspects of the program, the other which will administrate the mentor/mentee components of the program.
Summary: The Peer Mentor Program Outreach Provider will provide an array of outreach activities to a broad array of program constituents. Activities will include group presentations, one on one meetings and conferences, social media (YouTube, website, Facebook, Twitter, et al), email/direct mail and many other forms of public relations and business development. Up to 80% of this positions available time will be spent directly engaging potential program participants and their influencers. Constituent populations include potential mentors, potential mentees, mentor and mentee community members and peers (all high school and college age youth, all Alameda County youth ages 15-26, Alameda County youth with physical disabilities aged 15-26, statewide potential mentors in the target age and disability group, et al), educators, education program administrators, disabled youth/student program administrators, disabled youth CBOs and governmental agencies, other community organizations, recreational groups, youth counselors, parents, medical providers (including behavioral health), social activity program providers and all other potential influencers of target populations.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing and implementing a broad program of effective community based outreach and education in support of the Peer Mentorship Program goals.
- Develops all marketing and communications tools needed to support outreach efforts
- Identifies and solicits all outreach targets
- Identifies, solicits and refers for assessment all potential program mentors and mentees
- Develops on-going, productive relationships with other organizations though face to face meeting, phone calls, electronic communications (including social media) and group presentations
- Extensive travel (up to 80%) throughout Alameda County including evenings and weekends
- Provides post meeting follow up communication accordingly
- Maintains open lines of communication
- Other duties as assigned
Education and/or Experience:
- College graduate or currently in pursuit of post-secondary education.
- Able to be an effective peer and role model to physically disabled transition age youth through direct experience.
Qualifications:
Required: Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications (both written and oral) skills. Effective and compelling in face to face interactions. Excellent digital technology skills, including MS Office (particularly Powerpoint) and social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, et al). Strong decision making skills and adept at problem solving and relationship building. Must work well under pressure. Creative and detail oriented. Must have an appreciation for and ability to relate well to people from diverse backgrounds and of all ages. Independent, self-directed and self-disciplined.
Preferred: Counseling/Case Management experience, Motivational Interviewing knowledge, Group Facilitation, public speaking and tangible social media development experience.
Work Environment
This work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
As part of the employment process at the Center for Independent Living, we will request that you complete financial disclosure forms. This information is required to be gathered from all new employees to comply with certain New Market Tax Credit program requirements, under which program the Center for Independent Living has benefited. All information submitted will be kept strictly confidential
CIL Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Persons with disabilities, veterans, women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Application Procedures:
Announcement may close at any time.
Please type the position name in the subject line of an email to hr@cilberkeley.org and attach a completed CIL Application form and EEOC survey
Fax, (510) 841-6168; Mail, CIL, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703. Resume and cover letter may be submitted but may not be substituted for an official CIL application.
Reply as soon as possible. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
The Center for Independent Living provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Personnel Administrator at (510) 841-4776 X3150 or email hr@cilberkeley.org. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by case basis.
Position 2 (posted 02/22/2012)
Position: Peer Mentor Program Administrator
Hours: Part-time (15 hours per week)
Supervisor: Program Manager
Location: Berkeley
Program Overview: Center for Independent Living is introducing a new program for Alameda County physically disabled transition age youth (ages 15-26). This program will use college age youth with physical disabilities to act as peer mentors to high school age youth with physical disabilities who reside within Alameda County. The program will provide a complete framework for educating, identifying, assessing, enrolling, training, engaging, monitoring and exiting participants. The program will be staged by two part time positions (which may, at CIL’s discretion, be combined into one position), one of which will perform extensive outreach on behalf of all aspects of the program, the other which will administrate the mentor/mentee components of the program.
Summary: The Peer Mentor Program Administrator will provide all aspects of program administration for participants. The Administrator will develop and manage all components, including mentor and mentee assessment, intake, training, mentor/mentee matching, engagement (activities/events/sessions), on-going monitoring, counseling and exiting. The Administrator will collaborate with mentors and other program resources to conceive and develop all program content, including training modules, educational and social activities, communications platforms (e.g., Facebook pages/Twitter channels/Blogs), intake/exit assessment tools and all other data collection and reporting systems as required by program management and the funder. The Administrator will collaborate with numerous internal and external constituents to provide the most informed and engaged program opportunities for all program participants.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing, implementing and managing a robust and effective mentor/mentee engagement program.
- Develops, implements and manages all collection and reporting tools for assessment, monitoring, exiting and evaluation of program efficacy.
- Conceives, develops, implements and administrates all engagement activities (including venues and external participants/speakers/et al), including activities involving all program participants as well as supporting and monitoring all isolated engagement between individual mentor and mentee pairings.
- Insures proper training of all program participants, including curriculum development.
- Insures appropriate and effective matching and on-going monitoring of mentor/mentee pairings.
- Maintains excellent, effective and regular communications with all program participants.
- Travel (up to 35%) throughout Alameda County including evenings and weekends
- Other duties as assigned
Education and/or Experience:
- College graduate or currently in pursuit of post-secondary education.
- ble to be an effective peer and role model to physically disabled transition age youth through direct experience.
Qualifications:
Required: Excellent interpersonal and administrative skills. Excellent at assessing and monitoring quality of interaction between pairs of individuals in mentor/mentee relationship. Excellent digital technology skills, including MS Office and social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, et al). Strong decision making skills and adept at problem solving and relationship building. Must work well under pressure. Creative and detail oriented. Must have an appreciation for and ability to relate well to people from diverse backgrounds and of all ages. Independent, self-directed and self-disciplined.
Preferred: Counseling/Case Management experience, Motivational Interviewing knowledge, Group Facilitation and tangible social media development experience.
Work Environment
This work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
As part of the employment process at the Center for Independent Living, we will request that you complete financial disclosure forms. This information is required to be gathered from all new employees to comply with certain New Market Tax Credit program requirements, under which program the Center for Independent Living has benefited. All information submitted will be kept strictly confidential
CIL Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Persons with disabilities, veterans, women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Application Procedures:
Announcement may close at any time.
Please type the position name in the subject line of an email to hr@cilberkeley.org and attach a completed CIL Application form and EEOC survey
Fax, (510) 841-6168; Mail, CIL, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA 94703. Resume and cover letter may be submitted but may not be substituted for an official CIL application.
Reply as soon as possible. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
The Center for Independent Living provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Personnel Administrator at (510) 841-4776 X3150 or email hr@cilberkeley.org. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by case basis.
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