College Work Study - America Reads*America Serves

Campus
Queens

Student
Work Study

Job ID
S01969-555

Department
America Reads*America Serves

Work Schedule
Minimum of 8 hours per week
Depending on student's and site's schedules.  Many sites request afternoon hours.

Duties & Responsibilities
America Reads america Serves offer the community services that students from St. John's University can provide to enhance and facilitate everyday tasks.  We offer a variety of opportunities for our students in all different fields of service and expertise.

We accept all studentd with Federal Work Study who are looking to work for the entire year.  Our student workers are trained to understand the importance of the goals of the program and their role in achieving them to provide an ultimate sense of fulfillment, commitment, service, and professionalism.  We offer tutoring/mentoring to sites as well as specialized service opportunities that are specific to our workers' interests and fields of study.

Lead Educational Advisors (LEA) - (tutors) assist students in all grade levels in any subject specific to the student's needs.  They are also prepared to guide, encourage, and motivate students about their future career possibilities and academic struggles.  They can tutor/mentor in classrooms, local libraries, tutoring centers, boys/Girls Clubs, etc.  LEA's can target students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade and assist in any content area such as Mathematics, English, Science, Language, History, etc.  Several LEA's outside the classroom can serve as Homework Helpers and assist with projects in an after-school setting.

LEA's within the classroom setting serve as assistants to the teachers and work with the children either on an individual or small-group basis. LEA's can be a part of a general education classroom setting or volunteer their services in a special education setting. They may work closely with the classroom teacher to prepare and assist class activities, grade assignments, and complete any task provided by the teacher.

Community Service Initiatives (CSIs) - students who choose placements in a specialized field that complements their major/minor at the University.  This newly added feature opens a whole new genre to the program and gives students the freedom to pick and choose a field that will develop their skills needed to land their dream job. Sites vary as they are specific to the student.  Sites may include a non-profit organization, nursing home, etc.  SDI's are responsible for fully completing the tasks/duties that are assigned to them by their Site Supervisor depending on the site's expectations and regulations. They must follow protocol that is standard to the site in addition to AR*AS protocol.

Skills
Professionalism, punctuality and responsibility. 

Comments

Will begin working at the end of September/beginning of October and finish through until the end of the academic year (depending on FWS grant amount remaining).

Applications can be requested at stjaras@gmail.com

In addition to completing the online student worker application, interested candidates must submit their resume to Alexandra Foukalas at foukalaa@stjohns.edu

Students are also encouraged to stop by the America Reads*America Serves offices, located in Sullivan Hall, Room G-06.

Resumes submitted for this position will not be considered if the student does not have work study.  A work study grant for the academic school year is required for any resumes submitted for this position.