Position Title
CELS Academic and Community Advisor

Employee Type
Regular

Office/Department
Ctr Com Service and Justice

Work Environment
Loyola University Maryland Main Campus


Job Type
Full time
Benefits at Loyola
https://www.loyola.edu/department/hr/benefits/

Compensation Range
$51,277.00 - $64,096.00

Anticipated Start Date
08/19/2024

If Temporary or Visiting, Estimated End Date


Position Duties
Develops, implements, promotes, and provides logistical and administrative support for academic community engagement partnerships between Loyola faculty, academic departments, academic student groups, Academic Affairs, or other academic entities on the one hand, and community-based organizations or groups on the other. Supports place-based community engagement focused in Loyola's York Road/Govans neighborhoods through partnerships including program-based and project-based service-learning or course-based service components, as well as academic entities’ co-curricular service, community experiences, community speakers, research, and significant community initiatives, while providing opportunities for students to encounter God, human community and our common home in the spirit of Integral Ecology.Implement, Support, and Maintain Academic Community Engagement programs, including service-learning, other course-based partnerships, or community-engaged scholarship, whether program-based, project-based, advocacy, or research (50%):
a. Consult with Loyola faculty, academic departments, academic student groups, Academic Affairs, or other academic entities.
b. Provide logistical support for service-learning courses and other academic-community engagement programs and projects Â
f. Serve as an institutional link to various community organizations; actively maintain relationships, and learn from community partners how their needs change over time.
g. Serve as an ex oficio member on the Committee on Engaged Scholarship, charged with selecting the Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, Kolvenbach Research Grant awardees, and selecting min-grants recipients. Â
h. Support faculty development for community engagement, including opportunities including the Faculty Fellows Seminar, with a focus on faculty development related to asset-based partnership with community-based organizations.
i. Share assessment tools with faculty and community partners that help faculty become accountable to community partner impact as well as student learning.
j. Administer the Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship mini-grants program, including keeping records of applications, approvals, budgets, and final grant reports

Develop new partnerships, pilot programs, and models for academic community engagement (25%):
a. Maintain updated knowledge of the range of existing partnerships at CCSJ and the University.
b. Maintain knowledge of the field of community engagement, especially where academics is concerned, in higher education.
c. Consult with academic constituents about their ideas for community engagement initiatives. Â Help develop their partnership skills and capacity.
d. Engage in networking and vetting conversations with community partners or potential partners interested in academic partnerships, supporting partners with resources to developing their capacity to work with Loyola academic entities.
e. Connect academic constituents with existing or new partnership opportunities and the resources of CCSJ.
f. Connect community partners to the academic and other resources of Loyola, including scholarly knowledge, assessment and research, writing, arts, and media.
g. Consult, advise, and support logistics of new partnerships and engagement projects.
h. Facilitate academic partner- community partner dialogues on values, shared goals, expectations, logistics, and assessment. Â
i. Work with CCSJ staff to identify and secure funding to assist mutually beneficial academic-community partnerships; work through collective impact strategies with multiple community partners to write and oversee development of grants and contracts.
j. Provide administrative backbone as needed for significant initiatives in academic community engagement.
k. Communicate plans, efforts, and work to Program Director, Center Director, Faculty Director and Associate Directors, to internal and external constituents to engage interest and resources, including funds, volunteers and campus awareness of initiatives.

Data collection and Promotion of Academic Community Engaged Learning and Scholarship (10%):
a. Assist in the collection, management, and presentation of all data related to service-learning courses and other academic engagement programs, including participant information, amount, and quality of involvement in service-learning, and outcomes for students and the community.
b. Communicate and collaborate within CCSJ and across the University regarding programs, initiatives, ensuring visibility of special programs during summer and fall orientations, accepted student days, and other admission events.
c. Promote current community-engaged learning and scholarship events and opportunities to faculty, including Kolvenbach Research Grants, mini-grants and other funding opportunities.

Support Student Intern Team Supervision and Development (10%): Â
a. Train and support undergraduate and graduate student interns in working with academic engagement programs, including service-learning, course-based one-time service, and service for academic organizations and groups.
b. Provide supervision, oversight and direction to 1-4 student interns and/or graduate assistants.
c. Participate in student intern selection, training and evaluation. Â
d. Meet bi-weekly with each assigned student intern to provide oversight and guidance regarding  partnerships, program administration, and job responsibilities. Conduct performance evaluations. Ensure that student interns incorporate Ignatian Pedagogy (context, experience, reflection, action, evaluation), experiential educational principles, community development theories, Catholic social teaching and social justice concepts into training and education of volunteers.  Provide regular feedback on student interns’ performance and partnership impacts. Participate in meetings of CCSJ staff that supervise student interns to review student intern progress, decide policies and coordinate programming. Participate in development of and assessment of student learning outcomes and program learning outcome
Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred in Theology, Philosophy, Education, Sociology
3 to 5 years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of and commitment to Jesuit Catholic tradition, principles and values. Experience with articulating Jesuit education as “faith that does justice�
• Experience with community-based service, service-learning, social justice education, and/or advocacy.
• Experience with community, non-profit organizations, schools, and/or with people who are marginalized.
• Familiarity with programs and components of successful programs designed for asset-based community development and social change.
• Written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with faculty or in adult education or development.
• Experience working with college students or young adults: training, mentoring, supervising and/or personal/professional or spiritual/faith development.
• Experience working with data collection
• Ability and desire to work with people from diverse religious, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as diverse professional frameworks, including students, faculty, grassroots organizers, community members, and nonprofit professionals.
• Desire and ability to work effectively within the framework of a Jesuit, Catholic, institution of higher education.
• Desire to work with faith-based community organizations, such as Catholic Charities, Jesuit apostolates of education, Cristo Rey High School, and Archdiocese social justice initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Time management and ability to juggle multiple priorities and coordinate multiple projects with and without strict deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office; ability and willingness to learn new software for websites, webinars, and presentations.
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships within and between university and community partners.
• Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends as required.
• Ability and willingness to travel, primarily in the Baltimore metro region and occasionally out of town.

Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Note: Experience and/or education may be substituted for requirements.


University Description
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.


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