We are excited to announce a new staffing structure and roles for the CCCE professional staff team. Our team is reorganized around the key relationships at the heart of the center’s work. We hope this structure will facilitate access to the center’s programs, foster collaboration, and allow our staff to focus on doing what we each do best. In addition to new roles for existing staff, we will be hiring for one permanent and two temporary positions to start in August. For more information, contact Sinda Nichols at snichols2@carleton.edu.
Sinda Nichols, Director
Sinda serves as the key contact for campus collaborators, new and strategic partners, and the CCCE professional staff. She is focused on supporting an engaged campus, fostering civic agency across the institution, and directing CCCE strategy, development, assessment, and impact.
Emily Oliver, Associate Director for Academic Civic Engagement & Scholarship
Emily serves as the center’s key contact for faculty. This position cultivates and supports academic civic engagement (ACE) courses and collaborates with faculty to support engaged scholarship, including promoting outlets for publishing and presenting. This position is responsible for leading collaborations with others on campus to create faculty development opportunities and resources that support high impact academic civic engagement courses that deepen student learning and address a range of complex social issues.
Erica Zweifel, Assistant Director for Community Impact
Erica is the CCCE’s key contact for community partners and is focused on the center’s social impact in the community. This position is responsible for community partnerships across a range of programs, academic and co-curricular, with a focus on addressing community-identified goals, co-creation with partners, and enhanced impact through coordinated efforts. This position leads the CCCE’s environmental and food systems work and liaises with sustainability campus partners. It also directs the CCCE’s contributions to social-impact events Lighten Up, Empty Bowls, and Into the Arb.
Student Experience Manager — open, estimated start date 8.1.20 (go to the Human Resources site to apply)
(interim staffing by temporary program assistant Michelle Perkowski and Sinda Nichols)
The Student Experience Manager will be the CCCE’s key contact for students. This position develops and leads student preparation, coaching, and reflection and is responsible for shaping students’ experiences across a range of programs with a focus on critical reflection and ethical engagement. Focal relationships include student fellows working in the CCCE, compensated break-time fellows and volunteer student program directors based at community sites, and community-based work study students, among others.
Melissa Thomas, CCCE Operations Coordinator
Melissa is the CCCE’s key contact for logistics questions and serves as
the liaison to operational campus collaborators. She supports the
implementation of the CCCE’s programs including student-led programs,
campus-wide events, break-time fellowships, and community-based work
study, among others. This position leads center communications and
tracks financial operations.
Academic Civic Engagement and Scholarship Coordinator (temporary) — open, estimated start date 8.15.20 (go to the Human Resources site to apply) (Soon to be posted)
(interim staffing by temporary program associate Abby Walker)
The ACES Coordinator supports the implementation of academic civic engagement and engaged scholarship program logistics and operations. This position is responsible for supporting a range of areas of work including course logistics, collaboration with Public Works, participatory action research and community-based scholarship, and faculty development pertaining to the above.
5th Year Education Associate (temporary) — open. Start date 8.15.20
The Education Associate supports the CCCE’s community-based work study program through providing near-peer coaching for community-based work study students, supporting their success, professional skill-building, and reflection on experience. This position also assists the CCCE director in researching and documenting campus-wide civic and community engagement. See the position description here. Those with community-based work study experience are encouraged to apply. Priority deadline to apply: 4.27.20. To apply, send a resume and letter of interest to Sinda Nichols at snichols2@carleton.edu.