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Salary– DOE

The Changemaker Collaborative at the UNH Sustainability Institute seeks a Program Coordinator to manage our student peer-to-peer (P2P) education programs. These programs include the Changemaker Fellowship (a 4-year, cohort model, peer mentorship program {including managing the Changemaker Coaches – peer mentors}), the Sustainability Advocates program (students living in Residence halls educating other hall residents, in partnership with Residential Life and Housing, and Sustainability Institute Interns (student employees who play a critical role in supporting the UNH Task Forces, Trash 2 Treasure, advancing the goals of the Sustainability Institute, and strengthening peer-to-peer outreach efforts). The Program Coordinator will also assist with the SITC @ UNH student fellowship (campus-wide semester-long internship program, in partnership with College for Social Innovation, with campus projects focusing on student peer-to-peer outreach).

The Peer 2 Peer Program Coordinator will develop program protocols and systems, communications, workshops, and promotional events; coordinate day-to-day administrative, fiscal, and operational activities of special programs, projects, and events; provide professional administrative support independently, in accordance with priorities, time and funding limitations, or other specifications; and serve as main contact and resource person in support of the assigned programs, under the general supervision of Director of the Changemaker Collaborative, and paired with content experts.

Sustainability, which we understand to mean a collective commitment to human dignity for all people and ecological integrity for all places, is a core value at UNH. Building and scaling up our sustainability peer-to-peer educational programs is essential to the goal of creating a community culture and broadly-shared ethos that embodies our sustainability values, and this position will play a critical role to that end. It will entail a blend of educational outreach (i.e., work to “train the trainers”), supervision/mentorship for students, program administration, and team membership and collaboration.

Additional Job Information

UNH is a federal contractor within the meaning of the Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors. This position may require that you be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the future, unless you apply for and receive a religious or medical exemption. You may not test out of this requirement.

Posting Number: PS3242FY22

Other minimum qualifications

  • An understanding of sustainability, as embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
  • A high degree of organization and attention to detail
  • The ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of audiences (i.e. students, faculty, professional staff and community partners)
  • Flexibility, patience, diplomacy and empathy
  • Demonstrated ability to think creatively, take initiative and problem-solve
  • Enthusiasm about working collaboratively to solve problems and make change within a complex institution

Additional Preferred Qualifications

  • 2-3 years’ experience in the following:
  • conducting peer-to-peer education, ideally in a higher education setting
  • community organizing, outreach and education, and/or marketing
  • leading teams and/or mentoring team members
  • Experience and comfort with presenting to groups
  • Experience and comfort with meeting facilitation
  • An interest in network support and development; an ability to “connect-the-dots” between related initiatives, and people working in different contexts toward similar goals

Salary Information

Salary is complemented by a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, retirement, tuition, and paid time off.

Institution Information

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

The UNH Diversity Resource Guide with information and programming available in the seacoast area, New Hampshire, and the region can be found here: https://www.unh.edu/hr/diversity-resource-guide

Closing Date: 06/03/2022

Duty/Responsibility

Recruit, train, mentor and/or coordinate student peer-to-peer (P2P) educators, working collaboratively with partners across campus:

  • Support efforts to recruit students to serve as Changemaker Fellows, Changemaker Coaches, Sustainability Interns, Sustainability Advocates, by creating and sharing materials about all of these programs as needed (e.g. electronically, in classrooms, at university events, etc).
  • Assist with Trash 2 Treasure coordination and programming
  • Advise, in collaboration with department representatives across the University, the SITC @ UNH Fellows, particularly on P2P efforts, including setting a curriculum and meetings
  • Support development and refinement of a P2P sustainability education training and mentorship framework for students in the above programs (i.e., suites of regular meetings and/or other activities through which they can learn and practice, in community, what sustainability means; what sustainability looks like at UNH, both in terms of successes and opportunities; and skills for effectively communicating and engaging with their peers)
  • Lead coordination of student P2P training/mentorship, by scheduling, planning and facilitating meetings and events for P2P education programs, based on the framework referenced above
  • Provide one-on-one support and mentorship for student P2P educators as needed
  • Collaborate and coordinate efforts with other departments across the Durham campus on sustainability education

Duty/Responsibility

Support development of systems and tools for coordinating and connecting the outreach efforts within and between the student and peer programs:

  • Coordinate content creation and curation for a shared “resource hub” that will be populated by, and serve all, participants in sustainability P2P programs. This will likely be a shared online platform, such as Trello.
  • Stay informed and up-to-date about current on-campus sustainability initiatives (i.e. work by the Sustainability, Energy and Ecosystem Task Forces, the Transportation Policy Committee, Committee on Investor Responsibility, etc); ensure that information about meetings and initiatives is captured and shared in the Resource Hub; and work to connect P2P efforts to those initiatives whenever possible
  • Help cultivate and manage partnerships across campus, related to sustainability peer-to-peer education (i.e., work with related student orgs, dietic interns, FIRE program, etc.)
  • Stay informed and up-to-date about key community sustainability initiatives (i.e., work by the Durham Energy Committee, Waysmeet, Seacoast Eat Local, etc), and work to connect P2P efforts to those initiatives whenever possible and relevant

Duty/Responsibility

Other Required Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Participate in regular SI staff meetings
  • Participate in planning and coordination efforts with other Changemaker Collaborative and SI staff, and with the Sustainability Task Force as needed
  • Provide timely data for UNHSI’s STARS reports and annual reports, for use in evaluating a program outcomes