Experiential Learning at Loyola

Exciting Opportunity in the Center for Experiential Learning – Loyola University Chicago

 

Assistant Director, Academic Internships, Community-based Learning

Working with a team in Loyola’s Center for Experiential Learning and reporting to the Director of Experiential Learning, the Assistant Director, Academic Internships position is an essential part of the community-based learning team connecting high-impact learning practices through curriculum development. Working closely with faculty, community partners, and students, the responsibilities are highlighted below connecting academic internships to service-learning, undergraduate research, and learning portfolios in Loyola’s Center for Experiential Learning. Please share with interested parties broadly.

 

Major Responsibilities:

 

- Administers all aspects of the undergraduate academic internship program including, developing internship placements, cultivating and maintaining relationships with department faculty/staff internship coordinators, communicating regularly with key constituents to collaborate and communicate internship policies and procedures college-wide. 
- Advocates for enhancing experiential learning courses

- Develops strong educational/curricular infrastructure for academic internships working with faculty instructors

- Develops consistency of experience for undergraduate students in academic internships across university

-Cultivates relationships with community partners, developing supervisors as co-educators to develop on-going internship opportunities for Loyola students across all disciplines. 
- Empower key civic, community, cultural, and business organizations to advance academic internship opportunities to be educational for students. 
- Facilitates students navigation of on-campus resources to identify academic internship courses

-Partners with campus resources (e.g., career development centers) to guide students into programs and resources to support learning and exploration
- Presents on academic internship in classes and other programs to prepare students pursuing internships for academic credit. 
- Teaches UNIV 390 Internship Seminar course each semester to provide students with an academic internship course focused on civic professionalism that meets the Engaged Learning University Requirement. 

- Provide one-on-one consultations with faculty  on curriculum development, partner relationships, conflict management, etc.

-Support faculty development of administrative tasks in order to also develop partners as co-educators, make connections to course

-Develop curriculum in academic internship courses to achieve deeper learning, connecting academic and experiential knowledge

-Curating resources across the community-based learning, service-learning, work-based learning literature to inform pedagogical approach

- Coordinate a community of practice amongst internship faculty to support across disciplines

- Maintains university-wide internship and fieldwork program records and databases and produce reports on internships, including student placements and employer partnerships.
- Coordinates and tracks students in internship and fieldwork placements; monitors data and facilitate data input into the centralized database (Peoplesoft) for internship placement and fieldwork placement information. 

- Establishes assessment and evaluation tools for the internship program including feedback forms for employers. 

- Utilize data to inform program developments, e.g., partner capacity development, administrative supports needed, etc.

- Ensures best practices for academic internships with an emphasis on high-quality internships as goal
- Conducts site visits of internship sites, in collaboration with community-based learning team. 
- Connects academic internship programs with other experiential learning programs, including service-learning, learning portfolios and undergraduate research.

- Facilitates leadership in the community-based learning team, fostering partners as co-educators 
- Facilitates web-based tools and resources to enhance the academic internship program. 
- Performs other duties as required.

 

Position Requirements:

- Master's degree in Higher Education, Curriculum Development, or related field preferred. 
- At least 3-5 years of experience working with internships, community-based learning and/or experiential learning is necessary.  

 

Application Process:

If interested, only apply online; please do not send information via email. The quick link for applicants to apply is:  http://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/6047