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September 04, 2009
Refugee Development Center, Lansing
Deadline: September 14, 2009
The RDC is seeking a Parent Education Specialist who is dynamic enough to respond to a wide variety of challenges that need to be addressed to ensure that refugee parents are well acclimated to the American school system and have access to on-going cultural resources.
Job Duties: Provide parent orientations to Refugee Parents with school-age children, conduct and lead weekly parent groups, provide cultural adjustment training to teachers and staff, act as a cultural resource for teachers and staff, deliver quarterly cultural awareness presentations to schools, develop a written resource guide for students and their parents, refer clients to ESL classes, collaborate with the Youth Education Specialist regularly, and keep accurate and up-to-date records.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in education, social work, family studies or related field.
- Understands class and cultural backgrounds of families and how to interpret culture of school to them.
- Communicates successfully with linguistically and culturally diverse families, as well as with teachers and administrators.
- Shows organizational skills.
- Writes and speaks clearly and well.
- Proficiency in a refugee language preferred.
- Salary/Hours: This is a grant-based full time position paying $28,500 yearly and requiring 40 hours per week. The position starts October 1, 2009.
If interested: please submit a cover letter, resume and contact information for 3 references to Erika Brown Binion at:
ebb.refugeedevelopmentcenter@yahoo.com
Applicants are also asked to mail a hard copy of their materials to Erika Brown Binion at:
The RDC, 122 S. Pennsylvania Ave. Lansing , MI 48912
Deadline to apply: September 14th (must be received in mail by this date—not postmarked)
Shirin Kambin Timms
Executive Director, Refugee Development Center
122 South Pennsylvania Ave
Lansing, MI 48912
Phone: (517) 482-2252
FAX: (517) 482-4719
Email: skt.refugeedevelopmentcenter@yahoo.com
Web Site: www.refugeedevelopmentcenter.com
Posted by uunguyen at September 4, 2009 09:11 AM