Position Title: Community Development Programming Coordinator | Host Site: Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP), Marquette, MI |
Position Type: Full time, 1700 hrs, 38-40 hrs week | Site Supervisor: Ashley Szczepanski |
Dates of Service: September 9, 2024 – August 15, 2025 | Stipend: $26,000 |
CEDAM’s AmeriCorps Information: CEDAM’s AmeriCorps program connects local and statewide agencies to meet neighbors’ critical needs. Members create community, build capacity and serve neighbors across Michigan. Our AmeriCorps program advances equity for Michiganders in two key ways 1. Cultivating the next generation of leaders in the community economic development field and 2. Supporting economic inclusion for Michiganders.
Organizational Information: The Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP) is Marquette County’s full-service local economic development team. The LSCP provides a wide range of services and programs ranging from support for small businesses and local communities to leadership training, networking opportunities, and special programming to address critical barriers to additional economic development including housing, childcare, air service, and more.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Participate in CEDAM AmeriCorps monthly meetings, trainings, events, data collection, reporting and additional items as needed.
- Participate in AmeriCorps & Michigan’s AmeriCorps events and trainings.
- Operate, market, and grow the Childcare SPARK program, an award-winning, innovative first-of-its-kind business incubator which supports the creation of high-quality, in-home childcare businesses throughout Marquette County.
- Add capacity to the LSCP’s ability to implement the Strategic Framework for Housing which seeks to add more housing, in particular workforce housing, throughout Marquette County.
- Expand capacity for meeting the LSCP’s community development goals, in particular supporting design and implementation of a local government economic development summit and working directly with communities to pursue small grant opportunities their capacity otherwise wouldn’t allow them to pursue.
- Undergo regular professional development and mentorship
- Conduct research as needed to achieve the projects above
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience, knowledge, or interest in grant writing
- Experience, knowledge, or interest in childcare, economic development, and housing issues
Minimum Qualifications:
- Be at least 18 years of age. Applicants must have a HS diploma, GED or working toward the completion of one.
- U.S. citizen, U.S. national or lawful permanent resident of the U.S.
- Pass the following National Service Criminal History Checks: State of Michigan background check, State of residency (if not Michigan), FBI Fingerprinting, and State & National Sex Offender Registry
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality
Compensation:
Members will receive a living allowance of $26,000 distributed in even increments, bi-weekly. Members will receive student loan forbearance for qualified loans, health care package, childcare assistance upon eligibility, and continual professional development. Upon successful completion of service an education award in the amount of $7,395 will be issued. Members will serve 1,700 hours for the term = 40 hours/week. CEDAM’s AmeriCorps Program is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations will be made for interview/service as needed. All interested candidates must be available to spend 40 hours in training the week of September 9.