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Assistant Coordinator Program
The Assistant Coordinator Program for volunteers has been developed to meet the needs of DCAP and the growing need for education about HIV/AIDS on a world scope. It is structured to capitalize on the creative genius and skills of volunteers and interns while helping them develop new skills needed for successful careers in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Guiding principles and practices for these volunteer positions are based on research and field experiences conducted by American Humanics and leadership scholars, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. American Humanics (humanics.org) is a recognized leader in developing competencies for non-profit leadership. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership (leadershipchallenge.com), the result of research by Kouzes and Posner, is a recognized tool for leadership development.
Contact Heath Harding at dcapedu@sunflower.com or 785.843.0040 for more information.
Guiding Principles
The following documents will be used as guiding (not required) principles:
- Selected American Humanics’ competencies for non-profit careers.
- The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Position and Responsibilities
Education
- Coordinating education and outreach opportunities
- Facilitating educational presentations
- Staffing educational tables
- Creating educational material
- Determine how to target certain populations
- Coordinate after-school programs
- Other duties as needed
Volunteers
- Recognition process
- Recruitment
- Implementing orientation sessions
- Engaging volunteers and others
- Updating the Volunteer Manual
- Coordinating the Volunteer Banquet
- Other duties as needed
Communications
- Assist with the DCAP newsletter- quarterly
- Gather and send current HIV news updates – every two weeks
- Develop news releases as needed
- Maintain and develop the DCAP website
- Create campaigns for prevention and education
- Assist with educational materials
- Other duties as needed
Events
- Assist with the coordination of DCAP events
- Staff events
- Coordinate World AIDS Day
- Assist with the AIDS Walk
- Collaborate with other community events
- Other duties as needed
Condom Distribution
- Serve as a liaison with host sites
- Coordinate site adopters
- Design signage for sites
- Coordinate Downtown Outreach – at least one per quarter
- Develop campaign to increase condom/barrier usage
- Label condoms
- Other duties as needed
Let's Talk About It Program
- Design program to help parents discuss sexual health with their family members
- Facilitate workshops
- Recruit participants
- Act as a liaison with after school programs, public schools, health dept., and other related agencies
- Other duties as needed
Community HIV Awareness Committee
- Coordinate the Area Service Providers quarterly meeting
- Facilitate community committee to facilitate response to various awareness days/events.
- Liaison with community agencies: Centro Hispano, Haskell, KU St. Health, Health Dept., etc
- Other duties as needed
Research
- Update current medical info – new developments with HIV, treatments, etc.
- Find new statistics on infections rates
- Special Projects
- Other duties as needed
Grantwriting
- Search for Request for Proposals (RFPs)
- Develop projects that meet grant requests
- Create/organize supporting documents
- Write grant proposals
Time Commitment
- 2 hrs. per week minimum; day and times can be negotiated.
- At least 4 hrs. per month must be spent working in office to foster an understanding of DCAP.
Special Project
- You will develop a special project related to HIV/AIDS for each six-month period in the position. Topics will be chosen based on agency needs and the coordinator’s interest.
Application and Interview
- To apply for these positions, applicants must complete and submit:
- resume
- volunteer application forms:
(Word document)
- personal information
- confidentiality statement
- two reference forms
- Once applications have been received, interviews will be scheduled for selected applicants.
- Assistant coordinators must attend a regularly scheduled volunteer orientation.
Contact Heath Harding at dcapedu@sunflower.com or 785.843.0040 for more information.
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