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2024-2025 CommonGround Graduate Intern Position Description Program: CommonGround, The Program on Intergroup Relations Position: CommonGround Graduate Intern Compensation: $20/hour Hours: Will vary by week, approximately 15-20 hours per week Time Frame: January 2025 - April 2026 Contact Person: Meaghan Wheat Email Address: wheatmeg@umich.edu Work Location: Program on Intergroup Relations 1214 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor Phone Number: 248-719-4788 Program Summary The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) is a social justice education program that blends theory and experiential learning to facilitate students’ learning around social group identity, social inequality, and intergroup relations. CommonGround, a student-run program within IGR, provides workshops for groups of UM students (student organizations, courses, etc.) by request. The workshops aim to raise awareness about social identities, power, privilege, and oppression. CommonGround prepares undergraduate and graduate students to create and facilitate these interactive workshops. The Programming Team is the group of undergraduate student staff and graduate interns that manages program operations and supports the selection, training, and coaching of the student volunteers in CommonGround. Being a member of the Programming Team is an opportunity to work collaboratively with other student leaders who are passionate about social justice education. IGR is hiring Graduate Intern(s) for the CommonGround program. Core Responsibilities The CommonGround Interns are members of the CommonGround Programming Team, the group of undergraduate and graduate student staff that oversee the programmatic aspects of CommonGround. In addition to serving as members of the Programming Team, the Graduate Interns will also have the following responsibilities. Core Programming Team Responsibilities Support the mission of CommonGround as an active member of the Programming Team. Participate in weekly Programming Team (staff) meetings Co-facilitate workshops, weekly meetings, and training retreats. Assist with marketing, recruitment, and selection of new members.
Perform administrative tasks and other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor. Attend a weekly Graduate Intern meeting with the Program Manager Commit to a regular 15-20 hour/week work schedule, with some additional nights and weekends for meetings, events, and retreats.
Additional Internship Responsibilities – You will be responsible for one of the following categories of responsibility: Education and training: Coaching Workshop Facilitators. Training & supporting workshop facilitators – workshop facilitators are students who facilitate the requested social justice education workshops. Training and support can look like one-on-one coaching, providing feedback, weekly meetings, group meetings, and other events. Lead the coordination of bi-weekly meetings and collaborate with other PT members on executing biweekly meetings Communicate on how to best coach workshop facilitators. Identify specific areas of collaboration between WFs to further group dynamics and group learning. Handle concerns or questions related to workshops, bi-weekly meetings, and group dynamics. Assist in the planning and implementation of the semester CommonGround weekend training retreat both fall and winter semester. Lead mandatory biweekly meetings (with the rest of PT) for workshop facilitators and curriculum specialists to promote relational and professional development.
Recruitment and retention: Lead IGR and CommonGround hiring processes. Lead CommonGround’s marketing and recruitment initiative. Participate in strategic planning and organizing for recruitment cycles Take on ad-hoc projects as necessary Consult with the IGR Student Engagement Team for student event planning and promotion Serve on the IGR Friends (IGR’s Student Recruitment Team) In collaboration with the education & training graduate intern, develop and/or implement strategies for the retention of CommonGround workshop facilitators. Build relationships with campus partners, like the Center for Campus Involvement and the Multi-Ethnic Student Association, and student organizations to recruit organizations to request workshops when it is the proper resource for them.
Assessment, evaluation, and curriculum development: Supervise the Program Assistant. Work collaboratively with the program assistant to lead evaluation design & oversight to ensure program evaluation captures workshop facilitators’ growth throughout the semester Work together to create, implement and assess evaluations. Collaborate with Program Assistant to lead the curriculum evaluator team Attend planning and/or debrief meetings for workshops in order to: Track the development, learning, and growth of WFs Provide feedback on facilitation style in one-on-one meetings Affirm and acknowledge WF’s progress, growth, and milestones
Maintain CommonGround databases Hole responsibility for the assessment/evaluation portion of the program. This includes evaluating workshops and disseminating the findings at debrief meetings, one-to-one coaching meetings, and biweekly meetings. Curriculum Development – creating, enhancing, and updating language of the activities, exercises, or other content to be used in workshops and training.
Logistics and workshop management: Supervise the Logistics Coordinator and two Program Coordinators Support the Logistics Coordinator in their management of program logistics, including the following: Uplift concerns heard/expressed by WFs to the Programming Team. Order food for retreats and other CG community events** Serve as the contact person for food delivery workers Save receipts and send them to the Program Manager List of catering options, organized by dietary restrictions
Order new supplies through M-Marketsite as PT needs. (For purchases that cannot be fulfilled by M-Marketsite, consult the Program Manager.) Consult with other members of PT to review the functionality of the CG Canvas page for F22-W23 school year Communicate with the CommonGround community via the CommonGround Digest Organize appreciation initiatives for CommonGround Facilitators. Monitor the CommonGround email for other messages Manage availability of everyone in CG through google calendar to schedule things
Workshop oversight & management – Ensuring individual workshops are being created effectively and coordinating the entire workshop schedule. Workshop Management support Reports directly to the Program Manager for supervision, and works in collaboration with the CommonGround Outreach Graduate Intern on maintenance of Digest and with the CommonGround Workshop Graduate Intern on workshop management responsibilities. Manage workshops by conducting intake meetings with requestors and workshop planning meetings with workshop facilitators. Input Sessions data for each of the workshops that we have
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