Job Title: Outreach Intern
Reports To: Outreach Librarian
Department: Community Outreach
Location: Webster House Administration Center
FLSA Status: Non-exempt, Part-time 15 – 20 hours per week,
Job Classification: Internship: Beginning June 13, ending between August 1 - 15
Benefits Eligibility: Hourly Benefits Summary
Hiring Range: $23.13 - $26.00 per hour
Revision Date: 04-2022
Summary: Develops a comprehensive list of local organizations and housing options that provide services and resources to older adults and/or people living with disabilities. Identifies key organizations and conducts a needs analysis to determine gaps and needs and how the Library District can help.
Outcomes: The intern will have the opportunity to learn how to conduct a needs analysis and gather the results in order to write a report (or practice and improve their skills if they are already familiar with needs analysis and reports). They will also be presented with networking opportunities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
· Creates a welcoming environment that fosters equity, diversity and inclusion by seeking to understand, respect and value individual differences.
· Identifies organizations and housing options that provide services and resources to older adults and/or people living with disabilities.
· Conducts needs analysis to determine gaps and needs and how the Library District can help.
· Studies and evaluates demographic and other data in order to understand needs and develop optimal services for diverse populations in the community (focus on older adults and individuals with physical, emotional and mental disabilities or challenges).
· Schedules and leads meetings at various locations in the community, online, or inside the library to address our target population’s needs.
· Creates a comprehensive report of findings and recommendations.
· Advocates for eliminating barriers to library service for adults based on socioeconomic circumstances, culture, privilege, language, gender, ability and other diversities and for overcoming systems of discrimination, exclusion and ethnocentrism.
· Communicates and collaborates in partnership with other organizations serving unserved and underserved individuals and groups in the community.
· Other duties as assigned.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
· Demonstrates professional knowledge of characteristics and needs of diverse populations and underserved community groups.
· Develops an understanding of the effects of racism, ethnocentrism, classism, heterosexism, genderism, ableism, and other systems of discrimination and exclusion within the profession, and of techniques for disrupting them and promoting cultural competence.
· Demonstrated skill working with diverse populations.
· Possesses an understanding of his/her own personal and cultural values, beliefs, and sociocultural identities, including racial, class, and gender identities as a first step in appreciating the importance of culturally diverse identities in the workplace and wider community.
· Ability to establish and build community connections and partnerships.
· Evidence of analytical, organizational, communication, project, and time management skills.
· Demonstrated ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and complete tasks and projects on time and within budget and in accordance with task/project parameters.
· Working knowledge of standard computer office applications such as Zoom, Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint or other productivity software.
· Willingness to travel regularly within the District.
· Knowledge of library services and materials.
· Excellent communication skills and sensitivity to the particular needs of the public.
Education/Experience:
This position is intended for undergraduate and graduate college students with a degree or coursework in Social Work, Human Development, Occupational Therapy, Prevention and Intervention Sciences, or related field.
Language Abilities:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, the community and/or employees of an organization.
Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Spanish or any other second language is preferred.
Reasoning Abilities:
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Certificates and Licenses:
Valid driver’s license.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment:
The work environment is varied. Position involves frequent, short distance travel (mileage reimbursement provided), and performing work outside of library facilities in various District communities and varied venues. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the intern is regularly required to sit; stand; walk reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; talk and hear. The intern is frequently required to use hands to handle or feel. The intern is occasionally required to climb and balance. The intern must regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Hourly Benefits Summary
This is a temporary position beginning June 13, 2022 and ending between August 1 - 15, 2022.
Located in northern Colorado, Fort Collins is home to Colorado State University and an outstanding public school system.
Nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Fort Collins offers exciting recreational opportunities, unique cultural offerings, and is a regional center for employment and shopping.
Throughout the year, live music and entertainment, as well as great local dining, can be found throughout the historic downtown area. Fort Collins offers the convenience of a small town with all the amenities of a larger city.
If you are seeking the Colorado lifestyle and a community in which you can reinvent and reinvigorate yourself then Fort Collins is your city.
For more information, please visit the City of Fort Collins website: http://www.fcgov.com/visitor/
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