City of College Place, Washington
Please apply via email with your resume and cover letter.
Email application material to: mrizzitiello@cpwa.us
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis until Sept. 9th
Community Fellows—students in their Junior or Senior Year—must be ELIGIBLE to work in the U.S. and ABLE to work the ENTIRE 2018-19 ACADEMIC YEAR, September-May (except for College breaks).
This position is part of 2018-19 Whitman College Community Fellow Program. Students will receive an Educational Award from Whitman College. More information about the program here!
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Name of Organization: City of College Place, Washington
Title of Fellow: Recreation & Events Fellow
Proposed Hours of Work per Week/Days of Week: 10 hours a week. Monday – 8 AM to 12 PM. Wednesday – 8 AM to 2 PM; total of 160 hours at organization plus 20 hours in weekly meetings at Whitman College for academic year.
Supervisor’s Name and Contact Info (email and phone): Mr. Mike Rizzitiello – City Administrator: mrizzitiello@cpwa.us (509)-394-8506
Mission of organization: Our mission is to provide leadership and effective, fiscally responsible services that achieve our community’s vision.
Project Description: The Fellow will work on researching best practices regarding youth and general recreation programs for cities of approximately our size (10,000 population) and help us develop a work plan. Likewise, the Fellow will help us to also develop a strategy for growing our community events.
Skills Required:
- Excellent written, oral, and communication/presentation skills
- Organization skills for multi-faceted project
- Research skills to investigate available resources
- Sense of inquiry
- Friendly personality, comfortable meeting with community members.
Skills Gained:
- Conduct research, analyze the findings, point out trends, commonalities, strengths & weaknesses
- Learn how to write up a proposed plan with deadlines and budgets
- Develop a work plan for recreation and community events programming in the City.
- Improve communication skills
- Improve leadership skills
- Improve presentation skills
Responsibilities:
- Research other youth and general recreation programs in communities approximately the size of College Place to see what others have done and what works
- Summarize your research findings, point out trends, strengths & weaknesses
- Get familiar with our local recreation and events stakeholders so you can write up a list of recommendations.
- Work with the staff to develop a plan, timeline, budget, and informational materials.
- Work with staff to create needed web pages, content, graphics, marketing materials, social media posts, and outreach
Expectations:
- Students must be eligible to work in the U.S. (e.g. U.S. citizen or green card holder), must be available for the entire 2018-19 academic year, must be available on 9/21 from 4-5 p.m. and must be able to attend 20 meetings (20 hours/bi-weekly meetings) focused on professional development hosted by Whitman College (facilitated by Victoria Wolff, Assistant Director for Internship Programs, SEC).
- Professionalism – be well behaved, friendly and courteous, dress appropriately
- Ability to speak and write reasonably well
- Reliability – must be able to get to places on time, meet deadlines, and manage commitments consistently
- Creativity – be involved in developing the plan for the project