Netter UACS Site Director

Posted by University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships on August 10, 2021

The Netter Center’s university-assisted community schools (UACS) Site Director will serve as the connector between the school site and the University. Specifically, the UACS Site Director will supervise school day program partnerships and activities and will supervise the out-of-school time (OST) / afterschool enrichment program.

Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is the University’s primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. It brings together the resources and assets of both the University and the wider community to help solve universal problems such as poverty, health inequities, environmental sustainability, and inadequate, unequal education as they are manifested in the University’s local geographic area of West Philadelphia and Philadelphia at large. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and West Philadelphia that advance research, teaching, learning, practice, and service and improve the quality of life on campus and in the community. The Netter Center works with and serves as a model for other higher education institutions across the United States and around the world.

The Netter Center’s UACS is a strategy to educate, engage, empower, and serve all members of the community in which the school is located and engage students (K-16+) in real world, community problem solving.  UACS collaborates with partners to advance teaching, research, learning and service, as well as the civic development of their students.

The UACS Site Director will serve as the connector between the school site and the University.  Specifically, the UACS Site Director will supervise school day program partnerships and activities and will supervise the out-of-school time (OST)/afterschool enrichment program. The UACS OST/afterschool programs offer academic, cultural and recreational programming to students Monday through Friday from 3-6pm and from 8am –4pm for 6 weeks each summer.

Major components of the position include planning, organizing and supervising the program’s PT staff and university student workers and volunteers and supporting their delivery of effective instruction and programming. This position will also implement direct service related to program implementation.  This position will implement all required program reporting and compliance, including that of funders and the Netter Center. This position works as part of a team with other Netter Center staff and school partners and will work closely with ABCS courses and facilitate connections to faculty partners. This position works closely with the Director of Teaching and Learning to ensure programming addresses the academic needs of students and also supervises undergraduate fellows, work-study and volunteer Penn students. The position is supervised by the UACS Executive Director.

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