Program Coordinator Tisch College

Overview

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life is a national leader in civic education, whose teaching, research, and community partnerships are setting the standard for higher education’s role in civic engagement. As the only university-wide college of its kind, Tisch engages Tufts students in transformational learning opportunities via hands-on field-based experiences, community building, and public service. These engagements prepare them to become active citizens and community leaders. Tisch research centers conduct groundbreaking research on young people’s civic and political participation and forge innovative participatory action research partnerships with communities.

Tisch College’s North Star—building robust, inclusive democracy for an increasingly multiracial society—seeks to cultivate knowledge, leaders and living experiments that expand possibilities for democratic development in the context of increasing risks to democracy worldwide. Our work supports the University’s efforts to become an anti-racist institution. Our programs and research centers focus on strengthening the political participation and voices of historically marginalized people, especially youth, and on addressing the challenges of building and reviving democratic institutions needed for multiracial/ethnic societies.

The Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) offers a degree pathway in three prisons in Massachusetts, the maximum-security Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, the medium-security MCI-Shirley, and the women’s prison, MCI-Framingham, with most programming run at MCI-Shirley. By taking Tufts University courses while in prison, students earn the associate degree in the liberal arts from Bunker Hill Community College and the bachelor’s degree in civic studies from Tufts. TUPIT also offers a robust, accredited college, reentry, and restorative justice certificate program at Tufts, MyTERN, for people home from prison.

What You'll Do

Under the supervision of the Executive Director and in partnership with the Education and Reentry Director, the Reentry Program Coordinator will play a pivotal role in providing advanced support and coordination of reentry programming for TUPIT's college students in prison and MyTERN's students recently home from prison. The Reentry Program Coordinator will have primary responsibility for the MyTERN Fellows program; employment and other community partnership cultivation and maintenance; reentry and pre-entry (in prison) advising and programming; co-instruction and media projects including the podcast, multiple administrative tasks; research assistance; grant locating and writing support; event support.

• Lead community partner cultivation and maintanence - employment, housing, reentry support, events, mentorship program
• Direct the MyTERN Fellows program, supporting peer mentorship and structured reentry programming
• Serve as primary TUPIT liaison for research and lead Research Assistant for all research for TUPIT
• Co-lead reentry programming and individual advising for MyTERN students on campus.
• Co-lead reentry/pre-entry programming and individual advising for TUPIT students still incarcerated.
• Assist instruction of MyTERN’s spring podcasting class and year-long reimagining reentry course
• Support the surfacing & writing of grants and support all development efforts, including on-going public speaking engagements
• Support TUPIT Senior Program Coordinator with administrative tasks, including semester materials preparation and delivery

What We're Looking For

Basic Requirements:
Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:

• Knowledge and skills typically acquired through the completion of a High School diploma
• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of related experience
• 0-3 years of related office experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of or experience in subject matter preferred. Some familiarity with AirTable.

Pay Range

Minimum $27.30, Midpoint $32.50, Maximum $37.70

Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.