Community Service / Opportunities Coordinator

Community Service / Opportunities Coordinator

Non-Exempt

Reports to Lexington High School/K-12 Coordinator of Counseling

Administrative Staff - 10 months - Class C with benefits according to the LEA Unit D collective bargaining agreement. August 31st, 2026 Start Date. 18 hours per week. $27.39 - $34.18 per hour.

Essential Functions

• Build community relationships and partnerships to enable 2,230 LHS students provide meaningful community service to the community
• Track and report on students' progress towards meeting graduation requirements; collectively this is 90,000 hours of community service
• Conduct ongoing and continuous review of student progress and goals with students
• Establish relationships within the community that contribute to the development of current and future programs that promote hard work, community service and cultural awareness amongst students
• Maintain the "job board" of local work opportunities for students; builds a growing list of internships, partnerships and work opportunities for students (financial, post-secondary, activities)
• Act as primary contact for business representatives seeking to offer employment or internships with students
• Maintain a summer opportunities database
• Maintain a list of enrichment opportunities available to students
• Write and disseminate an opportunities newsletter
• Maintain the resource library
• Assist in local scholarship process for students
• Coordinate and organize freshman seminar community service projects

Formalizing this position into an Opportunities Coordinator will more clearly catalog the responsibilities and provide further opportunity to increase student options for career exploration and experience through volunteer work, internships, partnerships and employment. The sustainability of many of these opportunities is dependent upon the successful community partnership established between LHS and the community.