Butler Koshland Fellow - Oakland

Job Title: Butler Koshland Fellow
Organization: Team-Up for Youth
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary:
FT Temporary

Job Description:
Mentorship: Youth Sports Campaign

The Butler Koshland Fellowship program is looking for an independent, intelligent, and highly-motivated person to serve as a fellow to Janet Carter, executive director of Team-Up for Youth.

The Butler Koshland Fellowship is a unique program designed to pass on leadership skills and legacy through personal mentorship. We match professionals of exceptional ability who have a passion for social justice with an ambitious younger person who is ready to not only absorb information, but is also driven to share it with others. All fellowships are for a period of one year and require that both the mentor and mentee be ready, willing, and able to grow and whole-heartedly learn from one another during this immersive process.

Beginning April 15, 2009, the fellow would work under the direction and guidance of Ms. Carter. Representative projects include:

Team-Up for Girls Campaign: The disparities of sports participation between boys and girls living in low income communities leaves disadvantaged girls with few opportunities to play and benefit from sports. Team-Up for Youth is therefore launching Team-Up for Girls – a campaign to get more girls enrolled in quality sports experiences. The initiative will engage parents, recruit female role models as coaches, educate lawmakers, partner with major league sports teams, and help after-school programs start programs for girls.

Public Policy: Team-Up for Youth is developing a local, state, and national policy agenda designed for young people in low-income neighborhoods to benefit from the positive outcomes that are associated with increased opportunities to participate in high quality sports programs. Issues of focus will include: establishing mechanisms of support for volunteer coaches to be a central component of the national service agenda of the new federal administration; creating gender equity in parks and recreation programs; increasing funding for after-school sports through existing after-school and health funding streams; and increasing the availability of safe, accessible, well-maintained facilities in low-income communities for organized youth sports program.

Coaching Corps Scale-Up: Team-Up for Youth’s Coaching Corps program recruits and trains college and university students to volunteer as coaches in after-school sports programs. This year the program will be expanding statewide, starting with the Los Angeles area in the fall.

Because the duties to be assigned are so varied, this position demands a fellow with an equally diverse set of skills and personality traits, including: intellectual agility, friendliness, curiosity, strong reading and writing abilities, acumen for complex research, sense of humor, and cultural sensitivity. Applicants also must be adept at organizing both their own work and the work of others, have practical experience in making things happen, and know when to be discrete. Candidates should be passionate about improving educational, health, and social outcomes for disadvantaged youth, and must have at least three years of experience in public policy, education, community organizing, or other related fields. A demonstrated interest in youth advocacy – via internship, educational background, past work experience, and the like – must be explicated in all applications.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume addressing your qualifications and interest in this fellowship. Please send all applications via email to bkfellow@gmail.com with the subject line “Team-Up for Youth Fellow” by March 31. Please do not make direct inquiries to Team-Up for Youth.

For more about Team-Up for Youth visit our website at www.teamupforyouth.org.

The fellowship will begin in April 2009. The fellow will be paid a salary of $35,000 for the year. A flex-time schedule of 40 hours per week, plus periodic travel is required.

The Butler Koshland Fellowship is open to all applicants. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply.







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Email replies to: bkfellow@gmail.com