Family Education and Womens Programming

Job Details

Description

About CCC :

Since 1923, Commonwealth Catholic Charities (CCC)has provided life-changing human services to vulnerable individuals and families throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

CCC offers quality and compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith. We are passionate about the work we do in our communities, providing 31 critical services at 11 locations throughout Virginia.

SUMMARY : This position is responsible for assisting either refugee or immigrant families with transitioning their children into the public school system.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Introduces, explains, and provides resources to new families utilizing public schools for the first time.
• Will provided educative workshops for parents of refugee students
• Initiates outreach to adults in the refugee or immigrant communities.
• Engage parents to become effective allies and advocates for their children's education
• Educates and promotes cross cultural understanding and integration into the community and school system.
• Provide diversity training for public-school teachers, administrators, and affiliates in the Greater Richmond area
• Facilitate and connect students to individualized tutoring, mentorship and academic counseling services
• Assists with the recruitment, training and monitoring of tutors for students in academic need
• Maintain accurate records and complete reports in a timely fashion.
• Represents the Agency in the community and workplace in a professional and ethical manner.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal, decision-making, problem-solving, oral, and written skills.
• Utilizes a basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications

EDUCATION and / or EXPERIENCE : High School Diploma or equivalent required with three years of related experience. Candidates who speak Dari, Pashto, Farsi (Persian), Hindi, Nepali, Swahili, Kirundi, Kinyarwandan, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, French, Ukrainian are strongly preferred.

Full-time Employee Benefits :

Retirement savings After one year of employment, the agency contributes 4% of your plan year earnings into a savings account for you and will match dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of salary if an employee makes contributions to the plan.

That’s an 8% annual contribution to your retirement savings!

PTO earn 16 days off for vacation, sick, or personal time in your first year. This goes up to 22 days in your second year and keeps climbing every five years.

Holidays Enjoy eleven paid holidays

Other paid leave at no cost to employees bereavement, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid parental leave

Virginia Credit Union memberships

Employee Assistance program Free services including five free confidential consultations with a mental health professional

Medical Insurance a choice of 4 PPO plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage. A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.

Dental Insurance a choice of two dental plans for employee, employee + spouse, employee + child(ren), or family coverage.

A portion of premiums subsidized by the agency.

Vision Insurance

Life insurance paid by agency with option to purchase additional coverage

Other insurance benefits flexible spending accounts including dependent care, health savings account (for qualified HDHP participants), legal resources