- Where
- Northfield, Minnesota, United States
- Level
- Mid
Note: This is a full-time RPC AmeriCorps position with RiseUp Partnership
About the Rural Partners Corps:
The Rural Partners Corps (RPC) is a new AmeriCorps service fellowship from Lead For America (LFA) that places locally rooted fellows with rural, place-based backbone organizations. Fellows already live in or near the communities they serve. They bring local knowledge, transferable skills, relationships, and a commitment to making their communities stronger. RPC Fellows will serve 40 hours per week from December through August, working alongside Host Site staff and community partners to build organizational and community capacity and advance cradle-to-career economic mobility for rural young people.
About RiseUp Partnership & the Southeast Minnesota Cradle to Career Regional Partnership
RiseUp Partnership is on a mission to ensure Goodhue County offers abundant opportunities for all young people to unleash their potential. We serve youth and families through caring, responsive programming, and we foster shared action among partners committed to supporting youth.
The Southeast Minnesota Cradle to Career Regional Partnership would bring together local cradle-to-career partnerships and aligned organizations to strengthen outcomes for children, youth, and families through shared learning, aligned action, and collective voice. Austin Aspires (Austin, MN), Cradle 2 Career (Rochester, MN, Healthy Community Initiative(Northfield/ Faribault, MN), RiseUp Partnership (Red Wing, MN)
Position Overview
The RPC fellow will support regional efforts to build and strengthen the infrastructure for the Southern Minnesota C2C Learning & Improvement Network across the broader region. Working under the guidance and direction of program staff, the Member will assist with regional partner meetings, tracking collaborative work plans, and mapping the regional asset landscape to identify shared challenges and strategic alignment opportunities. Key responsibilities include compiling publicly available data and supporting repeatable processes for updating it; documenting educational and workforce best practices into a regional framework; and supporting staff-led engagement with cross-sector partners, including postsecondary institutions, employers, foundations, and public agencies. Additionally, the Member will assist staff with gathering youth and family voices to inform regional priorities, researching funding opportunities and organizing information to support staff-led sustainability planning, and producing communications—such as briefs, dashboards, and success stories—that showcase the collective reach and progress of Cradle-to-Career initiatives throughout Southeast Minnesota.
Key Responsibilities
The RPC fellow will:
Coordination: Organize meetings of the C2C organizations and partners in the Member’s assigned geography, maintain shared work plans, document decisions, follow up on action items, and provide coordination support to help partners maintain progress on collaborative projects between meetings. Meeting priorities, partner commitments, and project direction remain the responsibility of program staff and participating organizations.
Landscape Mapping: Inventory programs, resources, employers, postsecondary partners, workforce organizations, and other assets across the communities they serve. Identify where communities have similar challenges, where services differ, and where collaboration may be beneficial; compile findings for staff and partner review.
Data and Shared Measurement: Compile publicly available data for their geography and assist staff with developing repeatable processes for updating it. Organize and summarize data for staff and network partners; do not independently establish regional performance measures or make policy or funding decisions.
Best-Practice Documentation: Interview staff and partners across the communities they serve to identify what is working in areas such as high school graduation, postsecondary planning,…