- Pay
- $56–60k
- Where
- St. Leonards Complex
- Level
- Senior
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Posted Job Title
Senior Coordinator of University Assisted Community Schools Sports, Fitness, & Health, Netter Center for Community Partnerships
Job Profile Title
Coordinator B
Job Description Summary
The Senior Coordinator of UACS Sports, Fitness and Health will report to the UACS Executive Director and will coordinate and implement SFH programs, including Cross-Grade Sports (CGS), Penn-West Philadelphia Basketball League (PWBL), Young Quakers Community Athletics (YQCA), school day health and PE supports, school day and after school socialized recess support, and other school day, after school and summer initiatives. This position requires physical movement and play with K-12 and Penn students. A qualifying priority is the ability to engage and educate UACS K-12 and Penn students in athletic and academic settings. The UACS Sports program is implemented in partnership with Penn Athletics. This program offers unique leadership and partnership opportunities for students from K-16+, including Penn student-athletes, K-12 student-athletes, and high school students who lead sports and fitness activities for K-8 students(cross-grade activities). Members of Penn teams teach athletic skills, teamwork, and leadership skills while providing mentorship and academic support. Programs involve a combination of Penn student-athletes and coaches, Netter Center staff, UACS students and their parents/guardians, and UACS principals and teachers.
Job Description
Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is the University's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. It brings together the resources and assets of both the University and the wider community to help solve universal problems such as poverty, health inequities, environmental sustainability, and inadequate, unequal education as they are manifested in the University's local geographic area of West Philadelphia and Philadelphia at large. The Netter Center (Netter) develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and West Philadelphia that advance research, teaching, learning, practice, and service and improve 1 the quality of life on campus and in the community. Netter works with and serves as a model for other higher education institutions across the United States and around the world. The Netter Center’s university-assisted community schools (UACS) is a strategy to educate, engage, empower, and serve all members of the community in which the school is located and engage students (K-16+) in real…