DEADLINE EXTENDED!! JOB OPPORTUNITY! QPIRG-McGill is Hiring a Community University Research Exchange Program Coordinator!

Committed to social justice? Need a job?

 

QPIRG-McGill is now hiring a Community University Research Exchange (McGill) Program Coordinator. In order to qualify you MUST be approved by McGill as a work-study student.

 

******APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, August 26 at 5PM*****

Community University Research Exchange (McGill) Program Coordinator

The Community-University Research Exchange (CURE) is a database by which students can integrate their academic research with the work of local movements and activist organizations. Through the administrative infrastructures already in place at McGill and Concordia University, students may complete a CURE research project as an independent study course, internship, or thesis advised by a departmental professor, or as a term project for an upper-level class. By connecting students to nonprofit community groups with limited resources, we hope to encourage and support academic research that is socially relevant.

Responsibilities:

 

To co-ordinate the overall activities of the QPIRG-McGill’s portion of the CURE Program:

 

Outreach to students (McGill)

 

• Class presentations;

• Table on- and off-campus events;

• Get the project link onto appropriate university websites, etc.;

• Provide support to students to use the project proposals to both meet the needs of the community groups and to meet their class requirements.

 

Outreach to university administration and faculty

 

• Research methods classes;

• Department administration and faculty;

• Classes with specific community focus;

• Find classes in all faculties.

 

Maintain and update projects

 

• Make sure website is updated with new project proposals;

• Put completed projects on the website;

• Outreach to Community and Activist groups to solicit projects.

 

Coordination with QPIRGs

 

• Communicate with staff and board of both PIRGS about how the project is developing;

• Work collaboratively with staff and board of both PIRGS to set short and long-term goals for the project;

• Work in tandem with QPIRG Concordia project coordinator if there is one.

 

Applicants Should Have:

 

• Strong organizational skills;

• Excellent interpersonal skills;

• Knowledge of social justice issues;

• Good research and data management skills;

• Creative problem-solving skills;

• Ability to take initiative and work independently;

• Ability to work independently and with group.

 

Assets for are the positions are:

 

• Knowledge of campus environment, including campus organizations and departments;

• Skills in poster/flyer design and printing;

• Knowledge of local social justice milieu;

• Written and spoken French.

 

**QPIRG-McGill will provide training for this position. We encourage anyone who is excited to learn new skills and who is interested in research and social justice to apply.

 

 

Details:  $10-15/ hr., 15-20 hours/ wk (Fall and Winter semesters)

 

 

Start Date: Monday, September 6th, 2011

 

 

QPIRG recognizes and welcomes the unique contributions that individuals from diverse communities bring to our organization, and invites individuals from these communities to apply. We encourage participants to describe the unique contributions they, as individuals with diverse experiences, would bring to the QPIRG-McGill organization, in their cover letter or resume

 

Please submit your cover letter and resume before the APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, August 26 at 5PM. Submissions can be made via email, or can be dropped off at our office from Monday to Friday 11-5pm. If submitted via email, please write “Attn: Hiring Committee - CURE” on the subject line.

 

QPIRG-McGill

 3647 University Street – 3rd floor

Montreal, QC

H3A 2B3

 

For more info, please contact the QPIRG coordinators or the CURE program coordinator hiring committee at 398-7432. For more information on QPIRG visit our website and for more information of CURE visit

 

 

For more info about the work-study program, please visit http://www.mcgill.ca/studentaid/workstudy/students