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FT Temporary Cultural Orientation Coordinator until September 2024-Frederick and Arbutus

Lutheran Social Services Of The Nat • Full-time • Frederick, Maryland • 8m ago

Job Details

Management

Frederick, MD - Frederick, MD

Full Time

4 Year Degree

$27.00 - $28.00 Hourly

10 - 20%

Regular

Nonprofit - Social Services

Description

Job Description

The Cultural Orientation Coordinator (COC) develops, manages, and evaluates cultural orientation training in Maryland or Virginia. S/he provides Cultural Orientation (in-class and virtual) to clients and monitors progress and compliance with the Bureau of Population, Migration, and Refugees and LSSNCA’s standards. S/he ensures clients' training and programmatic support results in provision of timely and effective cultural orientation services to refugees to ensure understanding of services and to foster self-sufficiency and community integration, social engagement practices, and long-term integration. S/he works to increase the scale of cultural orientation (CO) participants/classes and effectiveness of instruction for refugees.

Essential Functions

Maintain current knowledge of the U.S. Resettlement Program.
Maintain current knowledge of all Refugee and Immigrant Services programs.
Assess and evaluate current CO materials.
Develop a CO needs assessment to analyze methodology, resources, capacity, and client understanding.

Determine CO trends through information and data collection.
Develop a formal CO curriculum and lesson plans incorporating the Center for Applied Linguistics curriculum and materials with locally developed materials.
Develop CO instruction and facilitate training materials.
Develop tools and formal processes for evaluating the instructional process and effectiveness of CO provision and overall curriculum.
Work with Quality Assurance Coordinators and Case Management team to understand and assist in strengthening current CO trainings.
Lead translations of instructional materials for CO clients.
Work with Community Engagement Coordinators to support the identification and recruitment of community volunteer presenters for curriculum topics that enhance community support for resettlement services as well as provide long-term connections for clients.
Recruit, assist in training, and coordinate diverse community volunteers to serve as CO speakers, classroom assistants, translators, instructors, and tutors.
Other duties as assigned by supervisor.