Monday, February 13, 2017

UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE OPEN DOOR PROJECT

Upcoming Events


Feb
16
3:00 pm


THIRD THURSDAY PANEL PRESENTATION

From Stonewall to the Supreme Court


3703 Posvar Hall
In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled to guarantee same-sex couples the fundamental right to marry. While this landmark decision was a giant step forward in the fight for equal rights for LGBTQ Americans, there is still work to be done before members of the LGBTQ community are truly equal.
Join our interdisciplinary panel of experts to discuss the past achievements, current priorities, and future challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans and their allies.


Feb
20
4:00 pm


COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

"Free Speech and Dissent in Today's Political Climate"


University Club, Ballroom A
Megan Block
 and Mike Healy, attorneys representing the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will discuss the set of guarantees protected by the First Amendment and how free speech goes hand-in-hand with engaged citizenship.
Pamela W. Connelly, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Pittsburgh, will provide introductory remarks.



Mar
15
2:30 pm


COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

I'm Not Racist...Am I? Film Screening and Workshop


Film screening and Q & A, followed by an interactive workshop on cultural appropriation facilitated by the filmmakers.
University Club, Ballroom A
March 15, 2017
All events are free and open to the entire Pitt community.
The film is captioned and an ASL interpreter will be onsite for the Q & A and the workshop.
RSVP requested by March 8

Career Fair This Week

Spring 2017 Career Fair
Wednesday, Feb. 15, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math majors
Thursday, Feb. 16, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math majors
Friday, Feb. 17, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences majors
11 a.m.-3 p.m. daily in the William Pitt Union for Pitt students and alumni only. 

To view lists of employers by major areas, please click here:  http://www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu/cdpa/events/spring2017careerfair/

Please direct any career fair-related questions to  careers@pitt.edu.


More Fellowships and Jobs

Nahum Goldmann Fellowship sponsored by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.  http://ngfp.org/
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Citi Year Corps:

City Year, a national non-profit organization, is seeking to hire leaders from around the country to help keep students in school and on track to graduate.
As a City Year corps member, you would commit 11 months of service working side-by-side with fellow corps members to provide individual attention to students who can achieve even more with your help. By focusing their work in 3rd-9th grade, City Year provides a continuum of care so students who need help receive multiple, consecutive years of interventions and support. The upcoming application deadline is February 15th! Apply now to solidify your plans for next year by March 15th!


Contact Dawn Lastowka, Senior Regional Recruitment Manager at dlastowka@cityyear.org or 267.540.3296 for more info. 
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Program Coordinator – PULSE (Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience) – Pittsburgh, PA
PULSE (Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience) seeks a high-energy individual able to coordinate PULSE program and help develop a small-sized nonprofit organization as it grows. This position is a unique opportunity to play a vital role in a dynamic, vibrant non-profit with a track record of success, proven impact model, strong mission, staff and board.
PULSE cultivates a community of young servant leaders to transform Pittsburgh. PULSE invites talented university graduates to partner with Pittsburgh nonprofits for a year of service and leadership. Over the last twenty-two years, PULSE has invited about 250 young adults to partner with over 125 nonprofits, contributing some 400,000 hours of service to the city and its residents. To learn more about PULSE, visit us at www.pulsepittsburgh.org
Position Summary: The Program Coordinator reports to the Executive Director of PULSE and is responsible for the organization’s consistent, high-quality execution of its program, with specific attention to mobilizing PULSE fellows into action in the community.
The Program Coordinator coordinates all aspects of the PULSE program with participants, including creating activities that both develop the fellow and serve the community. In addition, the Program Coordinator will coordinate all aspects of its outreach to alumni.
Job Responsibilities
Below is an overview of responsibilities and duties for this position:
Program
1. Work with the other Program Coordinator in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the PULSE program.
2. Develop and implement a system to evaluate the skill, experience, personal and professional development needs of PULSE participants in the cohort.
3. Orient participants to the purposes, objectives, aims and expectations of the PULSE program.
4. Administer a personal and professional development program to address PULSE participant experience, skill gaps, knowledge, etc. through a wide variety of vehicles (weekly seminars, bi-annual retreats, one-on-one meetings, and other personal and professional development opportunities for cohort).
5. Provide counsel, mentoring, and evaluation for participants through occasional meetings.
6. Address participant questions, issues and challenges particularly related to house dynamics, maintenance and overall experience.
7. Establish consistent, objective program performance standards of accountability with other Program Coordinator.
8. Instill a sense of pride, organizational ownership, a sense of accountability among PULSE participants with one another as a cohort collectively pursues PULSE’s core purpose and lives out its core values.
Outreach
1. Create and implement an annual outreach plan with PULSE fellows in the cohort and
neighborhood.
2. Organize and participate in community outreach activities to educate the broader community
about PULSE, our activities and projects.
3. Establish and maintain personal and professional relationships with neighborhood nonprofit
partners, organizations, block groups and local residents.
4. Identify, evaluate and prioritize potential partnership opportunities and collaborate on a
coordinated neighborhood engagement with the PULSE fellows.
5. Develop coordinated neighborhood engagement in the neighborhood utilizing PULSE properties
for increased partnership and collaboration.
6. Facilitate additional PULSE projects and initiatives through PULSE fellows and community
members like the Kincaid St. Garden, Alley Bike Co-op, Little Free Library, and Stanton Patio.
Alumni
1. Identify, recruit, solicit alumni to be a part of an Alumni Council network that focuses on
developing deeper relationships between PULSE and alumni through volunteering, mentoring,
giving, events, activities, etc.
2. Manage the process by which alumni accomplishments are identified, tracked and recognized;
summarize the information about alumni and their outcomes in a consistent, accessible format.
3. Meet with alumni with the purpose of keeping them engaged with PULSE.
4. Assist with annual fund solicitations and young alumni reunion gatherings.
Position Requirements
 Bachelor’s degree
 2-5 years of experience in program development, project management, staff development,
community development
 Ability to inspire, train, manage and lead young adults
 Ability to communicate with a variety of constituent groups
 Ability to work independently
 Ability to multitask
 Negotiation and sales skills
 Willingness to leverage personal and professional networks
 Flexible schedule, including the ability to work some evenings and weekends and handle
emergencies
Required Qualifications
 Passion and commitment to the mission and values of PULSE
 Ability to promote the PULSE program effectively and build relationships
 Strong commitment to the organization’s success
 Detail oriented and strong organizational skills
 Self-motivated
 Good spokesperson and representative of the PULSE program
TO APPLY
Interested individuals should send cover letter and resume to jobs@pulsepittsburgh.org by February 27, 2017 at 5:00pm. PULSE is an equal opportunity employer

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Fellowship/Job Opportunities Roundup

Repair the World:    http://werepair.org/our-local-work/become-a-fellow/

Newberry Library, Chicago:  https://www.newberry.org/employment#nmmpf



Community Organizing/Social Justice:  Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice
A community organizer with The Direct Action & Research Training Center (DART) will be on campus Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30 pm in WPU 310 to discuss careers in community organizing with individuals interested in uniting congregations and working for social, economic and racial justice.
RSVP at www.thedartcenter.org/pitt
DART hires and trains organizers to build organizations that have successfully addressed issues including:
* Plugging the school-to-prison pipeline
* Reining in predatory lending practices
* Expanding access to primary health and dental care
* Prioritizing funding for affordable housing and job training
* Education reform in low-performing public schools
* Fighting for immigrants' rights


Full-time positions start August 14, 2017 in Richmond, VA, Louisville, KY, Topeka, KS, Daytona Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and St. Petersburg, FL.
Starting salary $34,000/year + benefits.
Although it may be helpful, no prior organizing experience is necessary. Fluent Spanish speakers are encouraged to apply.
To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you to visit www.thedartcenter.org. Still have questions? Contact Hannah Wittmer at hannah@thedartcenter.org or 202-841-0353.


Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Statement on President Trump's Executive Order on Refugees and Immigration

February 1, 2017

As past and present members of the faculty of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, we protest the executive order issued by President Trump denying entry into the United States for the next 90 days to citizens of seven Muslim countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

As scholars of Jewish history and culture we are well aware of the denial of entry into the United States to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler, and are outraged that fellow human beings, refugees from Syria who are fleeing war and death, are not being welcomed here. The offense to the lessons of history is intensified by the fact that President Trump signed these executive orders on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are shocked by proposals of a future religious test for entry into the United States.
As the Chancellor of our University recently stated, “Our country was founded by individuals escaping from persecution based on their religion. Our government was founded on a belief that ‘all men are created equal.’ We are a nation of immigrants whose history was enriched by the waves of immigrants crossing onto our shores. Similarly, the University of Pittsburgh is built on a foundation of values that rejects discrimination and embraces diversity as essential to the tasks of education and discovery. Our University's remarkable success story has been written by individuals who came from all over the world—by men and women who shared all types of religious beliefs. They came to Pittsburgh to learn, to teach, to discover, and to serve. Without question, we are a better university because of them.”
This executive order and some of the additional proposals to severely restrict the movement of people on the basis of religion and national origin threaten not only human decency but the scholarly enterprise itself. Such actions make research and collaboration abroad more difficult and impede collaboration with academic researchers in other countries.

Along with colleagues around the country we demand that the United States government end this outrageous, misguided, and potentially unconstitutional policy immediately.
Adam Shear (Director, Jewish Studies Program)
Jeffrey Aziz
Brock Bahler
Laurie Cohen
Amy-Diana Colin
Seymour Drescher (emeritus)
Haya Feig
Lucy Fischer
Benjamin Gordon
Laura Gotkowitz
Lina Insana
Hannah Johnson
Rachel Kranson
Irina Livezeanu
Clark Muenzer 
Alexander Orbach (emeritus)
Irina Reyn