Engagement Specialist! :)

Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:14 PM

Dear Christina,

I am happy to inform you that your request to complete your John Gardner Fellowship placement at the Corporation for National and Community Service has been approved. For the purposes of our records, your placement is considered a non-compensated, volunteer internship and the working title of your role is “Engagement Specialist.” The CEO’s team would like to welcome you to our family and we look forward to helping you achieve a productive fellowship.

This letter will cover our understanding of your fellowship and lay out the expectations of both parties. You will begin your internship on Monday Sept 13, 2010, and will end it on July 17, 2011, for a total of 10 months. We agreed that your work schedule is Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, with a daily 30-minute lunch break. I will serve as your supervisor and will provide you with day-to-day management, as well as a bi-weekly supervision meeting. _____________, Chief of Staff will serve as your mentor and will meet with you periodically through out your fellowship to provide professional advice and guidance. The attached draft work-plan provides a general position description with a list of projects, responsibilities and work tasks. Please note that this work-plan is in working draft form as we hope that this fellowship will serve as an opportunity for you to explore and learn all you can about the role of a federal agency in shaping the national service field and we want to allow for flexibility in defining the assignments that will best serve this purpose.

On your first day with us (September 13, 2010), we ask that you arrive at our office by 9:00 am. The Corporation is located at 1201 New York Avenue, NW. If you travel by subway, take either the Blue, Orange or Red line train to Metro Center. Once you arrive at the Corporation, please go to the 10th floor reception desk.

Much of your first day will be devoted to completing the on-boarding process. When you return to your computer, you will need to take the mandatory Computer Security Training in order to get your network account activated. During your first few days, you will also need to attend a new staff orientation presented by the Office of Human Capital and an external outreach training presented by General Counsel.

Space & Phone

Your workspace will be assigned the first week and should be ready for you to occupy on your very first day. As stated above, in order to use the Corporation’s computer network, you have to complete the mandatory security training first, to be granted access. We’ll also give you a short introduction to phone usage and our messaging system.

Schedule

You have agreed to a full-time (40 hours per week) schedule beginning Sept 13, 2010, through July 17, 2011. If this schedule is not accurate, please contact me immediately. We understand that you will need to be out of the office for a meeting in California in Dec or Jan as part of your Fellowship and that you will need time off for the holidays and other personal events. We ask that you give us at least a week’s notice if you will be out of the office.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Once again, I want to welcome you and offer our best wishes for a productive, engaging and growth-filled Fellowship with the Corporation for National and Community Service. I look forward to working closely with you beginning in September.