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Chicago Teacher Residency
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Do you want to teach and transform the lives of children in Chicago's high-poverty schools? AUSL seeks talented, committed individuals who are passionate about urban education for the Chicago Teacher Residency, a post-graduate program in education. This intensive 12-month, full-time, paid training program combines teacher preparation, certification, and a Master's degree to give Residents the tools they need to dramatically improve student achievement in Chicago's high-poverty, chronically failing schools.
After the training year, graduates commit to teach in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for at least four years.
As an AUSL Chicago Teacher Residency resident, you will receive:
- A full school year of intensive urban teacher training: Work four days a week in the classroom of an experienced Mentor teacher, at an AUSL teacher training CPS school. Experience intensive and individualized coaching, guidance and opportunities for practice that will shape you into a confident, capable, and reflective teacher ready for the special challenges of your own classroom in a CPS school. Residencies for all grade levels (K-12) and content areas (Math, Science, Special Education, etc.) are available.
- A Master's degree and Illinois teaching certification: Earn a Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University and your full Illinois Initial teaching certification in just one year. If you are already certified to teach, we offer a Master of Education in Urban Education.
- An affordable route to teaching: Receive financial support for your training year: a $30,000 salary plus a $2,775 AmeriCorps Education Award voucher (pending eligibility) or a $40,000 salary for Mathematics residents (no AmeriCorps award), discounted tuition from National Louis University, and financial aid including loan forgiveness.
- Post-training job placement opportunity: After the training year, graduates commit to teach in an AUSL-managed Chicago Public School for at least four years. Apply your training to help transform a high-poverty, chronically failing school and dramatically improve the academic outcomes and lives of your students. As a first year CPS Master's degree teacher, earn over $50,000 plus benefits.
Minimum Requirements to Apply
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum GPA of 2.5/4.0 in the last 60 hours of coursework
- U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident
- Dedication, commitment and resilience that are required to succeed in an urban public school
Join AUSL's movement to transform public education in Chicago and launch a rewarding and exciting career as a teacher.
Apply online by our next deadline (Early: November 1, 2012) for our coming program year, which begins in July 2013. AUSL processes applications throughout the year, so apply early to earn a spot before the program is full.
AUSL's mission is to improve student achievement in Chicago's high-poverty, chronically failing schools through its disciplined transformation process, built on a foundation of specially trained AUSL teachers. AUSL has trained nearly 500 teachers since 2002 and manages a growing network of 25 Chicago Public Schools serving approximately 15,000 students. AUSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Individual Giving Manager
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Reports to: Vice President of External Affairs
Location: Chicago, IL
Responsibilities: The Individual Giving Manager will help the Shriver Center achieve its annual budget goals for individual donations and major gifts by working collaboratively with the President and External Affairs Vice President to develop individual and major donor giving strategies, researching, cultivating, and soliciting gifts from individual donors and prospects throughout the US, and providing staff support to the President, Vice President and volunteers.
Responsibilities include:
- Participate in all aspects of the giving cycle: research and identify prospects; cultivate relationships through personal communication, mailings and visits; solicit, acknowledge and close gifts; and steward relationships.
- Manage a portfolio of major donor prospects and develop and implement individual cultivation, solicitation and stewardship strategies for each prospect in portfolio.
- Provide support to the President, Board, Vice President of External Affairs, staff and volunteers as needed to cultivate, solicit and steward prospects.
- Work with the Vice President and Media and PR Manager to develop a theme for annual fund appeal and participate in the creation of donor cultivation and solicitation communications.
- Assist in planning and executing cultivation and stewardship events.
- Work with the President and VP of External Affairs to develop strategies and objectives for individual, major and planned gift prospects.
- Participate in monthly Prospect Management meetings with External Affairs staff and the President.
- Track prospects and donor activities in relationship management database and provide support to VP of External Affairs in tracking progress against goals.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of five years of demonstrated success in individual and/or major gift fundraising with a proven track record of securing large gifts and increasing contributions
- Proven ability to plan strategically and build long-term relationships with donors
- Experience using individual and major donor prospect research to identify and solicit new donors
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proven ability to manage numerous projects and meet multiple pressing deadlines simultaneously while being independently motivated
- Solid computer skills and experience managing donor and prospect information in donor databases; Raiser's Edge experience preferred
- Willingness to travel as needed within the United States
- A commitment to the Shriver Center's work to advance justice and opportunity
Salary and Benefits
Salary is commensurate with experience; excellent health, retirement and other benefits; generous leave; and collegial staff environment
Please send resume to mollybartlett@povertylaw.org
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Wirtz Beverage Group
Customer Service Representative
Purpose:
Efficiently provide excellent customer service support to external and internal customers. Answer and respond to all phone calls on a timely manner. Accurately process all customer orders.
Department: Customer Service
Reports To: Customer Service Manager
Required Duties:
- Answer and respond to customer phone calls promptly and accurately
- Enter customer orders into system
- Assist with paperwork - process, organize and file
- Review credits/invoices of returned product for accuracy
- Must be able to communicate with customers, sales teams, drivers, customer service team and any other department as needed
Must be able to:
- Live and demonstrate the Wirtz Ways of Working (values).
- Excellent communication skills
- Good multi-tasking and organizational skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Display general office skills to operate copy machine, fax machine, scanner, etc.
- Demonstrate attention to detail. Must be able to identify mistakes and correct them
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers
- Demonstrate excellent keyboarding / typing skills
- Strong computer skills (MS Office -Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Required Skills:
- College Degree - B.A./B.S. preferred
- 1+ years of experience in related area
- 10-Key by touch
- Type 50 WPM
- Excellent MS Office skills
Physical Demands of Job:
- Frequent hand motion with answering and dialing phones and computer
- Occasional carrying, overhead reaching and lifting of 15 pounds to perform various duties as assigned
- Occasional immediate reaching to perform various office duties as assigned
- Occasional standing for short amounts of time to perform various duties
- Occasional walking for short amounts of time to perform various duties
- Extended sitting for long periods of time at desk or workstation
- Minimal squatting or bending to perform various duties
Merchandiser
Purpose:
Drive volume and profit growth in account and support salesperson in merchandising activities.
Department: Sales
Reports To: District Manager
Required Duties:
- Communicate merchandising tactics to accounts
- Pack out shelves, build and refresh displays, place POS, stock cold box
- Coordinate product resets
- Obtain feedback from accounts on effectiveness of consumer programming and report trends to management
- Correct delivery discrepancies
- Coordinate timing of merchandising activities with salesperson and key account manager
- Continual development of industry, channel and brand knowledge
- Other duties as assigned
Core Competencies:
- Ways of Working (5)
- Time Management
- Relationship Building
- Problem Solving
- Everyday use and knowledge of Socially Facilitated Selling
Must be able to:
- Live and demonstrate the Wirtz Ways of Working (values).
- Live and demonstrate the functional and leadership training capabilities
- Demonstrate good communication skills
- Demonstrate and exhibit high levels of professionalism
- Demonstrate sound judgment and problem solving skills
- Perform job duties in an accurate, proficient and timely manner
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Rely on some instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job
- Interact positively with internal and external individuals
Required Skills:
- College degree preferred
- Must possess a valid driver's license
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Must have reliable transportation and proof of auto insurance
Physical Demands of Job:
- Carrying and lifting 45-65 pounds
- Immediate reaching to perform various duties
- Overhead reaching to perform various duties
- Standing and walking for periods of time to perform various duties
- Squatting or bending to perform various duties as assigned
Sales Associate
Purpose:
To meet or exceed pre-determined service expectations while selling product, merchandising and fulfilling route management objectives in order to drive volume and profit growth in accounts.
Department: Sales
Reports To: District Manager
Required Duties:
- Plan and execute a daily schedule of sales call on a pre-determined route (route schedule)
- Effectively plan on a daily, weekly, or monthly/quarterly basis with quota and distribution objectives
- Communicate through voicemail, email and proper follow through on issues deemed important to management, our customers and suppliers
- Be present and punctual for mandatory sales meetings and brand kick-offs
- Report on issues related to the competitive market and offer constructive suggestions
- Work with suppliers representatives and managers in the field to promote sales
- Meet with each account/store manager on a regular basis (weekly)
- Service and improve the marketability of our products through shelf management, display position and frequency, concept selling and price point management
- Communicate merchandising tactics to accounts
- Pack out shelves, build and refresh displays, place POS and stock cold box
- Obtain feedback from accounts on effectiveness of consumer programming and report trends to management
- Correct delivery discrepancies
- Coordinate and support merchandising activities/resets
- Continual development of industry, channel, and brand knowledge
- Merchandise back-room inventory at retail
- Merchandise product deliveries to shelf and floor
- Maintain shelf schematic compliance
- Other duties as assigned
Core Competencies:
- Ways of Working (5)
- Persuasive Selling Format
- Structured Call
- Business Math
- Time Management
- Relationship Building
- Problem Solving
- Everyday use and knowledge of Socially Facilitated Selling
Must be able to:
- Live and demonstrate the Wirtz Ways of Working (values).
- Live and demonstrate the functional and leadership training capabilities
- Demonstrate good communication skills
- Demonstrate and exhibit high levels of professionalism
- Demonstrate sound judgment and problem solving skills
- Perform job duties in an accurate, proficient and timely manner
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Rely on some instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job
- Interact positively with internal and external individuals
Required Skills:
- College degree preferred or equivalent sales experience
- Proficient MS Office skills
- Must possess a valid driver's license
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- Must have reliable transportation and proof of auto insurance
Physical Demands of Job:
- Carrying and lifting 45-65 pounds
- Immediate reaching to perform various duties
- Overhead reaching to perform various duties
- Standing and walking for periods of time to perform various duties
- Squatting or bending to perform various duties as assigned
To apply and submit resume, please visit our careers website at www.OneWirtzRecruiting.com
Due to volume of inquiries, phone calls from agencies or prospective applicants will not be accepted
www.WirtzBeverageGroup.com
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Wirtz Beverage Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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