Help Arkansas Youth RISE!
We are currently looking for sponsors, volunteers, future social workers, educators of all kinds to work with us on this program. Do you have a skill that will help Arkansas Youth to RISE to their full potential?
Download the R.I.S.E. Information PacketBecome a R.I.S.E. Mentor, Sponsor, or VolunteerR.I.S.E. Youth RegistrationWe are currently looking for sponsors, volunteers, future social workers, educators of all kinds to work with us on this program. Do you have a skill that will help Arkansas Youth to RISE to their full potential?
What is R.I.S.E.?
The mission of the R.I.S.E. program is to reach our minority youth in the Central Arkansas area, while providing education, mentorship, and character building. The success and progression of our minority youth is and will always be our ultimate goal.
One Saturday of each month, R.I.S.E. will meet at a designated location for educational mentorship. Education is a key factor to the success and progression of our minority youth. It’s the key to turning those negative statistics into positive ones. It is a goal to increase minority students’ participation and success in collegiate studies, trade studies, and the overall well-being of our society.
PROGRAM POSITIONS
Program Director
Summary: The program director is responsible for strategic, operational, and administrative duties of the R.I.S.E. youth mentorship program. The Director will provide oversight into program efficiency, growth, and functionality.
Key Duties:
- Create and maintain short and long term strategies on creating balances between mentors and mentees.
- Develop a retention plan for mentors and mentees.
- Create and implement a mentor recruitment and youth outreach plan.
- Plan and staff community outreach events, fairs, and festivals.
- Provide operational insight and direction to staff, mentors, and mentees.
- Develop and maintain community, educational, business, and political networks to ensure clear communication and growth within the program.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Assistant Program Director
Summary: The assistant program director is responsible for assisting the program director in all aspects of the R.I.S.E. youth mentorship program’s efficiency, growth, and functionality.
Key Duties:
- Seek out key figures within the community to create and maintain educational, business, and political relationships.
- Assist in developing a retention plan for mentors and mentees.
- Assist in creating a mentor recruitment and youth outreach plan.
- Assist in planning and staffing community outreach events, fairs, and festivals.
- Communicate key insight and directives to staff, mentors, and mentees when required.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Program Manager
Summary: The program manager will provide insight into the direction of the R.I.S.E. program. The program manager will create, suggest, and help implement new ideas, plans, and goals for the success and growth of the program.
Key Duties:
- Create and maintain program’s proposals, articles, and implementation transcripts.
- Introduce productivity and growth ideas to mentorship program board members and other key leaders.
- Research program perspectives and tools to increase efficiency and functionality
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Assistant Program Manager
Summary: The assistant program manager will assist the program manager in all aspects of creating and implementing new ideas, plans, and goals for the success and growth of the program.
Key Duties:
- Create, analyze and provide direction on program proposals, articles, and implementation transcripts.
- Introduce productivity and growth ideas to mentorship program board members and other key leaders.
- Assist in researching program perspectives and tools to increase efficiency and functionality.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Secretary
Summary: The secretary is responsible for all aspects of administrative duties for the R.I.S.E. program.
Key Duties:
- Organization of program schedules and files.
- Greeting program participants and guests.
- Answering and directing calls and emails when needed.
- Documenting and organizing all proposals, grant paperwork, articles, and other program paperwork in secure methods.
- Tracking and ordering program supplies.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Treasurer
Summary: The program treasurer will be responsible for maintaining, tracking, developing, and archiving all aspects of the program’s financial matters.
Key Duties:
- Creating, implementing, and maintaining a program budget.
- Creating plans and strategies to increase the efficiency and productivity of program spending.
- Tracking all incoming and outgoing finances.
- Maintaining program bank accounts.
- Handling all program tax matters.
- Create relationships with grant writers and track all grant fund allocations.
- Research potential program finance assets for growth.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD
Program Mentor
Summary: The R.I.S.E. program mentors will provide a safe, dynamic, fun place for our participants to learn important life, educational, and social skills. As a mentor you should be energetic, positive, and always looking out for our children’s best interest. We need individuals who realize that our actions now have a tremendous impact on our children’s future. Our program needs subject matter experts in the areas of Finance, Education, Social Justice, Business/Entrepreneurship, Creative Arts, and Collegiate Studies.
Key Duties:
- Create and implement lesson plans and presentations for your area of expertise.
- Develop strategies to communicate your expertise effectively to a broad range of youth participants.
- Provide participants with educational and operational skills for your subject of expertise.
- Mentor program participants for a designated amount of time for all program participants.
- Assess a participant’s needs and develop safe and helping relationships with assigned participants.
- Perform other mentor duties as needed and as assigned by program leaders.
Qualifications and Requirements: TBD