As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.
We have an excellent opportunity available to join our School Engagement Team! Help us advance our mission of championing longer, healthier lives by engaging students, parents, school administrators and other partners with the American Heart Association.
The Kids Heart Challenge and American Heart Challenge are school initiatives devoted to developing happy and healthy students through teaching valuable heart health lessons with the opportunity to make a difference in their community! Focused on the whole child, we are working with educators to make a lasting impact on the overall health and well-being of kids, schools, and communities. Come join us!
The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.
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ResponsibilitiesIn this full-time, seasonal (temporary) position, the School Engagement Associate will support the Development team and participating schools throughout the assigned territory with customer service and administrative support. Responsibilities include leading school assemblies and presentations, providing service to schools on-site and remotely, helping with email campaigns, scheduling recruitment and planning meetings with schools, and performing data entry and donation processing within established standards and policies. To provide excellent customer service, this position involves extensive travel throughout the assigned territory with an average of 40 school site visits each week.
This temporary position is from December 2024 up through April 2025.
Qualifications
The successful candidate for this role has a passion for health and the resourcefulness, detail-orientation and customer-service to engage youth, teachers and volunteers to enthusiastic action. Other qualifications include:
Experience with (or aptitude for) driving fundraising initiatives with schools and studentsStrong customer service and teamwork orientationEffective organizational, detail management and interpersonal skillsProficiency in Microsoft Office applicationsDemonstrated ability to adapt and present to a wide range of audiences from kindergarteners to teens and adults to facilitate online and in-person presentations Ability to do daily local travel and overnight travel; requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis. Compensation & BenefitsExpected pay range will be $19.60 per hour to $25.00 per hour. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay range may apply.
The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.
Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.
Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.
The American Heart Association’s 2024 Goal: Every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. As champions for health equity, by 2024, the American Heart Association will advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality.
At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.
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