Job Opportunity: Community Trainers for Digital Literacy Outreach and Training

We are recruiting community trainers for the Foundation for California Community Colleges “California Connect” program. There are several part time positions (20-22 hours a week) paying $15.00 per hour in Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Kings, Kern, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Nevada, Placer, Tuolumne, Tulare, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sutter and Yolo counties.  Community Trainers will be hired to conduct digital literacy training for Central Valley residents who currently do not have access to broadband technology.

Job Purpose: Digital Literacy Outreach and Training
Under the direction of the program director and staff at the Great Valley Center, support digital literacy outreach and training functions of the Foundation’s California Connects program, currently funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration for Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The incumbent is accountable for supporting the execution of program implementation, documentation and practices; and communicating with program partners for the California Connects Program.

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Filing deadline for this position is February 15, 2011

For more information contact:
Manuel Alvarado, Program Director
Great Valley Center
(209) 522-5103
manuel@greatvalley.org

About California Connects

California Connects is a new program that will increase digital literacy and expand broadband Internet access to underserved populations throughout the state. Funded by a $10.9 million Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, California Connects
provides intensive outreach and hands-on training to students, who will, in turn, educate 61,120 new broadband users and influence 9,168 new broadband adopters over three years.

For more information visit:
http://www.foundationccc.org/WhatWeDo/CaliforniaConnects/tabid/771/Default.aspx