Recruitment
The
New Jersey Secure Corps, an AmeriCorps program, is
currently seeking to fill nine positions under its
Homeland Security grant. In responding to the call
for service, the participants receive a living allowance
of $9,900 for full-time service, and are eligible
to receive an educational award voucher valued at
$4,725 for each year of service. Individuals may serve
up to two years in AmeriCorps. This program is funded
by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Contacts:
Rowena Madden and Jeffrey Cantor at the New Jersey Commission
on
National and Community Service
Phone: (609) 633-9627; Fax: (609) 777-2939
E-mail:
rowena.madden@sos.state.nj.us or
Jeff.cantor@sos.state.nj.us
Training
Secure
Corps members receive the following training:
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Eight week CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training course
- DOHSS
(Department of Health and Senior Services) quarantine training
sessions
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Statewide AmeriCorps training events
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Community outreach training
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Community meeting organization training
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Citizenship training
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Other scheduled Secure Corps training events
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
of individual Secure Corps members will depend upon their placements
and may vary from county to county. Secure Corps members responsibilities
include
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Engaging the local community partners, service delivery sector,
and general public;
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Becoming familiar with the National VOAD document “Design
for Success: Development Tool for Effective VOADs;
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Playing critical roles in enabling their county VOAD policy makers
to reach previously unmet objectives;
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Organizing twenty education and outreach programs in their respective
counties, reaching at least one thousand individuals during the
course of their terms;
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Submitting weekly summaries of their activities and their respective
VOADs’ weekly progresses to the Secure Corps team leader
for the Secure Corps newsletter;
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Maintaining contact with current VOAD member organizations;
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Contacting prospective VOAD member organizations regarding recruitment;
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Creating and maintaining the VOAD membership and mailing lists,
meeting minutes, database of volunteers and resources, and library
of member organizations’ disaster plans; and
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Working with individual member organizations in disaster drills,
serving on VOAD subcommittees, and acting as liasons to the county
OEM.
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