• Job Description

  Req#: 10118
  St. Catherine University and our Access and Success team invite applications for a full-time Social Worker position at the LSW level or higher.
  
  St Catherine University enrolls 30% first generation students and 29% students that are Pell grant recipients. We are proud to have achieved the status of being a minority serving institution (MSI) and we are committed to the success of our students, 20% of whom are parenting. The Social Worker works with any student in need of an emergency financial assistance grant for basic needs such as housing, food, and gas. Additionally the Social Worker supports individual pregnant and parenting students to provide support, assessment, advocacy, resources, referral to resources, and assists them with problem-solving.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  • Work with students requesting emergency grants, assessing for grants, and/or other campus and community resources.
  • Carry a pregnant and parenting student caseload for a particular enrollment group as well as a small Keys to Success student parents caseload of 4-5 students.
  • Supervise 3 student workers to manage their schedules, and train and guide them in their workforce development.
  • Work with individual student parents to provide support, assessment, advocacy, resources, referral to resources, and assist with problem-solving.
  • Outreach to student parent population with weekly “Access & Success News” emails during fall and spring semesters.
  • Maintain a caseload of four to five Keys to Success parenting students in need of intensive support.
  • Assist with weekly student parent support groups.
  • Participate in continuing education opportunities that focus on mental health issues, financial challenges, diversity, and strengthening families.
  • Serve as an active member of the Access and Success department team and engage with the campus community to promote services.
  • Engage with University colleagues, committees, and the campus community to promote services.
  • Maintain programming, recordkeeping, and data management.
  • Keep up to date with community resources for referral and networking.
  
  Employees at St. Kate’s feel a deep connection to the University’s Mission and Vision, and they live their values at work. Benefits available to full-time employees include:
  • Three weeks of accrued vacation time as well as fourteen (14) paid holidays and paid “gift” days when the University is closed.
  • Free tuition for employees and reduced tuition for their families after one year of service
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 403b retirement plan access
  • Accrued sick time
  • Six weeks of paid parental leave after one year of service
  
  St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a comprehensive Catholic university and home to one of the nation’s largest colleges for women, with associate and graduate programs for all genders. Founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1905, the University integrates liberal arts and professional education within the Catholic traditions of intellectual inquiry and social teaching. Committed to excellence and opportunity, St. Catherine enrolls students in certificate, associate, baccalaureate, mast

• About the company

  St. Catherine University is a private Catholic liberal arts university in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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