Scope of Work:

The Student Support Volunteer will help refugee students in Salt Lake City area navigate their school work by providing basic academic and technology support for youth in grades K-12th. Please note this is an in-person volunteer opportunity. Volunteers will be matched with a family with school aged children who need help with homework, online classwork, and ESL skills, and asked to meet weekly for one hour with the student/family. Tutors support each student with the homework/assignment they require, spanning across academic subjects/disciplines, home-language, and English language development level. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Uphold full commitment to a weekly schedule of tutoring sessions without absence or tardiness. 
  • Facilitate language assistance and homework/schoolwork help with refugee and immigrant youth tutees. 
  • Support tutee English language learning from diverse home language backgrounds and English language development levels, as assigned. 
  • Complete and submit all trainings and professional development by deadline, as assigned. 
  • Uphold and promote policies and practices necessary to create a linguistically supportive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed learning environment. 
  • Uphold all IRC and program and child safeguarding policies and directives 
  • Communicate with the IRC Education Team on a weekly basis on student progress and challenges experienced. 
  • Complete assigned surveys and data tracking tasks, as assigned. 
  • Complete and submit a monthly timesheet on Salesforce platform to track and codify IRC volunteer hours 

Requirements: 

  • Able to commit to one shift (1-2 hrs.) per week on a consistent basis 
  • Able to commit for a minimum of three months 
  • Clear IRC background check by deadline in order to work with minors and/or vulnerable populations. 
  • Complete and submit all IRC Youth tutor training modules by deadline. 
  • Participate in IRC Youth Tutor online synchronous training. 
  • Demonstrate reliability and flexibility. 
  • Demonstrate interest in learning about IRC history, philosophy, global work, and local efforts. 
  • Demonstrate respect for clients and staff from all racial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious etc. background. Demonstrate a desire to continuously grow own cultural competency. 
  • Demonstrate respect for clients and staff of all identities. 
  • Experience & commitment to education, and in particular education for youth who have experienced forced migration. 
  • Able to communicate effectively and clearly in English, knowledge of any of the following languages is a plus: Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili, Rohingya, Dari/Farsi/Pashto, Spanish, Vietnamese or Arabic 

Next Steps: 

  • Attend a general volunteer orientation to learn more about the IRC, the people we serve and the volunteer opportunities we host. Sign up here 
  • Attend Student Support Volunteer Onboarding Training with the IRC Education team 
  • Training will be conducted cohort-style at the beginning of the school year September 30th - October 4th. Volunteers will be provided with the training link upon completion of volunteer orientation.
  • All volunteers must clear a background check. We ask for a $45 donation to help cover the cost. Steps for this will be provided after you have attended both trainings. 

Questions? 

Please email us at [email protected].