Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service
Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service

Center Operations

COI Abigail Austria (C’22) welcomes people to the CSJ.

The CSJ Operations Team supports CSJ EngageDC programs, student organizations, community-based learning courses, engaged research, and racial justice work through “behind-the-scenes” infrastructure and logistics. Members of the Center Operations Team work closely with CSJ professional staff in necessary administrative and financial work, training and compliance, research projects, communications, and other operations. Additionally, the CSJ Operations Team manages the day-to-day operations of the Hoya Hub food pantry. Hours for each Operations team member are highly flexible and built around that student’s schedule. The Operations team includes opportunities for leadership development.

The Operations Team positions are FWS only and the pay-rate is $17.50/hour for your first semester and +25 cents for every semester after that. Hours are flexible across the roles.

The Operations Team consists of two primary roles and several secondary roles. Depending on a student’s availability and interests, a Operations Team members are involved in at least one of the primary roles and and at least one of the other secondary roles.

Questions to csjadmin@georgetown.edu.

Primary Roles

This is a one of the two primary roles for the CSJ Operations Team. Center Operations provide administrative, financial, and compliance support to CSJ’s operations, supporting EngageDC programs and student organizations’ activities in Poulton Hall. The Operations Team manage CSJ’s resources, supplies, and space. Team members will learn about CSJ’s programs, opportunities, and operations and often serve as a first point of contact to students, staff, faculty, and members of the community for CSJ in their work at the Front Desk.

This team also manages the day-to-day operations of the Hoya Hub, a food pantry to reduce food insecurity in the Georgetown University community. Ops Team members support the stocking and operations of Hoya Hub.

Van Assistants support the operations of CSJ’s van fleet. The fleet is a critical component of CSJ’s infrastructure and strategy to respond to community requests and needs, while also reducing barriers to access that the inequities of public transportation can create. Van Assistants keep the vans fueled and ready for use across dozens of CSJ programs and student organizations. Hours are flexible and usually involve evening or morning hours. A valid driver’s license for at least one year is required to obtain a driver authorization.

Secondary Roles

This committee supports the marketing, outreach, partnership development, messanging and related educational programming for the Hoya Hub.

The Communications Committee facilitates communications between and amongst CSJ programs, Georgetown University, and DC community partners. The communications committee will create graphics for operations team (Hoya Hub programming) and broader CSJ initiatives to promote interaction across campus and community.

The Evening Programs Drivers are a critical component of CSJ operations of our DC Schools Project (DCSP) evening programs or on an ad hoc basis. Without them, CSJ would not be able to serve the community. The drivers fulfill drive Hoya tutors to homes for the DC Schools Project’s (DCSP) 1-2-1 in-home tutoring program. For DCSP, drivers drop off the tutors at the homes in which they tutor, and then pick them up after their tutoring sessions to bring them back to campus. CSJ provides trainings so that drivers feel comfortable driving a 12-passenger van and navigating the city and routes. While driving for Evening Programs, Georgetown University provides vehicle insurance–your personal insurance is not applied when driving for University business. Payment of parking violation and moving violation fines are responsibility of the driver.

This role may also participate in behind-the-wheel training of student drivers in other CSJ programs and student-run organizations and supports in management of the driver incentive program.

CSJ has launched a monthly collections program to benefit DC partners and community-based organizations. These collections will respond to community-identified needs and highlight important social injustices where our Georgetown community can make a difference – not only with collections, but through multiple pathways for change.

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