Liaison Coordinator

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A Liaison Coordinator (LC) oversees all AFS liaison activity within their designated area or group and ensures compliance with AFS guidelines and the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET) monthly contact requirements. The LC works directly with Team liaisons to ensure that monthly student and host family contacts are occurring (quarterly contact with schools) and that appropriate documentation for these contacts is being submitted

Contents 1 Responsible to: 2 Time Required: 3 Competencies Required: 4 Training: 5 Responsibilities: 6 Works with: 7 Liaison Coordination Expertise 7.1 Benefits:

Responsible to:

Team Chair

Time Required:

• 5-10 hours per month:

Competencies Required:

• Good organizational skills
• Able to set and honor commitments
• Well-developed communication skills
• Able to follow-up in a timely manner when information is needed/missing
• Basic computer skills

Training:

• Liaison Coordinators will be provided with training, materials, and on-going support from a designated Team volunteer and/or AFS staff member.
• Peer-to-peer training and/or mentoring is available.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all hosted participants and host families are assigned a local liaison with no more than 2 students/families per liaison.
• Communicate all liaison assignments to staff in the Regional Service Center in a timely manner.
• Provide training to and serve as advisor for liaisons.
• Make certain that all liaisons within the designated area or group are contacting the assigned participants each month and that each contact is documented and in compliance with CSIET standards.
• Use Global Link and encourage liaisons to use Global Link as the preferred means of documenting each monthly contact.
• Collect mailed or emailed liaison contact forms from liaisons that do not use Global Link and input the contacts into Global Link.
• Follow up with liaisons each month when a monthly contact has not been documented.
• Encourage liaisons to work with the Team volunteer Support Coordinator if adjustment issues surface on the part of the student, the host family, or the school.

Works with:

• Staff
  • Regional Support Staff
• Volunteer
  • Designated Student/Family Liaisons
  • Team Support and Hosting Coordinators

Liaison Coordination Expertise

If you are an experienced Liaison Coordinator volunteer and would be willing to answer questions from other volunteers, please insert your name here.

• Eric Lomeli

Benefits:

• Assist in modeling the AFS mission to communities, individuals, and families.
• Play a lead role in maintaining AFS as a strong international education organization and program serving local and regional parts of the country.
• Develop or fine-tune organizational/management skills for career development.
• Form lifelong relationships with participants, host families, volunteers, and staff.
• Learn about other cultures and understand the American experience from others’ perspectives.