The site development coordinator communicates with community partners (non-profit organizations) to assist with service challenge site research and development. Assists with site leader recruitment, communication, and training. Develops site leader informational packets for the event, as well as facilitates and coordinates the Challenge Packet selection process.

This position requires a lot of communication with folks, so be prepared. Your main job is to organize the service projects (we call them "challenges") for the event. Normally, for MLK service days, non-profits just let the organizers know they have a need (painting a room for example) and people show up and do it. End of story. Which is good...non-profits need things to get done. But the MLK Challenge (and you, as the site development coordinator) does it a little differently.

See Developing Challenges & Communicating with Non-profits for more information.

Another piece of the site development coordinator's job is to recruit & work with the faculty/staff site-leaders for the day. Find more information on Site-Leaders.

One perhaps difficult piece of being site development coordinator will be keeping the challenges a SECRET. While this certainly isn't mandatory, other campuses have found that keeping the projects under wraps until the day-of definitely helps to heighten the excitement. Some campuses even keep the challenges a secret from the rest of the committee (the staff member & event chair are normally in the loop though) until the day before MLK day. Don't be afraid to ask for ideas, or run one particularly challenging challenge-idea by your committee -- that's what they're there for! The idea is just that there's a hint of excitement until the very end for the committee too.