The Consortium for Worker Education (www.cwe.org), a New York City based non-profit committed to workforce training and economic development, is looking for a Community Organizer to assist the Director in operating a new community based project in Astoria, Queens, New York.

Astoria is a community that is experiencing many changes and challenges and serves as a bell-weather for NYC’s working class neighborhoods.  A shifting political environment with new progressive leaders, a changing workforce navigating the gig-economy and small business community challenged by e-commerce, and an increasing need for training and education to meet these challenges have been exacerbated by the pandemic and an uncertain recovery.

To address these issues and pilot programs to serve the broader City, the CWE founded the Astoria Workers Project, a broad partnership of elected officials, community based organizations, Labor Unions, academia, religious and business leaders, along with advocates for immigrant’s rights and Co-op developers to create new collaborations and aggregate services that assist working families in confronting current realities.

The goal of the program is to establish a physical center housing a wide array of these services under one roof, sustaining partner provided programs and actively promoting these services in the Astoria and surrounding communities.

To assist the partners and AWP Program Director, the CWE is seeking a Community Organizer to do the following:

• Liaise with AWP partners, offices of local elected officials, and other community based organizations
• Spread awareness of the AWP purpose and programs to local community level
• Develop strategic partnerships and community based entities and businesses
• Convene and facilitate surveys, forums, and discussions on community needs to inform programming at the proposed AWP center
• Connect community members with services at the AWP and other public resources

The Community Organizer would ideally have pre-existing knowledge of Astoria and the surrounding area, experience in community, union and/or political organizing and strong communications and administrative skills.  The Community Organizer will report director to the AWP Director.

Process

Compensation is commensurate with experience.  The CWE provides full family health care, pharmaceutical, dental, optical and pension benefits.  The CWE is an equal opportunity employer, in compliance with all Federal EEOC regulations.

For consideration, all applicants must submit resumes, references and two writing samples to Katelynn Burke at kburke@cwe.org by May 15^th, 2022.  A panel interview process will follow, schedule TBD.