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Research Data Analyst (UC Berkeley Labor Center)

The Center for Labor Research and Education [Labor Center] is a public service and outreach program of the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Founded in 1964, the Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. The Labor Center’s curricula and leadership training’s serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. The Labor Center carries out research on topics such as job quality and workforc e develo pment issues, and we work with unions, government, and employers to develop innovative policy perspectives and programs. We also provide an important source of research and information on unions and the changing work force for students, scholars, policymakers and the public.

This position will involve gathering, analyzing, and interpreting a wide variety or research data, which may include selecting data samples, preparing questionnaires, and analyzing collected information according to established statistical methods. Prepares reports, charts, tables, and other visual aids.

Responsibilities 

  • Plans studies, including the design of survey instruments and determining the sampling and reporting procedures.
  • Cleans and prepares data sets, primarily from government sources, for analysis, using Stata.
  • Collaborates on the design, documentation, testing and implementation of research studies.
  • Gathers and analyzes research data; prepares and summarizes information and/or recommendations.
  • May be involved in researching, evaluating and selecting new data reporting products.
    Drafts and edi ts reports and/or analyses.
  • Researches and summarizes academic and applied research.

Required Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
  • Two-years of work experience conducting policy research.
  • Demonstrated quantitative skills and experience in data/statistical analysis, including analyzing large government datasets.
  • Strong Stata programming skills.
  • Ability to take initiative and manage projects with minimal supervision.
  • Skills to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and written.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to work well with university faculty, staff and students as well as labor leaders and rank and file workers.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Master’s degree in public po licy, economics, sociology, or related discipline.
  • Coursework and/or applied research experience in industrial relations, labor economics, and/or labor market analysis.

Salary & Benefits 

Full-time position. Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits.

How to Apply: 

Please submit applications via this portal:
https://hrw-vip-prod.is.berkeley.edu/psc/JOBSPROD/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=20376&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1

Equal Employment Opportunity 

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applic ants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Sustainable Communities Organizer, East Harlem (Community Voices Heard)

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a member-led multi-racial organization, principally women of color and low-income families in New York State that builds power to secure social, economic and racial justice for all. Founded in 1994 by welfare recipients in New York City working to fight unjust welfare policies, we have since expanded our organization to include working on multiple issues in three additional communities in the Hudson Valley. Our core organizing issues include fighting for a just social safety net, good jobs and access to them, truly affordable housing, a participatory democracy, and a fair share tax system.

Our NYC office is located in East Harlem/ El Barrio and we have additional sites in three other small cities in New York State – Yonkers (Westchester County), Newburgh (Orange County), and Poughkeepsie (Dutchess County).

Job Description:

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is seeking a mid-level, bi-lingual Spanish/ English organizer to expand the organization’s work advancing an agenda for truly affordable housing and good jobs in East Harlem.

CVH is currently involved in supporting the creation of a comprehensive Neighborhood Plan in East Harlem / El Barrio to influence the ultimate rezoning and planning process that the City of New York is advancing. Multiple Community Visioning Workshops are scheduled to gather community input, and a variety of sub-groups are digging into the ideas generated by the community to craft concrete recommendations. Initially, the Organizer will work to support broad-based community engagement and mobilization efforts around the Neighborhood Planning process. The Neighborhood Planning process will be completed by the end of the year or early in 2016.

Once the plan is completed, CVH is interested in ensuring that an organized base of individuals and organizations in the community have the power to advance the housing and jobs priorities in the Plan and that low-income people’s needs are at the forefront of any community change. The ideal candidate for the position will be able to advance work on three levels: (1) expanding and managing a CVH East Harlem leadership committee of engaged low-income residents ready to build power to determine how change happens in the community, (2) building out a coalition of other organizations in the community ready to work together to advance particular programmatic and policy goals, and (3) engaging with other citywide partners dealing with similar issues in other communities in order to advance an agenda beneficial to low-income families.

The responsibilities of the position will include:

  • Relational Meetings: Doing strategic outreach in East Harlem / El Barrio and coordinating members and leaders to do the same; keeping a rigorous schedule of one-on-one relational meetings; maintaining contact and communication with individuals met.
  • Outreach & Mobilization:Meeting new people through door knocking, public site outreach, and other forums; moving individuals and groups met to participate in meetings, trainings, actions, etc.
  • Campaign Development, Planning & Implementation: Facilitating the prioritization of demands for insertion into the neighborhood plan as well as for campaigns to advance priorities outside of the neighborhood planning process.
  • Committee Development: Pulling together and staffing an organizing committee of local leaders to determine the focus of a campaign and then make ongoing decisions regarding the campaign’s direction; providing critical background information to leadership team so as to facilitate strategic decision-making.
  • Leadership Development: Building the skills of active membership to understand the political underpinnings of the campaign (i.e. legal & policy context, power analysis, etc.) and to take on more and more roles in the campaign (i.e. giving testimony, facilitating meetings, conducting outreach, etc.) through both one-on-one development and workshops.
  • Coalition & Stakeholder Work: Working with ally organizations and networks in the community, city, and beyond to move forward campaign goals and demands; helping to maintain a local network of organizations ready to engage in the neighborhood planning process and the organizing work needed to implement it.
  • Fundraising:Assisting organization in growing its dues-paying membership and supporting fundraising events.

This is a full-time position that begins as soon as possible. This is a one-year position with a possibility of a renewal for an additional year.

The Field & Communications Director will supervise the Sustainable Communities Organizer, and the position will work collaboratively with the Executive Director and other NYC staff. The position will be based in NYC but will require occasional out-of- NYC travel to other CVH offices.

Qualifications:

  • Applicants must be committed to ideology of building community power & share our commitment to membership grassroots decision-making, radical politics & our theory of social change.
  • Minimum 3 years community organizing, union organizing, political organizing, and/ or legislative issue advocacy experience required.
  • Experience in base building, door knocking, one-on-ones, leadership development, mobilization, strategy and campaign development & implementation essential.
  • Experience working in coalition and working with diverse partners is critical.
  • Ability to work independently, yet take direction, according to goals of the organization.
  • Spanish language skills are strongly desired.

How to apply

Please send resume and cover letter to Sondra Youdelman, Community Voices Heard 115 East 106th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10029 or email cvh@CVHaction.org. If sending an email, make sure to put “Sustainable Communities Organizer” in the subject line.

CVH is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, and people with current/ past experience on public assistance or residency in public housing are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information please check out our web page at: www.cvhaction.org.

Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Interviews will begin immediately with qualified candidates and will continue until the position is filled.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Seeks Voting Rights Organizer

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy and community education. AALDEF has a 12-person staff and is supported by foundations, corporations, individual contributions, and special events. For more information about AALDEF and its voting rights activities, visit our website at www.aaldef.org.

DESCRIPTION:

AALDEF’s Asian American Democracy Program seeks to promote fairness in the electoral process and invigorate the civic participation of Asian Americans, especially new citizens and persons not yet fluent in English. By expanding access to the electoral process for Asian Americans, AALDEF improves the quality of democracy for all Americans.

The Voting Rights Organizer is a one-year position and may be extended, subject to available funding. The Organizer will be responsible for mobilizing Asian American community groups for a non-partisan exit poll of Asian American voters and overseeing volunteers for Election Day poll monitoring in several states for the 2016 Presidential Election.

The job includes recruiting, training, and supervising volunteers; working with community leaders; supervising the development, translation, and printing of materials; and giving educational presentations. The Organizer will also oversee post- election follow-up and assist in writing a report about Asian American voter participation in the 2016 elections.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to supervise volunteers and work with a wide variety of community leaders and organizations.
  • Strong knowledge of MS Access and other database systems.
  • Bilingual ability in an Asian language is desirable.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Experience in community organizing is desirable.
  • Ability to travel and work on occasional weekends.

How to apply

Send a cover letter, resume, and three references to:

Voting Rights Organizer Search AALDEF
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor

New York, NY 10013-2815
fax: 212-966-4303
Email: info@aaldef.org (put “voting rights organizer search” in the subject line)

DEADLINE: Applicants will be considered on a rolling basis until filled.

–AALDEF is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer–

Program Manager, Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (NYC Dept of Small Business Services)

See original posting at NYC.gov

The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) is a vibrant, client-centered agency whose mission is to serve New York’s small businesses, jobseekers and commercial districts. SBS makes it easier for companies in New York City to start, operate, and expand by providing direct assistance to business owners, supporting commercial districts, promoting financial and economic opportunity among minority- and women-owned businesses, preparing New Yorkers for jobs, and linking employers with a skilled and qualified workforce. SBS continues to reach for higher professional standards through innovative systems, new approaches to government, and a strong focus on its employees.

About the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative: The Worker Cooperative Business Development initiative will support the creation of jobs in worker cooperatives by coordinating education and training resources and by providing technical, legal, and financial assistance. The initiative will fund a comprehensive citywide effort to reach cooperative entrepreneurs, provide for the start-up of new worker cooperative small businesses, and assist existing cooperatives. The initiative will offer workforce development and concrete skills for unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers in high-needs neighborhoods.

Job Description: The Program Manager oversees efforts and initiatives designed to sustain and enhance the level of service delivery provided to worker cooperatives and entrepreneurs. The responsibilities of the Manager are both strategic, in developing best practices and processes, and operational, in creating quality, consistency and accountability across all service providers. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic leader to manage all day-to-day strategy, operations, and partnership development for the initiative as well as provide ongoing leadership, vision, and support for all service provider staff as they strive to develop and grow the impact of the services they deliver.

See full posting and application instructions here.

From Fast Food to Nonprofits: $15/hr in NYS

As New York State moves towards a $15/hr wage floor for fast food workers, some are asking: are fast food workers enough? In City & State this week, James Parrott and Jennifer Jones-Austin (Opinion: The Importance of a $15 Wage Floor for New York’s Nonprofits) argue for a wage increase for “[t]he 250,000 workers in New York’s nonprofit sector providing essential human services.” They write:

Over 80 percent of these workers are women, most are not represented by a labor union, and nearly two-fifths have at least a 4-year bachelor’s degree (twice the share as in fast food).

Yet half of this workforce makes less than $15 an hour. That’s not nearly enough to provide for basic family budget needs in any part of our state. Like fast-food workers, the earnings of many human services workers are so low that they qualify for public assistance.

Human services pay, they note, is directly linked to state allocations for human service contract funding. They write:

It makes good fiscal sense for the state to increase human services contract funding to raise the pay of low-paid nonprofit workers. High employee turnover will decline, yielding hiring costs savings and improved service quality. After all, many of these government-funded services are intended to help low-income families get back on their feet and to better care for their children and other family members. Improved delivery of these essential services will save taxpayers in the long run, as will the reduced use of public assistance by nonprofit workers.

For the full piece, visit City & State.

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