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Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

Highland Hill Project Seeks Community Planning/Organizing Summer Interns (Yonkers, NY)

CGDCNY is a start-up/growing non-profit community development organization in Southwest Yonkers, NY. Our mission is to transform southwest Yonkers through urban planning and community leadership development. We are currently recruiting a team of paid interns to help administer our Highland Hill Community Planning Project which aims to create a comprehensive and community led neighborhood plan for a section of Southwest Yonkers. That plan will then be used as an outline for our organizing and base building work in Highland Hill.

For more information about our organization visit CGDCNY.org 

Term: June – late August

Compensation: $13.00/hour

Hours: 25-30/week

Location: 45 Ludlow Street, Yonkers, Suite 312 (Assessable via Metro North or 1 and 4 train) 

We are currently seeking the following:

Community Planning Intern

The Community Planning Intern will work under the direction of our Executive Director and Neighborhood Planning Committee. The Community Planning Intern will be responsible for assisting with the completion of our community needs assessment and assisting with the development of our Highland Hill Neighborhood Plan.

Responsibilities include:

  • Collecting & analyzing community needs data
  • Case study research
  • Report writing & coordinating final production of report
  • Community outreach & public presentations
  • Grant writing

Ideal candidates will:

  • Have a working knowledge of SPSS
  • Strong oral and written skills
  • Previous experience mapping data

Community Organizing Intern

The Community Organizing Intern will work under the direction of our Executive Director and Neighborhood Planning Committee. The Community Organizing Intern will be responsible for leading our community outreach & base building strategy which includes the collection of data for our needs assessment.

Responsibilities include:

  • Planning and coordinating outreach
  • Organizing focus groups, community forums, and events
  • Database Management

Ideal candidates will:

  • Have fluency in Spanish
  • Strong organizational & interpersonal skills
  • Experience with community organizing

Human Services Intern

Our Human Services Intern will work under the direction of our Executive Director and Neighborhood Planning Committee. The Human Services Intern will be responsible for building relationships with local service providing organizations and help build and manage our database system. Using the database, the Human Service Intern will help connect community members (particularly youth) with programing and resources to help them achieve their life goals.

Responsibilities include:

  • Build relationships & database of service providing agencies and key staff
  • Track client program placement and progress over time
  • Organize presentations promoting the availability of the program

Ideal candidate will:

  • Have fluency in Spanish
  • Strong Intrapersonal Skills
  • Be a student of social work or another relevant discipline

To apply: Send cover letter and resume to internships@cgdcny.org

Deadline: May 1st

*Please indicate which role you are applying for in the subject Ex. Subject: “Community Organizing Intern”

Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

Brandworkers Seeks Development Associate (Queens, NY)

Brandworkers is the first and only non-profit organization dedicated to the factory workers behind the soaring local food industry. Our members, mostly immigrant workers of color, are developing a new and innovative form of workplace association to achieve dignified jobs and a just local food system.

Through Brandworkers’ unique leadership development path and member-led campaigns, workers are transforming the local food sector industry-wide and validating the power of organizing from below. Founded in Queens and now with a nine-year track record of learning and award-winning victories, our unchanging belief is that workers themselves have a unique ability and a unique right to lead dramatic change in the economy and in society.

The Candidate:

Do you have conviction for helping our community raise the money that movements need to win? Is a commitment to racial, gender and immigrant justice central to your life?

This positions is for someone who will thrive in a culture defined by accountability to workers and commitment to helping workers win. You challenge the ways things have been done before, think deeply about how the world is changing, speak up with dissenting views, and practice candor always. You have a fine attention to detail, and relish being part of a team working together to get the job done. You love working with communities and being a community builder.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Engage in creative ideation and strategic planning sessions with Development Coordinator to plan and enhance individual donor giving through new and current individual donor initiatives.
  • Assist with facilitating the participation of supporters on a mutual journey with members to a just food system.
  • Create and help members create digital content to post on Brandworkers’ social media and homepage.
  • Develop and implement best practices to improve donor database record-keeping and research.
  • Coordinate volunteer program and vendor relations for Annual Awards Dinner and other fundraising events.
  • Contribute as needed to Brandworkers’ foundation fundraising initiatives.
  • Lead all administrative activities for all current and new individual fundraising initiatives.
  • Process incoming donations, update donor database, and prepare and mail tax acknowledgement letters.
  • Assist on Brandworkers’ overall administrative and compliance work.
  • Complete diverse assignments that may arise.
  • Serve as a full mission leader with an emphasis on delivering department-wide development objectives.

Your Qualifications:

  • You have experience in or a demonstrable interest in ally organizing and individual fundraising.
  • A specific, proven alignment with working class people, people of color, indigenous people, women, and immigrants is a must.
  • You have a genuine desire to help allies take a transformational journey with members and win justice.
  • You understand the necessity of resources to win justice struggles and relish the opportunity to help the community generate those resources.
  • You are fanatical about communicating clearly in writing and verbally, preferably in English and Spanish.
  • You have strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
  • You are comfortable using social media as well as MailChimp, WordPress, Asana, and Salesforce, or equivalent software.
  • You are comfortable using data and metrics to measure results and learn.
  • You own your work, relish feedback, roll-up your sleeves, and enjoy working in accountable teams. You are candid, have conviction for a point of view based on data, and speak up with dissenting views.
  • You think big, you take risks, and are not afraid to fail. You actively identify problems to solve and generate new concepts to test.
  • You have strong experience in providing administrative support.

How to Apply:

Send your resume and a meaningful cover letter to Brandworkers Development Coordinator, Harvir Kaur at hkaur@brandworkers.org. Salary is highly competitive commensurate with experience, and the position includes fully-paid health care. This is a full-time role based at Brandworkers in Queens.

Brandworkers strongly encourages applications from people of color, women, immigrants, indigenous people, LGBT people, and other traditionally oppressed communities.

Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

CAAAV Seeks NYCHA Organizer (NYC)

Do you speak Bangla, Korean, or Chinese (Canto and/or Mandarin)?

Do you want to learn how to organize in Asian immigrant communities for housing justice?

Do you want to organize from the framework of systems change?

You can spend a year at CAAAV and organize with our New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) organizing project fighting for language access and public housing preservation or with our Chinatown Tenants Union and fight to preserve our critical rent-stabilized housing stock and work with tenants to build a Chinatown envisioned by its residents.

We will be taking on an apprentice through ANHD‘s Center for Neighborhood Leadership program.

Apply here!

Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

NYCOSH Hiring Associate Director (NYC)

The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health is seeking an Associate Director to direct safety and health education, training, research, and advocacy work in the Metropolitan New York area. Candidate must be a self-starter, able to work independently and have a background in occupational safety and health and labor.

The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health is a coalition of over 200 local unions and 350 individual safety and health activists in the New York metropolitan area. NYCOSH uses training, education, advocacy, and organizing to improve health and safety conditions in our workplaces and our communities. The job will based in New York City, with regular travel to Long Island and Albany; and national travel required.

Required Qualifications

  • Experience working with unions, workers, and/or community organizations
  • Managerial and supervisory experience
  • Occupational safety and health background and knowledge
  • Grant-writing and administration experience
  • Experience working with budgets
  • Organizational and program development skills
  • Excellent writing and communication ability

Desired Qualifications

  • Five years experience in a supervisory position within a labor/social justice organization
  • Five years experience working within the labor movement
  • Successful demonstration of program/campaign work
  • Demonstrated ability to develop curricula and educational materials
  • Experience working in the New York Metropolitan area
  • Availability for evening, weekend work
  • Written and verbal Spanish language capacity

Responsibilities

  • Direct NYCOSH development, campaigns, and oversee programmatic activity
  • Supervise, and evaluate staff
  • Oversee organizational meetings and staff development
  • Assign work regarding occupational safety and health training to appropriate staff
  • Build NYCOSH’s organizational base and relationships
  • Develop resources and new programming for the organization
  • Grant writing and administration

Employees will receive a generous salary and a full benefits package.

Please email resumes and detailed cover letters to nycoshjobs@gmail.com by Friday, April 22nd, 2016. Impersonal cover letters will not be considered.

Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

UFCW Local 1500 Seeks Union Organizer (Westbury, NY)

Job title: Union Organizer

Position location: Westbury, NY

Start Date: As soon as possible

Summary:

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500 is the largest grocery retail union in New York with over 20,000 members working in grocery stores, pharmacies, and other industry jobs. We are a committed to building a powerful union that fights for economic, political, and social justice in our workplaces and communities. We are seeking a self-motivated, skilled and enthusiastic person to join our Organizing team.

Main Function: To identify, recruit and develop workers in the work place and greater community. This includes engaging workers at or near their work place, areas of public transit and the community.

Principal duties and requirements:

•    Labor, political, or community activism/organizing experience required.

•    Build one-on-one relationships with workers.

•    Recruit and develop the leadership ability of workplace leaders and worker committees.

•    Motivate individual workers and groups of workers to take action.

•    Engage workers in broader union efforts to bring pressure to bear on industry sectors.

•    Coordinate with workers to gather information that is useful in identifying opportunities for     membership growth and mobilization.

•    Commitment to social justice and worker’s rights required.

•    Willingness to conduct house visits and store visits.

•    Ability to engage and inspire people regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, class and/or experiences is required.

•    Must be flexible and willing to work long irregular hours, early mornings, evenings, and weekends

•    Must have a reliable insured car and valid driver’s license.

•    Must be able to work in a fast-paced team environment.

•    Basic writing and computer skills, general knowledge of Microsoft Office.

•    Preferably live centrally within Local 1500’s jurisdiction.

•    Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

•    Bilingual speaking (Spanish) is preferred.

Salary:

This position offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience. Full time position is subject to a probation period of six months.

To apply:

E-mail cover letter and resume with subject line “Union Organizer” to jobs@ufcw1500.org. Please be as specific as possible in cover letter with experience and skills that you have and include why you want to be a Union Organizer for UFCW Local 1500. No mail applications. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Position will remain open until filled.

The United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500 is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women, people of color and other members of underrepresented groups who will contribute to the diversity of our staff.

Labor and Community Job Opportunities, Opportunities

United for a Fair Economy Seeks Education Coordinator (Boston, MA)

United for a Fair Economy uses popular economics education as a tool to facilitate a better understanding of the economic conditions and structures that affect people’s lives, and ultimately, to inspire people to take action to change those realities. Our workshops and curricula draw on participants’ own experiences through dialogue and problem-solving activities, which include movement, storytelling, and other creative ways of learning.

This Boston-based Education Coordinator designs, organizes, and facilitates UFE’s Popular Economics Education workshops and presentations; designs and leads training of trainer events; and designs and disseminates materials for community-based educators, organizers, and leaders in support of our organizational partners: especially low-wage worker networks and state-based & national coalitions. Developing, strengthening and maintaining relationships with UFE partner organizations is a key part of the job, as well as working collaboratively with other UFE teams and projects.

Tasks, Duties, & Responsibilities

  • Design, organize, and facilitate UFE’s Popular Economics Education workshops, including tailoring presentations with and for our partner organizations.
  • Design, organize, and facilitate UFE’s Popular Economics Education Training of Trainer events, including designing curriculum, organizing logistics, and conducting outreach, as needed.
  • Design, update, and revise workshop curricula and related materials, including tools and resources for UFE’s web site.
  • Work collaboratively with staff and board to provide direction and leadership to the organization as a whole.
  • Attend staff and board meetings, participate in sub-committees and special projects as needed.
  • Participate in coalition work with partner organizations as needed to provide educational support for their economic justice campaigns.
  • Provide support for and periodic check-ins with UFE-trained educators & organizers to ensure sustained learning and impact.
  • Supervise Education Team interns and volunteers.
  • Respond to requests for information and educational support.
  • Track workshop evaluations and reports from the field through the database and filing system. 

Experience

  • Five to seven years experience in community-based education and/or organizing.
  • Previous experience designing and leading workshops that utilize Popular Education methods and principles, including a high level of participant engagement, problem-solving exercises, and dialogue.
  • Experience working in and with communities of color, as well as in a multi-racial, multi-lingual environments.
  • Experience working in support of grassroots organizing campaigns. 

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to work with diverse constituencies, and commitment to economic, racial, and gender equity.
  • Experience with learner-centered, democratic, transformational educational practices.
  • Ability to think creatively and develop interactive exercises that stimulate learning in new ways.
  • Experience conducting research using the Internet.
  • Excellent facilitation skills and ability to think and problem-solve in the moment.
  • Enthusiasm for building and maintaining relationships with grassroots leaders at the local, regional & national level.
  • Excellent team-building and interpersonal skills.
  • Fluency with a non-English language, a plus, and/or commitment to language justice.
  • Highly organized and able to work on multiple tasks within a specific time frame.
  • Willingness to travel on occasion (up to 25%).
  • Ability to work with Macintosh Operating Systems. Familiarity with FileMaker Pro (database), PowerPoint, and InDesign a plus.
  • A good sense of humor!

Salary and Benefits

$40,000 to $48,000 depending on experience. Very generous benefits, including full health care coverage of employees and their families, dental, employer-supported 401-K, MBTA pass and more.

How to Apply

Send cover letter, resume, and two (2) writing samples (include curricula if available) to <jobs@faireconomy.org> with “Education Coordinator” in the subject line.

Applications will be accepted until March 20, 2016 or until position is filled. People of color, women, low-income, LGBTQ+ strongly encouraged to apply.