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Pratt Center for Community Development Seeks Planner (Brooklyn, New York )

About Pratt Center

Founded in 1963, The Pratt Center for Community Development works for a more just, equitable, and sustainable city for all New Yorkers by empowering communities to plan for and realize their futures. As part of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York, we leverage professional skills in planning, architecture and public policy to work on the ground with community-based organizations and to advocate for policy changes citywide. Our approach combines technical assistance, stakeholder organizing, and policy advocacy to support community-based organizations in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life, attack the causes of poverty and inequality, and advance sustainable development. Pratt Center uniquely integrates the perspectives of equity and community empowerment into the practice of the full range of urban planning disciplines – land use planning, housing and economic development, industrial retention, environmental regeneration, transportation, historic preservation, architecture, arts and culture, and more.

Employment Opportunity

Pratt Center currently seeks to add to its professional staff with a new Planner position. Working under the supervision and guidance of the Director of Policy, the Planner will be responsible for the design, implementation, and management of community-based planning Technical Assistance projects as well as other types of collaborations with local partners. The Planner will assist in the development of Pratt Center’s policy agenda and contribute to advocacy initiatives that address sustainable community development goals.

Position Responsibilities:

The Planner will have a variety of responsibilities, including:
– Managing community-based planning, policy and/or commercial revitalization projects, including the development of implementation schedules and report writing.
– Representing Pratt Center in meetings with community-based organizations, colleagues and clients; at general community and coalition meetings; and with other stakeholders, including elected officials and government agencies.
– Researching and assisting in the development of Pratt Center’s policy and advocacy initiatives.
– Collecting and analyzing original and secondary data for the development of reports and other products.
– Developing field and community assessment survey instruments and implementing their use in field.
– Collaborating with Pratt Center staff on community development, economic development, and sustainability projects.
– Supervising interns and staff as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:
Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Policy or related field; or equivalent work experience is required.

Experience:
At least three years of experience in urban planning-related projects, research and/or policy development, and/or experience working in community-based organizations in low-income communities/communities of color. Experience with community and/or political organizing, high level of comfort in group settings with diverse stakeholders, and some project management experience required.

Skills:
– Must have strong communication skills (written and verbal), and demonstrated community planning skills.
– Must be adept with Microsoft office products, and data manipulation and analysis; spatial visualization skills are a plus.
– Knowledge of community-based planning issues, including zoning and land use policy, is required.
– Knowledge of principles of diversity and inclusion, ability to work well with diverse populations, and demonstrated level of cultural competence is required.
– Familiarity with transportation, environmental justice, real estate development and affordable housing issues – as well as the New York City advocacy community working in these issue areas – is a plus.

Application Procedure:

Applicants should follow the link below to upload a cover letter, resume and three references:
https://prattedu.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=591&company_id=16145&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=992358&startflag=1

Questions may be directed to info@prattcenter.net. No phone calls or visits, please.

Salary is commensurate with experience. The position will remain open until filled.

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Shareable Seeks Development Manager, Online Giving

About Shareable

 Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but have a global reach through our online news site and activist network.

What is the Sharing Transformation? 

It’s a movement evolving from grassroots efforts to solve today’s biggest challenges. It’s emerging as a new way forward; it’s big, global, and impacts every part of society. 

Today, new circumstances have created an unprecedented opportunity to amplify cities as platforms for sharing. People are already acting on this opportunity. Driven by economic need and empowered by new technologies, they’re creating new, more resilient ways of providing food, jobs, housing, goods, and transportation for themselves and each other in cities. 

 This is the sharing transformation. It’s characterized by an explosion of practices such as carsharing, ridesharing, cooperatives, community farms, shared housing, shared workspaces and a multitude of new micro-enterprises made possible by platforms that connect supply and demand at the peer-to-peer level. 

Sharing is fun, practical, green, and perhaps most of all, it’s empowering. It enables us to experience and do things we never thought possible. We at Shareable can say this because we’ve experienced the sharing transformation ourselves. We are sharers. We’ve told the stories of sharers to millions of people from all over the world since 2009. We’ve seen this transformation time and again in people from all walks of life. It’s why we do what we do. It’s why we believe the sharing transformation is unstoppable. 

Position Overview:

We are seeking an innovative and results-driven Development Manager, Online Giving to lead all aspects of Shareable’s online fundraising efforts. The Development Manager, Online Giving will be the engineer of the development function and will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to build fundraising strategies that support long-term sustainability. Reporting to the Founder and Executive Director, the Development Manager, Online Giving will play a critical role on the team, bringing flexibility, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit to the organization. Shareable is a young organization with a small dedicated staff. This is a tremendous opportunity for a self-directed development professional to help shape the fundraising strategy as Shareable continues to grow. 

Responsibilities:

• In partnership with the Executive Director, create, implement and execute a robust fundraising plan that is reflective of Shareable’s goals.

• Serve as an engaging external ambassador of Shareable, helping to build a diverse portfolio of supporters, including individuals, foundations, corporations and  federal grants with a particular interest in identifying and cultivating relationships that will support the organization’s growth and brand awareness. 

• Track and evaluate the efficacy of fundraising activities in accordance with the strategic fundraising plan. 

• Help to develop an earned income stream for Shareable, exploring viable possibilities based on what’s credible in Shareable’s niche market, including a potential online membership program 

• Maintain excellent relations with donors through timely, positive communication and excellent customer service.

• Stay current on best practices in philanthropy, social media, and marketing; integrate best practices into fundraising activities.

• Become fluent in issues relating to the sharing economy in order to sell Shareable’s programs across diverse audiences in a way that’s compelling and engaging. 

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3-5 years professional experience with demonstrated success of developing online fundraising programs; additional experience with corporate and foundation giving preferred. 

• Superior interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills; demonstrated ability to conceptualize and describe needs in accessible and compelling ways. 

• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage a variety of project simultaneously.

• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience facilitating teams towards aggressive goals; experience managing volunteers is preferred. 

• Experience using Salesforce or NationBuilder a plus

• Ability to thrive in a small, innovative and entrepreneurial environment; experience or a high-level of comfort working on a virtual team is required

• Background in environment, economics, urban planning or other relevant mission-area preferred; demonstrated passion for the sharing economy required. 

• Some travel required if located outside of the Bay Area.

• Bachelor’s degree required. 

To Apply:

Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format, to Neal Gorenflo here. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Shareable offers a competitive salary and benefits, commensurate with experience and skills.  

Shareable is an equal opportunity employer.

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Not Alternative Offers Research & Writing fellowship with “The Natural History Museum”

Not An Alternative (NAA) is seeking a Fellow to assist with research and writing projects associated with our ongoing project The Natural History Museum–a mobile and pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature, yet are excluded from traditional museums.

The museum’s primary subject of study is the fossil fuel ecosystem–characterized by a complex set of interrelated feedback loops encompassing energy, politics, society, economics, and culture. We turn an anthropological gaze on traditional natural history museums as ideological habitats within this ecosystem.

The Research & Writing Fellow will help to compile a sort of “people’s history of natural history” for the museum, inscribed in descriptions of artifacts within our collection, exhibit labels, exhibition abstracts, catalogs, online blog posts, promotional materials, alternative tours of mainstream museums (part of our “docents gone wild” program), and other written outputs.

The ideal candidate has strong writing chops and a background in anthropology, Institutional Critique art practices, media/culture, history, political theory, or journalism (or some combination thereof). The ability to comprehend critical theory and translate it for a broad public / lay audience is important. Comfort in writing with metaphors (of science, ecology, anthropology, museology) as rhetorics or poetics a plus.

While this is a temporary fellowship (4-12 months), we are always eager to identify long-term collaborators. If there is mutual enthusiasm and time, additional projects could include authoring op-eds to be published in mainstream media, articles for art and/or museum studies or anthropology journals, curating and editing texts written by well-known scholars to be published on The Natural History Museum’s website, and collaborating on a forthcoming book.

How to apply: please email jobs@thenaturalhistorymuseum.org with the following: a cover letter, resume, and 3 writing samples demonstrating a range of writing styles for different audiences.

Deadline for applications: March 15th, 2016, but candidates are strongly encouraged to apply early. We aim to fill the position as soon as possible.

Location: NY, NY (could be remote)

Hours and Duration: ~20 hours per week. Duration flexible: 4-12 months.

Stipend: $800 USD per month. Academic credit may be possible depending on your institution.

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Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation Seeks Food Justice Organizer

NEBHDCo is seeking a self-motivated and deeply committed individual to fill the position for a Food Justice Organizer (Organizer). The Organizer builds on the NEBHDCo’s Communities for Healthy Food (CfHF) Bed- Stuy programs to increase program participation and awareness, cultivate resident leaders, build relationships with partners, and raise consciousness and action on food justice issues directly affecting Bed- Stuy residents.

Communities for Healthy Food at NEBHDCo is a holistic approach to bettering the food system in Bed-Stuy through five main program areas:

  • Urban Gardens and Farms: Three gardens/urban farms growing food for the pantry, a fourth food garden at our senior residence building, and an aquaponics facility in planning stages. Programming includes a paid youth internship and training program.
  • Advocacy and Community Building: Food Empowerment Education and Sustainability Team
    (FEEST) brings together youth to prepare and share delicious, fresh food and engage in social issues that affect them. Community events include film screenings, book signings and cooking events to identify leaders and encourage eating foods from scratch.
  • Culinary and Nutrition Knowledge Sharing: Programs that support community members to learn and teach culinary skills and nutrition basics. Graduates from Community Chef training lead cooking demonstrations and Adult and Family cooking classes.
  • Retail Work: Working with bodegas to increase healthy food options. Develop new retail options like farmer’s markets and food coops.
  • Good Food Jobs: In partnership with The Working World, workshops and entrepreneurial support for worker owned cooperative food businesses. Developing a Bed-Stuy cooperative council with partners, worker-owners, and resident leaders.

The Organizer works closely with CfHF and Community Programs staff to expand outreach and integrate political education into all programs. The organizer identifies opportunities for deeper issue analysis and for developing the leadership of program participants. With the CHFA, the organizer develops and works with an advisory committee made up of active participant-leaders that inform and guide CfHF strategic planning. The organizer develops and implements a range of strategies to reach more NEBHDCo tenants and area residents most impacted by food injustice.

Established in 1985, Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation (NEBHDCo) is committed to the preservation, development and management of affordable housing and homeownership opportunities; community and economic development initiatives and human services that effect social change in Central and East Brooklyn. NEBHDCo owns and operates 92 buildings comprising over 1,000 units of affordable housing. Our portfolio also includes 17 commercial storefronts and 8 gardens. NEBHDCo, through its Golden Harvest food pantry, has been a New York City Emergency Feeding partner agency since August of 1993.

Work Hours

Hours: Monday to Friday, 7 hour day/35 hour work week from 10am to 6pm. Occasional evening and weekend hours.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Outreach

  • Manage promotion of NEBHDCo’s Communities for Healthy Food (CfHF) programming to NEBHDCo tenants and community members, through social media, newsletters, online resources, door- knocking, events, flyers and meetings.
  • Create flyers and communications for all programs.
  • Regularly and actively participate in relevant community meetings related to food justice work inBed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and sometimes borough-wide.
  • Lead development and maintenance of Salesforce module for participant tracking.

Organizing

  • Engage community members in the development of CfHF priorities and programs annually
  • Create, plan, and deliver workshops with local residents to deepen analysis of food justice issues.
  • Develop and continually cultivate an advisory committee for CfHF programs.
  • Recruit and develop community leaders, seek to discover the skills, talents and interests of currentand potential leaders, and encourage shared leadership. Take potential leaders from observation to sharing in decision-making.
  • Build with community members shared issues analysis, skills, practice, and ongoing relationships.
  • Research and define the food justice organizing program at NEBHDCo through resident and partnerone-on-ones and meetings.

New Opportunities and Initiatives

  • Seeking out new opportunities, partnerships, and initiatives through networking and research and by attending conferences and meetings with stakeholders, strategic local and city-wide partners, government agencies and other support organizations.

Fundraising and Administration

  • Participate in fundraising efforts.
  • Track and report on all outreach and organizing activities – strategy, execution, and result.
  • Together with the CHFA, co-write both internal and funder reports.
  • Recruit and manage volunteers and interns.
  • Manage spending and tracking of annual outreach budget.

Education and Experience

  • Four-Year degree preferred, but not required.
  • At least 2 years’ experience in an organizing position and/or food justice projects. Moreemphasis will be placed on organizing skills and experience than on food systems knowledge, though the ideal candidate would have both.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Qualities

The elements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Fluency in the English language.
  • Excellent computer skills including the Microsoft Office suite.
  • Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite with the ability to design flyers.
  • Excellent interpersonal, community building, public speaking, and conflict mediation skills.
  • Excellent verbal and writing skills.
  • Ability to plan and facilitate experiential workshops and effective meetings.
  • An ability to communicate a racial and economic justice analysis, especially as it relates to the food system.
  • Ability to listen to and understand the needs of the low-income, diverse residents of Bed-Stuy.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team structure.
  • Ability to attend evening meetings and work on some weekends.
  • Highly dependable person.
  • Strong organizational ability, including ability to juggle multiple projects, meet deadlines, work hard, keep things moving, and maintain attention to detail.
  • Outgoing, confident, and engaging personality.
  • Ability to see opportunities for collaboration and cross-sectoral work.
  • A desire to have fun in the workplace, be reflective about the work with colleagues, and a determination to meet and surpass goals.

Additional Desired Qualifications

  • Bilingual in Spanish.
  • Database management – Salesforce preferred.

Salary

$45,000 annual salary

To Apply

Send a Cover Letter and Resume to: Bianca Bockman, Community Healthy Food Advocate, bbockman@nebhdco.org by March 2nd. Please write “Food Justice Organizer” in the subject line.

Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation (NEBHDCO) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to ensuring diversity in its workplace.

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Community Voice Heard — Gail Aska Policy Fellowship (Summer 2016)

Deadline for Application: February 17, 2016

Organization Description:

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a 20 year-old membership organization of low-income people working together to influence policy change around issues that impact low-income families’ lives.

We were started as a welfare rights organization and have since evolved to work more broadly on economic justice issues.  CVH uses a combination of strategies including base-building & mobilization, leadership development, direct-action, legislation promotion & advocacy, grassroots-driven research, media & public education, voter education & engagement, and coalition building to lead campaigns to win benefits for our membership of low-income families.

We have chapters across New York State – in New York City, Westchester, Orange, and Dutchess Counties.  Our main office is located in East Harlem/ El Barrio of New York City.

Fellowship Description:

The Gail Aska Policy & Research Fellowship is a full-time, 8 to 10 week fellowship from June through August, and is designed to support and develop the skills of a graduate level student to shape public policy and conduct constituent-driven research on issues affecting low-income communities. The fellowship is inspired by its namesake, Gail Aska, a founding member of Community Voices Heard, and aims to address the gap between public policy and research practitioners and those that are directly impacted by social, racial and economic justice issues.

CVH seeks an individual interested in bringing technical skills and expertise to the grassroots – someone wanting to support the development of policy from the ground up and anxious to fuse one’s policy/ research work with ongoing direct-action organizing campaigns. Policy and research work will be oriented around one or more of CVH’s five current organizational priority areas: a just social safety net, good jobs and access to them, truly affordable housing, sustainable and resilient communities, and a participatory democracy.

The position provides a unique opportunity to engage multiple strategies for assisting in moving campaigns forward:

  • Develop Policy Proposals: craft proposals for local policies and programs that support the advancement of low-income families and communities.
  • Conduct Research: conceptualize and carry out research on programs and policies impacting low-income families – can include both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis (with possible supervision of data gatherers).
  • Support Campaigns: work with community members and organizational staff to develop and implement campaign strategy to win policy proposals at city and state levels.
  • Provide Training to Community Members: develop and conduct trainings for community leaders on policy issues and processes.
  • Advocate for Change: participate in meetings with elected officials and governmental committees, and help prepare community members to do the same, to promote organizational policy proposals.

Qualifications:

  • Prospective candidates should possess the following qualifications:
  • Enrolled in public policy / administration, urban planning, social work, law or other relevant graduate program is required;
  • Demonstrated commitment to building long-term power for low-income people of color, their families, and their communities;
  • Excellent research, analytical, writing, and oral communication skills;
  • Experience in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, including facility with data analysis software, is preferred. Research design and project management experience is a plus. Previous exposure to action-oriented participatory research methodologies is an advantage;
  • Knowledge of policy issues affecting low-income communities of color and related to social justice, including affordable housing, poverty, public benefits, etc.;
  • Personal, lived experience with one or more of the issues/campaigns on which CVH works is preferred;
  • Spanish language skills desired but not required.

To Apply:

Please send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and names & contact information for three references by email to cvh@CVHaction.org.  Please put “Gail Aska Fellow” in the subject line.

CVH is an equal opportunity employer.  Women of color are strongly encouraged to apply.  For more information please check out our web page at: www.CVHaction.org.

Timeline:

The deadline for applications is February 15, 2016. Interviews will be conducted through mid-March 2016 and the Fellow will be selected by early April 2016.  The fellowship will begin in June and conclude in August.

Compensation:

$600/week for the 8 to 10 week fellowship.

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EBASE Seeks Program Coordinator for the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME) (Oakland, CA)

Exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of faith and the movement for economic, social, and racial justice

The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) has a 16 year track record of advancing economic, racial, and social justice by building a just economy in the East Bay based on good jobs and healthy communities. We address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances among community, faith, and labor to build power and create change with low-income workers and communities of color. FAME is a project of EBASE.

The Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME) is a network of clergy, spiritual leaders, and people of faith. Our mission is to educate, organize, mobilize our communities to stand with low-wage and immigrant workers. We seek policies that will sustain lives with dignity for workers and their families by improving wages, benefits, and working conditions.

POSITION SUMMARY

The FAME Coordinator is principally responsible for building, engaging, and organizing with the network of faith leaders and communities in campaigns and project work on workers rights, immigrant rights, and economic justice; collaborating with unions and community groups; helping develop faith-rooted campaign strategy, and program administration. The FAME Coordinator is also responsible for developing and sustaining FAME membership and sponsorship for events. The FAME Coordinator supervises organizers and volunteers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Recruitment, Network Coordination and Alliance- Building (40%) 

  • Recruit a diverse array of faith leaders and congregations from different religious traditions to educate them and meaningfully engage them in worker and immigrant justice campaigns, events,and actions.
  • Build FAME membership and fundraising of individuals and faith institutions.
  • Coordinate, collaborate, and organize with the FAME Steering Committee leaders.
  • Build relationships with other ministerial alliances, denominational leadership, and faith networks.
  • Execute programs that provide fellowship, inspiration and education for religious leaders and congregations that connect to existing FAME and EBASE campaigns.

Campaign and Project Strategy, Coalition Engagement (30%)
The FAME Coordinator works in coalition with workers rights and immigrant organizations to integrate faith-rooted organizing within campaigns.

  • Play leadership role engaging with worker rights, immigrant rights, and economic justice coalitions and campaigns that FAME engages.
  • Develop campaign plans and timelines with EBASE, FAME members, and coalition partners.
  • Work with EBASE and partners to ensure affected communities and faith communities are part ofthe organizing strategy and campaign plan.
  • Coordinate with other local and regional faith, worker, and immigrant rights networks (ex. ICIR,EBIIC, IWJ) to maximize effectiveness.

Staff Management, Program Administration and Communications (20%)

  • Supervise clergy, organizers and volunteers.
  • Leads program evaluation, planning, and budgeting.
  • Partner with Executive Director and Development Director on FAME membership drives and toprepare and edit foundation grant proposals and reports relevant to FAME.
  • Perform administrative and communications tasks, such as maintaining a database of contacts,sending action alerts, and communicating with members.

Organizational Development and Personal Administration (10%)

  • Participate in weekly staff meetings, internal trainings, strategic and annual planning,implementation and evaluation.
  • Support “all hands on deck” requests from EBASE campaign teams, including mobilization support,phonebanking, civic engagement and other activities.
  • Maintain personal organization systems (files, calendar, compliance with document retention &destruction policy).
  • Complete reimbursements, timesheets and lobbying reports. Support staff people in thecompletion of these administrative tasks.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Minimum of five years experience with program management.
  • Demonstrated organizing skills in building unity and motivating others to take action in acampaign and/or a congregational or ministerial environment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of religious institutions, commitment to organizing people of faith, andcomfort level in working with diverse faith traditions.
  • Experience in working with low-income communities and communities of color.
  • Commitment to economic and social justice.
  • Strong listening and persuasion skills.
  • Strong writing skills and ability to use word-processing and database programs.
  • Demonstrated ability to take initiative and show accountability to goals and workplans, with acommitment to work in team environment.
  • Willingness to learn new techniques, ideas and skills.
  • Position requires use of an automobile.
  • Proficiency in Spanish is preferable.The organization is willing to negotiate arrangements to accommodate existing ministerial commitments.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Competitive salary between $50,000-$60,000 a year depending on experience, plus a generous benefits package. EBASE provides an excellent working environment that encourages team work and recognizes high-quality work.

TO APPLY

PLEASE EMAIL COVER LETTER, RESUME, AND 3 REFERENCES BY FEBRUARY 26, 2016, TO:

Attn: Kristi Laughlin, Campaign Director at search@workingeastbay.org. Please send documents in Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf format with “FAME Coordinator Search” in the subject line. The position will be open until filled and starts immediately.

EBASE is an affirmative action employer, and strongly supports the social goals of affirmative action. We therefore make special efforts to recruit individuals from groups that are historically under-represented in professional environments, or that suffer from broader societal discrimination. Applicants from all faith traditions are encouraged to apply.