Hester Street is seeking an experienced development and/or communications professional to lead our public affairs and development team and serve as a senior leader in the organization as we scale the reach and impact of Hester Street’s innovative work in New York City and nationwide. We are looking for someone with at least 6-10 years of work experience to join a growing, dynamic organization that holds social justice as a core value.

ABOUT HESTER STREET

Hester Street (HST) is an urban planning, design and development nonprofit that works to ensure that neighborhoods are shaped by the people who live in them. We offer technical and capacity-building assistance to community-based organizations, private firms and government agencies on critical land use, neighborhood planning, and public and private community development projects. Innovative, inclusive community engagement is a critical thread through all of our projects. We work to create vibrant, just, equitable and resilient cities where we all can thrive.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Director of Public Affairs & Development is responsible for scaling the reach and impact of Hester Street’s innovative work by cultivating and expanding a broad range of supports (small and large donors, foundations, governmental partners), generating coverage of HST’s approach and project work (in media, at conferences, in the planning/design/urban development field, and beyond) and supporting HST as we change the broader public narrative around inequity, the innovative power of community-driven planning and development, and what’s possible in our cities.

The Director will work closely with HST leadership, and serve on its Senior Leadership Team, to creatively and strategically raise and scale the resources needed to meet HST’s mission. The Director will supervise existing staff and help build out the team HST needs to maximize its impact in the public arena. The Director will have a clear and deep understanding of HST’s political vision, theory of change, and front-line programmatic work — and will be a fast-study on the technical aspects of HST’s work if they do not possess existing expertise.

The Director needs a track record demonstrating innovative thinking and high impact execution, as well as strong writing skills and success building and managing effective teams in a fast-paced, results-oriented work environment. The Director will have a lot of autonomy, room for innovation and creativity in execution of the position’s core responsibilities. This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated development professional who welcomes work in a collaborative environment to join a growing, high-energy team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Development/Fundraising Strategy + Implementation Oversight

• Create and execute a comprehensive fundraising/development plan and strategy;
• Cultivate existing and identify and secure new sources of funding;
• Oversee and contribute to the research, drafting, and submittal of grant proposals, RFPs, and relevant reports;
• Manage and track annual development priorities;
• Oversee the successful coordination of HST’s fundraising and external facing events throughout the year.

Communications

• Communicate Hester Street’s approach and project experiences with a wide range of partners, contributing to the broader urban planning and community development fields;
• Oversee the development of standard and innovative communication materials for print, web and social media;
• Create and manage the implementation of a comprehensive communications plan;
• Draft and/or approve content for internal and external communications.

Leadership

• Serve on HST Senior Leadership Team;
• Contribute to the vision and strategic direction of the organization;
• Liaise with HST Board members as necessary for fundraising and communications issues;
• Manage existing staff and build out a highly skilled and well-rounded public affairs and development team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least seven years of development and/or communications experience;
• Excellent writing skills;
• Demonstrated success in securing institutional funding, planning fundraising events and/or developing effective campaigns.
• Media – online, print and social – experience;
• Pro-active, deadline-oriented and expert at juggling multiple projects;
• Experience managing staff;
• Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and practiced at developing innovative approaches and exercising strategic, out-of-the-box thinking;
• Experience working in low-income communities, immigrant and other communities of color and/or with community-based organizations preferred;
• Graphic design skills using InDesign and other Adobe Creative Suite programs a huge plus;
• Language skills other than English, a huge plus.

Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, Hester Street offers a comprehensive benefits package.

To Apply

Please upload cover letter, résumé and two work samples (one grant proposal and one communications piece preferred).

Hester Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce that reflects the populations with whom we partner. We seek to build an inclusive organization grounded in respect for differences and encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability or veteran status.

Hester Street is a nonprofit organization incorporated as Hester Street Collaborative, Inc

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Hester Street is seeking an experienced urban planner, designer and/or community development professional to plan, manage and implement community-driven planning, design and development projects in New York City and nationwide. We are looking for someone with at least five years of work experience to join a growing, dynamic team that holds social justice as a core value.

ABOUT HESTER STREET

Hester Street is an urban planning, design and development nonprofit that works to ensure that neighborhoods are shaped by the people who live in them. We offer technical and capacity-building assistance to community-based organizations, private firms and government agencies on critical land use, neighborhood planning, and public and private community development projects. Innovative, inclusive community engagement is a critical thread through all of our projects. We strive to create the conditions where we can all thrive.

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are looking for an urban planning, design and/or community development professional with a background in neighborhood planning, architecture, economic development, affordable housing and/or community facility development, or some combination of the above. This role requires the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated planning, community development or design professional who welcomes work in a collaborative environment to join a growing, high-energy team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all aspects of community planning projects inside and outside NYC;
• Collaborate with community-based partners on project development and planning;
• Facilitate community planning and design workshops and train workshop facilitators;
• Work with Hester Street team of designers and planners to develop innovative community
• engagement tools;
• Pull together and manage teams of architects, planners, public health experts and other
• consultants;
• Effectively prioritize, delegate, execute and track tasks across multiple projects, adhering to rigorous timelines;
• Carry out key planning, design and development technical work (such as conducting planning studies, developing surveys, creating maps, gathering data and conducting site-specific and neighborhood-level analyses, developing innovative recommendations or solutions);
• Communicate Hester Street’s approach and project experiences with a wide range of partners, contributing to the broader urban planning and community development fields.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least five years of planning, architecture and/or community development
• experience;
• Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Architecture or a related field (or at least six years of experience in a relevant field);
• Pro-active, deadline-oriented and expert at juggling multiple projects.
• Project Management skills:
  • A track record of creating and executing complex multi-faceted project work plans;
  • Creative and nimble problem-solving skills with ability to adapt work plan execution to fit evolving project needs;
  • Ability to build relationships with partners across nonprofit organizations, government and the private sector;
  • Experience effectively delegating tasks to project teams, including to staff members, interns or outside consultants.
• Experience working in low-income communities, immigrant and other communities of color and/or with community-based organizations preferred;

Top candidates will have 2 or more of the following skills & experience:

• Urban Planning
  • Demonstrable experience working on one or more city, neighborhood or community planning processes;
  • Research, data gathering and analysis;
  • Spatial planning;
  • GIS mapping a huge plus.
• Architecture/Design
  • Architectural design and programming – participatory design experience a plus;
  • Spatial and site-specific analysis;
  • Basic before and after site photocollage visualizations
  • Proficiency with the programs we use –SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop a plus.
• Community Development – Capital project planning & development
  • Feasibility analysis;
  • Budget creation and tracking (project, construction, maintenance + operating);
  • Construction management experience a plus
• Facilitation
  • Ability to facilitate small group and large public meetings;
  • Experience navigating challenging conversations and building consensus;
  • Experience developing and using popular education tools and conducting train-the-trainer sessions preferred;
  • Fluency in a language other than English a plus;
• Graphic Design
  • Infographics, report layout and other graphic design skills using InDesign and other Adobe Creative Suite programs

Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, Hester Street offers a comprehensive benefits package.

To Apply

Please upload cover letter, résumé and two work samples (one written sample and one relevant presentation preferred). The position will be open until filled.

Hester Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a workforce that reflects the populations with whom we partner. We seek to build an inclusive organization grounded in respect for differences and encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability or veteran status.

Hester Street is a nonprofit organization incorporated as Hester Street Collaborative, Inc.

Rise with us! Be part of an organization whose mission is to unleash the potential of communities to thrive, no matter the odds. Since its inception, RiseBoro has collaborated with community leaders, government agencies, and private investors in an effort to serve as a comprehensive housing, health, and services agency for communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment in their housing stock and human capital. With a housing department staff of over 150 employees and an agency staff of nearly 2,000, RiseBoro has grown from a small community-based agency to one of the largest nonprofits in Brooklyn. RiseBoro has been responsible for the development of several thousand units of affordable housing, ranging from single-family homes to scattered site rehabs to large mixed-use developments. We have an exciting pipeline of affordable housing projects in the predevelopment and construction stages, which will create over 5,000 units of housing across New York City.

See full job posting here.

Karp Strategies is an urban planning strategy consulting firm that builds stronger communities and thriving cities. We partner with our cross-sector clients to identify their unique needs and provide tailored solutions. We take analysis to action to allow our clients to make better decisions – and ultimately, to build stronger communities and better cities. We deeply value our holistic analytic methods, and maintain strong core values that equity and upside can go hand in hand when working on planning and development projects. We work on projects around the country, with projects currently underway or starting across the NYC region, Atlanta, and greater Boston. Our team works at the sweet spot where data, people, and place intersect: we strive to understand what drives change in places, and how people, businesses, and institutions exist and can thrive within that change.

Karp Strategies celebrated five years in June 2020, and we’ve grown tremendously since inception from one person to a team of 14. Due to COVID-19, we are working remotely through 2020 with the hopes of returning to our offices in Manhattan’s Financial District in 2021. This position will be fully remote, with access to tools to ensure great remote work, and could change to in-office in 2021 if safety and health circumstances change. We value and celebrate diversity and inclusion in our team. Karp Strategies is active in the field: our team members are involved with APA-NY’s Urban Design and Diversity Committees, ABNY, IEDC, NYBC, CoreNet, OHNY, RPA, Coro, ULI….let’s just say we are plugged into the action and keep our finger on the pulse.

With current projects ranging from economic and community development planning initiatives to stakeholder analysis and engagement, from infrastructure feasibility and resiliency studies to real estate advisory, Karp Strategies is working with many of the industry’s most dynamic partner firms and clients on pressing, timely challenges facing the country, region, and our city.

As our company kicks off additional projects, we seek to meet thinkers and doers interested in joining us who care as much about urban change and neighborhoods as we do. Karp Strategies is actively interviewing for a PT Graduate Analyst (Graduate Student Intern). Graduate Analysts support projects through research and writing, data analysis and visualization, engagement/facilitation support, and through supporting business development and marketing initiatives.

Learn more about this position and how to apply here.

Athena and ILSR are looking for an organizer to support and develop the leadership of small businesses and consumers to win policy changes that check Amazon’s outsized power and address rising corporate concentration across the economy.

Athena is growing a high-impact field support team, recruiting both Lead Organizers and Online-to-Field Organizers to support the coalition’s mission and its members.

This position is housed at an Athena member, the Institute for Local Self Reliance. The position reports day-to-day to Athena’s campaign director and is focussed on developing the small business organizer program at ILSR, with support and guidance from ILSR staff, and the consumer organizing program at Athena.

This position is national and can be either remote & based anywhere, or (post-Covid) based in one of ILSR’s offices in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, or Portland, Maine.

About Athena — Athena works on delivering democracy by taking on a primary impediment to a democracy that represents us all and an economy that works for everyone: Amazon.com. We are a growing coalition of local, state-wide, and national organizations tackling the corporation’s nefarious size, power, scope and operations, in particular: antimonopoly remedies; local and regional governance; data abuse, especially the racism of surveillance technologies; environmental and climate (in)justices; and working conditions. More about our coalition is at www.athenaforall.org  

About the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) — ILSR is a national research and advocacy organization working to reverse corporate concentration and advance policies to rebuild the economic power and capacity of local communities. Our work illuminates the public policy decisions that have fueled concentration at the expense of local businesses, working people, and communities. It also shows how we can change the rules to create a more equitable, sustainable, and democratic future. We partner closely with a broad range of allies to move these ideas and policies. More at www.ilsr.org

Job Responsibilities: We are seeking an online-to-field organizer focussed in two groups, small business and consumers to:

• Build a broad base and strong leadership of small business owners affected by Amazon and other monopolistic company business practices to accomplish the goals of ILSR, support one another, and advance policy and industry change campaigns through ILSR and Athena. This is an online-to-field organizing model that includes online social media communities, peer to peer texting, and field outreach.
• Coordinate and develop an existing table of leaders of local and national small business organizations.
• Develop and build leadership committees to drive small business public policy campaigns through an inclusive process that develops their organizing and advocacy skills, generates bold actions, moves policymakers and educates the public.
• Build a broad base and strong leadership of people who shop at or are affected by Amazon’s business practices to accomplish the goals of the Athena coalition, to support each other, to enforce their rights, advance policy and industry change campaigns through Athena member organizations and the coalition overall. This is an online-to-field organizing model that includes online social media communities, peer to peer texting, and field outreach.
• Work with ILSR staff and Athena staff to  organize actions, press events, and prepare communications materials such as testimony for public hearings, op-eds, and talking points.
• Develop the leadership of people to share their stories with each other and publicly, with the media and online.
• Participate in strategy development and planning to grow the organizing program and advance campaigns.
• Build meaningful partnerships with community and policy allies to support campaigns, our members, and core organizing work.

Qualifications:   

• Minimum 3 years organizing campaign experience, ideally with in person organizing and using digital strategies.
• Strong writing, research and communication skills.
• Strong listening, persuasion and facilitation skills.
• Ability to relate to and work with diverse groups of people as well as an understanding of the daily challenges faced by low-income communities of color.
• Ability to work independently, navigate obstacles, discern priorities, meet competing deadlines and handle multiple projects.
• Strong database management skills that inform analysis of the base and strategy.
• Familiarity with digital strategies and online to offline organizing is a plus.
• Ability to work varied hours including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Spanish fluency is a plus.

Salary Range: $46,000 to $65,000 annually depending on experience and location.

Position includes 100% employer-paid health plan (family coverage & you pay no premiums); generous vacation, holiday, and parental leave; and a retirement plan with a matching contribution. We are a dynamic and friendly team dedicated to making the world a better place. ILSR takes professional growth seriously.

ILSR is deeply committed to equity and inclusion. We’re an equal opportunity employer, and we strongly encourage people of color, people with disabilities, women, non-binary candidates, and LGBTQIA+ candidates to apply.

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The Green Workers Alliance is a project of the Partnership for Working Families that will organize current and potential workers in green jobs. Together, we win a green stimulus big enough to take on the twin crises of environmental injustice and economic inequality that have been particularly devastating in Black and brown communities.  We are a strong worker-led voice supporting the Green New Deal, a Just Transition and the fight against structural racism in the workforce.  We will be organizing initially online and on the ground in Virginia in the near future.

We are seeking a Lead Organizer to engage in experimental organizing during this time and eventually build out our field staff.

In this moment of history we see our work as being vital to organize not just those currently employed in the green sector but also some of the millions of newly jobless and underemployed workers to demand a massive green stimulus. This must include access to green jobs and paid training for everyone, with an emphasis on reducing the huge income disparities between white workers and workers of color, especially African American workers.

Responsibilities

The Lead Organizer will head up our organizing efforts to build a membership base, develop leadership, and ensure that member voices are leading on our decision making and campaign work.  The Lead Organizer is the one who ensures that we are building a mass-based organization.  The ideal Lead Organizer will have a mix of both worker organizing and digital experience.  The Lead Organizer is responsible for engaging in outreach experiments to green workers and those who aspire to work in the field.  Responsibilities include:

• Solicit membership through a combination of on-line and eventually workplace and home visits.
• Develop organizing skills of members.
• Identify, recruit, train and develop leaders.
• Develop various communication systems to effectively reach members and providers.
• Work to build coalitions with environmental, labor and community organizations.
• Mobilize, turn out and engage membership
• Train and supervise new organizers
• Help co-create the internal participatory membership engagement processes
• Co-create and scale up the digital organizing strategy.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• At least five years of experience in organizing and management
• Spanish fluency strongly preferred
• Campaign planning experience, both labor and community side
• Ability to lead a diverse team
• Experience working through a racial equity lens
• Ability to both think creatively and implement effectively.
• Work effectively in team settings, as well as independently.
• Effectively prioritize and multi-task assignments and responsibilities.
• Willingness to work long and irregular hours, often including nights and weekends.
• Willingness to travel, as soon as it is safe to do so.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license, auto insurance that covers business driving, and an automobile for business use.

Compensation and Location

This is a full-time position. We offer a competitive starting salary at $55,000 to $72,000 (depending on experience) and generous benefits, including covering full health benefit premiums (health, dental and vision) and a 401k plan with an employer contribution

The position will ideally be located in Northern Virginia, but we will consider exceptional candidates who are located elsewhere.

To Apply

Please send a letter of interest, resume, and a list of 3-4 professional references including at least one supervisor. Send all application materials to  and include “Lead Organizer Position” in the subject line. No phone calls, please. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The Partnership for Working Families is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women and gender non-binary people, people of color including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender/gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.