Job description

Community Organizer
Full Time | $65,000

Working for Holy Cross Services isn’t just a job, it’s a mission! We believe in the safety and joy of family. Our work is family-focused, as are our benefits: Holy Cross offers free health insurance for our employees AND their family members.

The Community Organizer engages community members to further the mission of Holy Cross Services. This position is external-facing, with continuous public engagement. The Community Organizer seeks and leverages common interests among various target communities, in accordance with the agency strategic plan. The Community Organizer continuously expands community participation in the agency’s work to advance outcomes for those we serve.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all outreach activities uphold agency vision and values, with a strong commitment to equity, dignity of and partnership with the communities served.
• Routinely understands programmatic needs and details ways in which community members can reasonably contribute to specific initiatives across the agency.
• Travel extensively to communities across the state to engage various communities in HCS’s mission.
• Track and report on metrics related to community organizing.
• Recruit, train, and support community-based spokespeople to further the agency’s mission.
• Identify and facilitate ways various community groups can engage in the agency’s mission, including through voluntarism, sponsoring projects, participants, or holidays, in-kind contributions, advocacy, and other means.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of community outreach operations, including planning, implementation, and debriefing.
• Designs, leads, and reports on outcomes of focus groups with target communities to maximize outreach effectiveness.
• Trains Youth Advisory Councils (YACs) and Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) on self-advocacy and facilitates opportunities for community members to express their needs to local decision-makers.
• Manage communications with target community groups to further engagement in the mission.
• Survey the experience of community members to continuously improve engagement experience.
• Track and report on donations (time, materials, and/or funds) toward advancement targets.
• Continuously identify and engage new groups to partner with the agency.
• Develop and implement a statewide outreach strategic plan in partnership with the Director of Donor Engagement and the VP of Advancement.
• Oversee development of community organizing outreach materials in adherence to program requirements and agency branding, messaging, and values.
• Recruits, trains, and supervises events interns and volunteers.
• Identifies and cultivates relationships with potential future board members and/or high level donors.
• Participate in weekly supervision and continuous performance improvement with assigned supervisor.
• Conduct weekly supervision and continuous performance improvement/performance evaluations for assigned direct reports.
• Collaborate closely with all members of the advancement team and across agency departments.
• Performs other duties related to the essential duties of the position and within the individual’s capabilities as assigned by one’s supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a position-relevant field
• 3+ years of experience in community organizing or similar role
• Proven experience engaging successfully with a wide variety of populations
• Lived experience in child welfare or homelessness strongly preferred

Benefits:
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

• Employer-Funded Health Benefits
• Wellness Benefits
• Public Loan Service Forgiveness Program (Student Loan Forgiveness)
• Generous time off including paid holidays and personal days
• Employer paid short and long term disability & life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

HCS also offers employee-paid benefits at group rates:

• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Health Care and Dependent Care
• Voluntary Life Insurance (you, your spouse, and/or child(ren)
• Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness Insurance
• College Tuition Rewards Program

JOIN OUR TEAM & HELP BRING HOPE TO MICHIGAN FAMILIES!

Holy Cross Services maintains a policy of nondiscrimination regarding all employees. The Agency desires to handle all aspects of employment on the basis of merit, competence and qualification. Employment is not influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by law. The Agency makes all decisions with respect to recruiting, hiring, and/or promotions for all job classifications based on individual’s qualifications related to the requirements of the position. All other personnel matters, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, education and social/recreation programs, are to be administered free from any illegal discriminatory practices.

Holy Cross Services further recognizes that deep systemic inequities disproportionately overrepresent children of color and children who identify as LGBTQ within the child welfare system, yet underrepresent these populations within the child welfare workforce. Because we believe the people served must be centered in the work we do, applicants with lived experience in the child welfare system or homelessness, BIPOC applicants, and applicants who identify as LGBTQ are strongly encouraged to apply.

Additionally, Holy Cross Services acknowledges the studies indicating applicants of color and women applicants may be less likely than others to apply for a job without meeting 100% of the preferred qualifications. If you are passionate for this work and meet the minimum requirements, your application is welcomed.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 per year

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