Community Engagement Assistant
About The Position
The Community Engagement Assistant maintains CWS relationships with local faith-based and community organizations and individual volunteers to support programming in the local office. The role helps grow and diversify community engagement through targeted outreach and partnerships with faith-based institutions, institutions of higher education, local community-based organizations, and individual community volunteers. The position supports community outreach, volunteer recruitment and management, and event planning. It also contributes to the local office’s communication outreach strategy and related grant proposals, and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- Three years of previous work experience in nonprofit, social justice, community development, and volunteer management work.
Responsibilities
- Maintain relationships with local partners, including faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and community-based organizations.
- Create or update educational materials, with support from the local office, to help community partners raise awareness about refugee, immigrant, and asylum-seeker issues.
- Conduct presentations and other speaking engagements for faith-based organizations, higher education institutions, community-based organizations, and client communities about CWS services and client needs, and to increase CWS visibility.
- Encourage local community organizations and businesses to engage with the CWS local office by coordinating group volunteering, corporate sponsorship, and targeted fundraising opportunities.
- Educate refugee and immigrant service providers through training and presentations.
- Maintain and grow a volunteer base through outreach to individuals, organizations, groups, colleges and universities, and corporations while advancing individual and group partnerships.
- Assist with onboarding new volunteers through outreach, recruitment paperwork, initial orientation, and accurate volunteer records in the CWS volunteer tracking database; produce materials and presentations as needed.
- Match volunteers to CWS programs and clients based on program needs and volunteer interests, consulting with program staff, clients, and assigned volunteers to ensure tasks are completed according to CWS standards.
- Consult with individual volunteers, community-based groups, refugee clients, and case managers, and guide stakeholders to ensure positive interactions.
- Assist with planning and attending special events and recruit volunteers to support them.
- Help the office director and/or development staff identify opportunities to increase volunteer financial giving, such as monthly donor programs.
- Follow the CWS local office communication outreach strategy, including contributing to relevant grant proposals related to local office programming.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- 403(b) retirement plan
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous paid time off: 18 paid days off, increasing to 24 days after two years
- 14 official holidays
- 12 sick days off, accrued monthly
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Long-term and short-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
