Senior Community Engagement Coordinator

826 Boston • Roxbury, MA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

826 Boston seeks a creative team member with strong organizational skills to serve as the Senior Community Engagement Coordinator. We are seeking a candidate with a strong command of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles and approaches, who can build on the current strengths of the Volunteer Management Team, including robust training and support that center diversity, equity, and inclusion, collaborative partnerships with universities, and a culture of gratitude and appreciation. The coordinator will also support the Volunteer Management Team in cultivating and stewarding the individual volunteers that foster learning spaces that are student-centered, strengths-based, and promote inclusivity for the identities, experiences, and voices of LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and neurodiverse students. Mission: 826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is a team player with a steadfast commitment to improving the quality of K-12 education, including adopting antiracist/anti-oppressive approaches, with a desire to work in a collaborative and inclusive culture and a passion for youth empowerment through writing and publishing.
• 1+ years of experience working in a K-12 school, education, or youth development nonprofit
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering community, building a strong sense of team, and embracing values of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ability to give and receive feedback with humility, regulation, and tact
• Knowledge of and fluency with social and racial justice, intersectionality, BIPoC and LGBTQIA+ history, and historic/current systems of oppression
• Ability to incorporate anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices into analysis, planning, and programming
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Apps

Nice To Haves

• Experience with volunteer management and/or with direct volunteering preferred but not required
• Proficiency in Spanish, Cape Verdean or Haitian Creole, or Somali preferred but not required
• Experience with SalesForce or comparable database strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Support the Volunteer Program Manager in cultivating and stewarding a volunteer corps of 300+ individuals on an annual basis
• Build, cultivate, and manage strong relationships to maintain pipelines with university partners and community organizations that fuel Service Learning opportunities and Writing Workshops support
• Collaborate with program team members to develop and lead community-based recruitment events
• Oversee volunteer onboarding for all individuals, including leading one or two volunteer training sessions a month, coordinating pre- and post-training communication, recruiting individuals to attend training sessions via online postings, and tabling at events
• Support the Volunteer Management Team in partnering with program teams to develop supplemental trainings to meet the needs of students and interests of the volunteer corps
• Plan and execute volunteer appreciation events
• Lead and manage outreach efforts including but not limited to university partner visits, community fairs, which occasionally occur on nights and weekends
• Support in conducting CORI & SORI background checks and processing paperwork for volunteers
• Manage volunteer communications systems, including email, volunteer opportunity calendar and sign up tools like Salesforce
• Coordinate the administration and analysis of volunteer surveys, including training feedback, volunteer experience, and 826 National surveys
• Maintain volunteer records, track participation, and produce reports in our Volunteer Database, SalesForce
• Collaborate with Senior Manager of Volunteer and Community Engagement to track progress toward annual programming goals and report to the team on a biannual basis
• Conduct quarterly check-ins with program teams to identify and address volunteer needs in Writers’ Rooms & In-School Programs
• Support organization-wide summer programming
• Provide occasional support to programming as a tutor or staff coverage
• In collaboration with the Internships Manager, hire, train, and supervise 1-2 interns per semester

Benefits

• flexible work from home options
• generous paid time off (including 15 PTO days, accrued sick leave, 13 paid holidays, paid Birthday off, 6 Summer Fridays off, and an organization wide two-week winter break)
• health, dental, and vision insurance (826 Boston covers 80% of premiums)
• parental leave
• paid sabbatical

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed