Now Accepting Applications for Community Organizer

St. Anthony Park Community Council is hiring a part-time Community Organizer.  This position will report to the Executive Director, but will also take direction from Committee Co-Chairs as needed for some activities.  Ideal candidate will be self-motivated, have excellent planning/organizational skills, and maintain a high level of professionalism with a positive attitude.

Part-time @ $15/hr.  Ability to work some evening and weekend hours required.

Job Responsibilities:

Program

  • Serve as ambassador and primary contact person to and for the neighborhood.
  • Identify issues of importance to St. Anthony Park and follow issues through civic, political, and neighborhood meetings. Inform Executive Director as needed.
  • Facilitate the flow of information between residents, businesses, neighborhood groups, and local levels of government per direction of Executive Director.
  • Manage participation by volunteers in all areas of the Council’s work.
  • Coordinate programs, activities, and events for projects as they arise.
  • Assist with grant reporting for programs you manage.
  • Manage interns assigned to programs you manage.

Committee Support

  • Support four committees: Land Use, Equity, Transportation, and Environment.
  • Confirm agendas with committee chairs at least 1 week in advance of meetings.
  • Send out meeting reminders with agendas (plus attachments such as variance request for Land Use) three days in advance of meeting dates.
  • Communicate with committee guests as needed, provide agendas.
  • Print any materials for distribution at the meetings.
  • Send out minutes after meetings with action item summary.
  • Follow up on action items with appropriate contacts, including sending resolutions from the Board, check in on committee actions as needed.
  • Confer with committees on grant opportunities that arise within their topic areas.
  • Maintain official committee records, including agendas and minutes.

Communication

  • Write, edit, and send a monthly enewsletter on the 15th of every month, featuring local organizations/projects (including Community Garden, Transition Town, SAPAS, other partners), updates from committees and Board, neighborhood events. Maintain newsletter archive on the Council website.
  • Write and submit Council news to the Bugle by the first week of the month for the following month’s issue.
  • Post notifications to social media accounts and neighborhood lists (Yahoo, Nextdoor) for all committee and Board meetings and special events.
  • Maintain the Council website with events, committee meetings/agendas and project information, archives of committee and Board minutes.

Administration

  • Stay current with technology, perform or request updates to website and computers systems/software, and assure adequate and secure backups are maintained.
  • Maintain multiple email accounts.

Experience:

  • BA/BS Degree in human resources/organizational development/business management or related degree area /or 4 or more years of progressively responsible leadership experience in community development, and/or diversity and inclusion
  • Experience in meeting and event management required and a proven ability to successfully organize events is highly desirable
  • Proficient in MS Office, Word Press, and Mail Chimp
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrated capacity to take initiative and work with a high sense of urgency
  • Outstanding thought leadership and passion for diversity and inclusion; demonstrated effectiveness leading diversity and inclusion related initiatives and programs is a plus
  • Excellent project management, analytical and organizational skills
  • Able to work collaboratively and proactively, while balancing a variety of priorities and workload
  • Demonstrated experience using facts and analytics to understand trends and develop solutions that lead to measurable impact on an organization
  • Be able to enhance diversity and inclusion in the Community Council to support the strategic growth of the nonprofit

Preferred Qualifications: Skills in social media, fundraising, community engagement a plus.

How To Apply:

Send cover letter and resume to kathryn@sapcc.org.

Please indicate Community Organizer in the email subject line and within your cover letter.

Position is open until filled.

No phone calls please.

SAPCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.