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Education and Leadership Development Organizer Jobs in San Francisco, California, USA at Dolores Street Community Services
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Education andLeadership DevelopmentOrganizer
Program:Housing Rights
Compensation:$50, Full-time. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, paid holiday, paidsick leave, generous vacation with Summer Recess and Winter Recess, and 401(K) with employer matching.
Reports to:Housing Rights Program Manager
To apply:Resumes submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.
About the Organization:
Mission Action has been growing rapidly, therefore, we have created a lot of new positions in different programs. Please consider joining our team to serve the communities. Mission Action nurtures individualwellnessand cultivates collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society. As a multi-issue, multi-strategy organization, we work to improve lives on an individual level as well as affect broader social change by engaging inadvocacyand community organizing.
We work together across programs to address homelessness, lack of affordable housing, and to support immigrant rights in order to meet the complex needs of our communities and collectively address the root causes of suffering and injustice.
Program and Position Summary:
The Housing Rights Program works to improve living conditions and empower tenants living in the Mission District and other districts populated by the Latinx community and other marginalized folks in San Francisco. Through a variety of direct services and organizing methods, including but not limited to case management and stabilization, multi-service referrals,leadershipandadvocacytrainings, and supporting the formation of tenant associations.
The Housing Rights Program consists of two main components, the Mission SROCollaborative(MSROC) and the Tenant Counseling program.
MSROC focuses specifically on conditions andadvocacyin Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels in the Mission District of San Francisco. TheCollaborativeis comprised of Mission Action as the lead agency and fiscal agent, and includes the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, and the Women’s Community Clinic as partner agencies. MSROC is also part of the SRO Families UnitedCollaborative(SROFU), a citywidecollaborationof community-based organizations in Chinatown, South of Market, the Tenderloin, and the Mission that serves families with children who live in hotels.
The Tenant Counseling program is a newer arm of Missing Action Housing Rights work that extends services beyond the Mission to reach community members living in other districts such as the Excelsior, where many displaced Latinx and immigrant tenants have settled. The program focuses on providing case management, stabilization, and referral services to tenants in a variety of housing situations in these various districts.
The TenantEducationandLeadership DevelopmentOrganizer is responsible for leading the educational and tenantleadership developmentaspects of the program, including training development, facilitation, and logistics. The Organizer will also provide supervision to peer outreach participants.
Position Responsibilities:
Coordinate tenantleadership developmentprogramming, trainings, and other related events
Serve as the lead trainer for theleadershipprograms, including the current annually held PromotorxsLeadershipAcademy (PLA)
Lead the recruitment & interviewing process for prospective program pa…
Title: Education and Leadership Development Organizer
Company: Dolores Street Community Services
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Category: Non-Profit, Social Work
