Are you a bottom-up problem solver who is passionate about connecting people?

Are you energized by unlocking the potential for others to make a difference in their community?

Do you love organizing and facilitating change?

Serve & Connect is seeking a full-time Community Outreach Coordinator to supporting police and citizens in working together to develop locally-driven movements that tackle significant community challenges.

The Community Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for the following:

• Support team members in strategic networking with partner agencies serving communities where we have ongoing activities
• Create and implement a successful volunteer program for the organization
• Maintaining a calendar of outreach activities, including community events, workshops, appearances and other opportunities
• Assisting in the organization and implementation of special events
• Assist Project Managers with event promotion, including grassroots outreach, and ensure alignment with community culture and context
• Work with operations team to identify, develop, and implement strategic initiatives that build connections across partner communities
• Support implementation of Serve & Connect signature events, including community event series, Greg’s Groceries Packing Events, and Peace Walks
• Lead Feed An Officer programming in partnership with the Operations Team
• Support implementation of fundraising events
• Support development and maintenance of formalized partnerships with police and social service agencies and partners
• Work with operations team to develop strategic plan for community engagement and identify opportunities for synergies across sites
• Assist partners with community engagement
• Serve as a resource to partner agencies related to community organizing and engagement
• Represent Serve & Connect, as assigned, in a variety of public forums and social and civic functions and neighborhood events
• Attends meetings, seminars, and forums of interest to keep informed of changing trends or community dialouge. Monitors social media and media for information on converations relevant to our work in target communities.
• Maintains a database of community contacts
• Maintain database of volunteer network

An ideal candidate will:

• Have strong organizational skills
• Be a team player
• Have strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Have strong communication skills
• Be an out-of-the-box thinker
• Have strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Be available for occasional night and weekend work

Preferred qualifications include at least two years professional experience related to:

• Community Organizing
• Project Management
• Public Relations

Compensation and Benefits: $40,000-45,000 annual salary based on experience, plus competitive perks including, but not limited to:

• A supportive work community
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Medical/Retirement Stipend

About Serve & Connect: Serve & Connect is a South Carolina nonprofit organization with the mission of fostering positive change through sustainable police-citizen partnerships. We envision a future where police and citizens are working together as one community to address root causes of crime and promote safety so everyone thrives. We do not believe in us vs. them and seek to develop a new pathway for police and citizens to work together to tackle significant community challenges and promote healing and thriving. We were founded by Kassy Alia Ray in memory of her husband, Greg Alia, a police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 2015.

Serve & Connect Values

Serve & Connect is deeply grounded in our organizational guiding principles:

Empathy: Practice deep listening and seek to understand your teammates and all of our partners. Lean into courageous conversations that will build honest, open, and respectful collaboration.

Humility: Celebrate the successes of your teammates and our partners. Give credit to others. Be open to your own strengths and limitations. Embrace failing forward moments as opportunities to learn and grow. Be open to learning from others’ unique gifts, perspectives, and experiences.

Collaboration: Support and encourage your teammates to foster effective problem-solving. Allow your ideas and plans to be expanded and enhanced by others’ perspectives to increase mutual success. Elicit input in a way that fosters creativity and inclusion with the goal of magnifying impact.

Solutions-focused: Embrace open dialogue and engage the power of your teammates and partners to help overcome challenges and roadblocks. Tackle problems thoughtfully in a way that drives solutions. Be willing to step outside of your comfort zone to take on new challenges and skills that foster success in projects and initiatives.

Strategic: Make commitments carefully and keep them. Hold yourself accountable first, others second. Clearly communicate expectations. Establish a track record of getting the right things done.

Authenticity: Practice vulnerability with team members. Speak from your truth in a way that respects other people’s truth. Lean into conflict in a way that seeks mutually beneficial resolutions. Adapt collaborative projects to embrace the way others’ work. Support teammates when they show up authentically and meet them where they are.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This commitment applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person

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