Catholic Charities Community Services Careers

Description

Location: 34 W. 134th Street, NY

Salary: $60k-65k

Summary: 

Works closely with the Department Director, Program Manager and Supervising Attorney er to support the program’s outreach activities in the relevant community districts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Development and implementation of an effective outreach plan for communicating with communities about eviction prevention.
• Identify, develop, and maintain contacts with diverse representatives from several stakeholders in target communities such as community-based agency leaders, community social services providers, neighborhood associations, residents, and others.
• Works with the Supervising Attorney and Department Director to coordinate and engage in outreach activities, including researching agencies for homelessness prevention contacts, developing relationships with organizations in the community, and assisting in the development of new outreach methods.
• Contribute to the assessment of community assets and needs in preventing homelessness.
• Provide support to any additional outreach personnel and volunteers.
• Assist in the development of electronic and print communication materials such as list-serves, fact sheets, flyers, brochures, mailing lists, directories, and other related materials.
• Create and maintain a detailed work plan and report regularly on progress.
• Provide general assistance with administrative tasks such as follow-up telephone calls, mailings, photocopying, and faxes.
• Develop and participate as instructor for the CCCS Financial Literacy workshops.
• Attend Program meetings as directed. 
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in the field, bi-lingual English- Spanish preferred.

Skills, Licenses, and/or competencies required:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong organizational and computer literate.
• Ability to drive a vehicle and holding a driver’s license in good standing preferred.

• This is a full-time position.
• Days and hours of work are generally 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday - Friday.
• Additional weekend and evening hours may be required to meet agency deadlines.

Working conditions and physical demands required:

• The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to   successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• To conduct home visits and outreach within NYC at least 50% of the time, individuals will use public transportation or traverse city streets, occasionally ascend/descend stairs, and be exposed to outside weather conditions.
• Ability to work with the public.
• Ability to position boxes/items at different levels that weigh up to 25 lbs.
• Remain stationery at a workstation and use a computer at least 50% of the time.
• Potential to carry a laptop to offsite work locations.
  
  

Catholic Charities and Catholic Charities Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.