Outreach Specialist
Job description
Outreach Specialist (CHEW)
Reach Out is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that has been serving the Inland Region of Southern California since 1969. Reach Out’s mission is to strengthen communities by bringing people together to solve our region’s toughest issues: breaking barriers to education achievement, expanding economic opportunities, and creating safe, healthy, and innovative communities. Our aim is to be an effective, positive disruptor of the inequitable status quo. Our core work of strengthening communities takes many forms, from direct services to youth and families, to deep root cause work in building the health and quality of life in our region.
Reach Out is seeking team members who are passionate about building an equitable Inland Empire, and who recognize that, collectively with our partners, we will be the ones who will ultimately shift mindsets, policies and practices toward equity, justice, and prosperity for all our residents. We support the rights of immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, and persons living with disabilities. If you hold these same values and goals, Reach Out offers a stellar work culture, a rich benefits & retirement package, and the opportunity to use your talents to build a region where all can thrive.
BASIC POSITION FUNCTION
Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Outreach Specialist is responsible for developing networks among individuals, groups, organizations, and agencies through policy community-based approaches. This position is required to provide on-site services and/or outreach intervention in diverse, lower socioeconomic areas at various times of the day and evening.
- $23.01/hour
Benefits:
- Cost and no-cost options for health insurance
- Reach Out pays 100% of its employee’s dental, vision, and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid vacation time
- 12 days of paid sick leave per year
- 13+ holidays per year
- 403(b) retirement plan
- Reach Out matches after 1 year
- Professional development
- Work laptop provided
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct community outreach and presentations, increase community involvement and participation on key committees, organizations, and collaboratives in the Inland Empire.
- Establish partnerships with local agencies and neighboring cities, communities, businesses, food pantries, governmental officials, and school leaders.
- Work within contract/funding source guidelines/requirements (Riverside University Health Systems – Public Health).
- Provide nutrition education and increase healthy food access to community members and youth in the cities of Jurupa Valley, Moreno Valley, and Corona.
- Partner with program staff/volunteers and interns as needed.
- Collect data and enter outreach outcome statistics.
- Cross-department collaboration, training, and support.
- Create and maintain a creative, positive, sustainable, and supportive work environment.
- Ensures the adequacy of information delivered to the community and the provision of high quality, culturally sensitive referrals.
- Displays sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomics characteristics.
- Always performs work in a safe manner and abide by safety practices.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
MINIMUM ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS
Required Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of community engagement experience.
Preferred Education: Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university; or five years of community engagement experience.
Preferred Experience: Fluent Bilingual Spanish/English.
Knowledge of:
- Creative Thinking – Discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking.
- Innovation/Initiative – Using information from a variety of sources, identifying immediate action needed to address current issues, seizing the opportunity to enhance performance and advance horizontal/vertical goals. Attending to imminent issues while maintaining an awareness of emerging opportunities.
- Teamwork/Cooperation – Readily sharing information, knowledge, and personal strengths. Seeking to understand and building on different perspectives of others to enhance team efficiency and quality outcomes.
- Values and Ethics – Serving the agency with integrity and respect in personal and organizational practices. Includes respecting democratic, professional, ethical and people values. Building respectful, bilingual, diverse, and inclusive workplaces. Ensuring decisions and transactions are transparent and fair. Holding themselves, their employee, and their department accountable for their actions.
Ability to:
- Conduct outreach to culturally diverse communities.
- Work a flexible schedule including some evenings and weekends, if needed.
- Have sound organizational and time management skills to manage high and varied activity levels.
- Be an excellent representative of the agency to the community.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Have excellent organizational skills and an ability to manage and prioritize duties
- Effectively and successfully interact with individuals from diverse socio-economic/ethnic groups.
- Be proactive, flexible, creative, and have an enthusiastic attitude.
- Make sound judgments and follow and give complex directions.
- Work with diverse groups of stakeholders, including parents, children, and community officials.
- Work in a high paced high demand environment.
- Travel to and attend meetings throughout the counties in the Inland Empire.
- Annually attend out of State or County conferences per contract requirements.
- Speak publicly, give presentations, facilitate workshops, etc.
- Work with diverse populations.
Reach Out is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion or religious creed, disability or handicap, pregnancy, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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