Education and Community Development Manager, Nueva Esperanza

Posted by on September 17, 2012

Education and Community Development Manager, Nueva Esperanza

Posted on: August 20, 2012

Esperanza seeks a candidate for the positions of Education and Community Development Manager. The ECDM will be responsible for working with the HPC and NeighborCare Teams to develop an education and community communications infrastructure across Hunting Park. The ECDM will make connections between service organizations and services offered, finding gaps and filling in needs by linking organization providing complementary services, building horizontally across the community creating a safety net designed to capture, connect, and reconnect all Hunting Park residents to an economic or education system. Essential duties and skill include:

Recruit teams of residents for “NeighborCare” a formal process of outreach and engagement emerging from this plan, to acknowledge, catalogue, and build on the social capital within Hunting Park;
Coordinate all the meetings and activities for the Hunting Park Collaborative (HPC) and NeighborCare Teams, ensuring that communication among services institutions, businesses, and other neighborhood groups is well established;
Develop and implement community-wide revitalization metrics to measure the effectiveness and results of program/plan activities;
Manage, in conjunction with the HED Executive Director, all administrative aspects of the Wells Fargo Implementation funding, including purchasing, record keeping, budget development, accounting, assisting with the preparation of reports to funding agencies, and supervising consultants;
Establish, in conjunction with the HPC and NeighborCare Teams, development strategies focused around support to local community initiatives, specifically education initiative, and utilize the community’s human and economic resources;
Maintain data systems to track the progress of the Road Map and HPC towards project outcomes;
Assist the Executive Director with fundraising, special events, marketing, and public relations;
Develop templates to aid organizations in supporting Neighborhood Plan implementation costs associated with best practices;
Coordinate program logistics within time requirements with attention to detail and budgeting concerns. Respond to grant requirements regarding timely completion of deliverables;
Additional duties as assigned;
Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree, preferred; no preference in major; however, education, public policy, communications, nonprofit leadership, or a related area of study will be helpful in this field;
Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail and accuracy, including the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize accordingly;
Computer proficiency with a strong understanding of Microsoft Word and Excel;
Excellent written; interpersonal and communications skills;
Spanish speaker preferred.

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