Career Opportunities
Spanish Biliterate Community Organizer
Health Action Together: A Project of Community Partners
Time-Limited Community Organizer (Spanish Biliterate)*
Organization and Initiative Background:
The vision of Health Action Together is: A Sonoma County where a person’s skin color, zip code, or place of birth does not determine their health, education, or income. This work is guided by our values: equity at the center, upstream focus, community-led, integration and collaboration, and shared outcomes. Our work focuses on addressing inequities in our community by driving policy, institutional, and resource and investment changes and creating a model of change where community members most impacted by inequalities have a say in and lead policy, investment, and change efforts. The latest Portrait of Sonoma County Update 2021 revealed the many persistent and growing inequities in the health, education, and income of our community. Health Action Together is evolving its approach and establishing itself as an anti-racist community-led non-profit effort to help meet this need.
Position Summary:
The newly formed Health Action Together (HA Together) is seeking a Community Organizer (CO). This role will lead engagement and foster relationships with community members living in key neighborhoods of Santa Rosa and/or Sonoma County. The position is instrumental in fostering grassroot collaborative efforts to tackle urgent community needs and propel HA Together’s vision forward. The CE will collaborate closely with a wide array of partners, including community members, grassroots organizations, and government partners, to drive impactful community-led initiatives to address health inequities in Sonoma County. Additionally, the CE will engage with various public and private entities like schools, clubs, religious organizations, and others to cultivate non-extractive community partnerships.
As a member of the HA Together work team, the Community Organizer will model and advance equity, anti-racism, and healing-centered community engagement. The CE convenes community members and multi-sector partners to move forward policy and systems-level strategies (ex. Agenda for Action, Community-led Governance, and culturally responsive communications) by providing administrative capacity and support for virtual and in person office operations, including written communications and meeting coordination with community members and network partners.
Essential Functions of the Community Organizer Role
The Community Organizer must have working knowledge of office operations, good organizational skills, written and oral communications skills, including composition in English and Spanish. This position must have the ability to perform administrative tasks, provide excellent client service and foster working relationships with community partners and stakeholders. The CE will support relationship building, meeting coordination and facilitation, disseminating information, collecting and synthesizing information and data. Additional responsibilities include:
Develop and maintain relationships with community members, leaders, and organizations to understand their needs, priorities, and challenges.
Coordinate HA Together workgroup meetings, facilitate planning meetings, maintain meeting cadences, send agendas, taking notes, and sending meeting reminders.
Plan and coordinate HA Together’s strategic participation in community events and meetings; attend and participate in community outreach activities.
Serve as the primary point of contact for community members, addressing inquiries and fostering engagement.
Support general and email communications and data collection needs for Health Action Together programs and/or workgroups.
Support the office’s file system and help organize & archive office records, files, processes, etc.
The ideal candidate must be a self-starter and problem solver who is able to ground their work in anti-racist principles and brings:
A combination of lived experience and Community Health Worker (CHW) or other professional experience working with communities of color, low income, or communities on the margins of society, and the capacity to demonstrate cultural humility and healing-centered approaches in their work with different stakeholders.
A strong commitment and passion for social justice and an ability to apply these concepts in their work.
A sense of purpose, dignity, healing, and authenticity in their work with HA Together staff and partners.
A focus on self-healing necessary to successfully operationalize anti-racist values for HA Together.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience: Any combination of course work, training, work, volunteer experience, or other lived experience providing an opportunity to acquire qualifications listed below. This might include course work in a field like public administration, management, political science, economics, statistics, languages, psychology, or related fields; one year of full-time experience in a related field or other relevant lived experiences. Writing and thinking to compose routine correspondence to communicate clearly and clarifying wordage or sentence structure that does not necessitate review.
Equity: Basic understanding of race equity, especially as it pertains to community wellbeing and needs, which may also include lived experience. Commitment to anti-racism throughout the work and in the development of Health Action Together.
Technology and Customer Service Proficiency: Experience with email platforms, video & communications platforms, administrative office processes, and/or capacity to learn other relevant office management tools.
Cultural humility: Excellent customer service, working knowledge of local communities and the opportunities in each region of the county. Ability to understand cultural differences, recognize potential biases, and look beyond differences to work productively with communities and/or vendors on the margins (may include BIPOC, LGTBQ+, AFN, etc.*) of society. Expected culturally humble behavior includes modeling it, coaching it, inspecting it, and supporting it across Health Action Together’s work and with partners.
Desired Qualifications:
Biliteracy: Spanish Language a must. Proficient in oral and written Spanish and English languages**
Experience: De-escalation training or conflict resolution skills and experience with the Americans with Disabilities Act is a plus!
Salary Range:
The time-limited Community Organizer position is 10-15 hours a week for a salary of $35 per hour** and is provided through Community Partners.
Application Process:
Submit your resume or position interest letter describing your qualifications for managing the proposed essential job functions. Your application packet should be submitted via email to info@hatogether.org. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Health Action Together is a project of Community Partners and is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. In addition, the organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
*The acronym BIPOC refers to Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color; LGTBQ+ refers to Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual, Queer, and other identities; AFN refers to people with Access and Functional Needs like ability, literacy, etc.
**This recruitment is to fill a part-time & time-limited, Community Organizer position for Health Action Together. To fulfill this position as biliterate requires English and Spanish or another commonly spoken (in Sonoma County) language at a fluent (reading, writing, and conversational) level. Applicants who wish to be considered for this position must demonstrate their level of skill through a required examination to be conducted prior to employment to confirm the level of skill in this area. Biliterate premium pay is $2.00/hour per qualified and demonstrated fluent biliterate language skills in addition to base salary.