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Form of workThe Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Health Against Tobacco (API-CHAT) is looking for a Community Engagement Coordinator to join the team. The Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC) will work with civic leaders, community members, and stakeholders to increase awareness regarding tobacco control policies and tobacco's effects on health, that especially affect the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community (AANHPI). This is a temporary position from November 2023 to approximately February 2024, working 20 hours a week.
Benefits
- Compensation of $30-$35/hr DOE
- 16 BACR holidays
- Sick leave
Minimum Qualifications
- Be able to speak, facilitate meetings, and conduct outreach in AANHPI language, preferably Chinese or Hindi.
- Passionate about public health, social change, and/or tobacco control policies.
- Willingness and ability to travel across Bay Area required
- Willingness and ability to work some nights and weekends
- Proficient in social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and others.
- Self-starter taking initiative with responsibilities, adherent to deadlines, and works well in team structures
Preferred:
- Experience working with diverse populations and individuals with strong ties to the AANHPI community
- Experience working with the community in Danville and/or Hercules.
- Experience with presentation, teaching and/or training
- Experience with outreach and/or recruitment
Responsibilities
CEC will work with the Project Director (PD), interns and subcontractors, to educate and/or outreach to the AANHPI community, local health policy leaders, stakeholders and civic leaders. CEC will coordinate, facilitate, and attend trainings and workshops on tobacco control policies and community organizing skills. This position will assist the PD and Project Evaluator to collect data, record and document activities and assist in preparing progress reports. Maintain APICHAT's social media.
SPECIFIC DUTIES:
- Recruit and outreach to the AANHPI community and other stakeholders
- Outreach at community events, such as farmer's markets and other local events
- Coordinate and facilitate trainings, workshops and events for stakeholders in tobacco control policies, in English and another AANHPI language (Chinese or Hindi)
- Attend and participate in meetings and events with local and statewide tobacco control staff
- Maintain APICHAT's social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube or other appropriate sites per year and promote cessation services, tobacco issues and policy, and APICHAT's activities.
- Work with PD and project evaluator to implement and coordinate evaluation of workshops, presentations, public opinion surveys, key informant interviews and observation surveys
- Record and document activities, collect data for evaluation and assist in preparing routine reports
- Design and adapt materials in AANHPI language (preferably either Chinese or Hindi)
- Other responsibilities as assigned by the PD
- Generally, and independently work from home, unless attending meetings and during outreach events. About once a week, an in-person attendance is required at the BACR office in Richmond.
About Us
BACR is a nonprofit organization supporting individual and community development throughout the Bay Area. Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Health Against Tobacco (API-CHAT) is a project within BACR. API-CHAT aims to work with the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community to promote healthy environments that protect our community. The tobacco industry targets AANHPI communities through deceptive marketing, higher tobacco retailer density and lower prices in communities of color, and the creation of culturally familiar and kid-friendly flavors in tobacco vaping products. We're fighting back to protect the next generation from the tobacco industry.
Learn more about us at www.apichat.org and www.bacr.org
Above is the pay range for this position that we reasonably expect to pay. Individual compensation is based on various factors including experience/education, skillset, and geographic location.
