Community Engagement Worker

Description

Organization Overview: The Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center (Isaacs Center) is a non-profit, multi-service organization focusing primarily on the needs of children and low-income families, out-of-school and out-of-work youth, and aging New Yorkers. We operate at community centers located in the neighborhoods of East Harlem and Yorkville and seek to deliver programs that are impactful, innovative, and intergenerational.

 

Position Summary: Under the supervision of the Community Engagement Manager, the Community Benefit Specialist assist with community outreach and engagement activities meant to promote food security, housing security, socialization, financial security, and health access. The Community Benefit Specialist will work on a team to facilitate community needs assessment, food pantry distribution, outreach and wellness checks, and other program activities and initiatives.

 

Schedule: 35 hours per week. 

 

Salary: $31,164 - $38,955

 

Goddard Riverside and Isaacs Center follow the CDC and NYS recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and are now requiring all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a qualified exemption.

Roles, Responsibilities, and Essential Duties

Primary Duties:

• Perform data entry to support the flow of data and statistics for internal reporting and contract requirements.
• Assist in creating and facilitating Intergenerational programming
• Conduct Community Needs Assessment of older adults living in public housing and surrounding communities of East Harlem and Yorkville Manhattan
• Track data associated with support calls
• Support homebound older adults.
• Provide support to aging services programming
• Assist in all aspects of the distribution of nutritional food packages to eligible clients, including, but not limited to, stocking shelves, assisting with deliveries, and conducting intake and assessment.
• Assist with packaging food items
• Deliver pantry bags to community members as per the assigned route
• Maintains accurate log of deliveries
• Adhere to all agency policies and procedures, including as relates to COVID safety measures
• Provide assistance to Community Engagement Manager
• Performs other duties as requested.

 

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or HSE is preferred
• Experience working with an aging population preferred.
• Comfortable with making home deliveries
• Good communication skills both listening and following directions
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Publisher
• Ability to lift up and move boxes of food
• Ability to work Indoor/Outdoor environment in various weather conditions
• Ability to work either Thanksgiving or Christmas Day

 

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of duties and responsibilities that will be required of this position and title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position.  Employees may be requested to perform job related task other than those specifically presented in this description. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.