Community Outreach Specialist - Los Angeles, United States - Chinatown Service Center

Chinatown Service Center
Chinatown Service Center
Verified Company
Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

Mark Lane

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Description

Job purpose
A Community Outreach Specialist is responsible to engage and educate the community about the organization and its goals.

The duties include but not limited to acting as a liaison with community partners to further the organization goals, take part in community fundraising events and identify a respective sponsor list, recruitment of potential clients, and volunteer recruitment.


Duties and responsibilities

  • Develop and implement outreach strategies by organizing virtual workshops, events, and education/ training programs to increase community awareness about our organization and programs/projects
  • Write content pieces, press releases, announcements, and newsletters, to inform internal staff and the public about organization's projects, services, and upcoming events
  • Collaborate with public relations/development team to ensure community outreach and engagement activities are consistent with our brand and organization's culture
  • Draft and submit reports, presentations, and pitches for related projects
  • Conduct street/community outreach events on a weekly basis
  • Create and distribute outreach materials
  • Document each outreach contacts during or after each outreach excursion
  • Responsible for tallying monthly outreach contacts and completing reports
  • Conduct educational presentation and workshop on healthrelated topics at schools and community locations
  • Develop and sustain positive relationship with a range of people, including community leaders, local groups and organizations, and local authorities
  • Working as part of a team to support and sustain communityled action around issues related to health and wellbeing
  • Working as part of a team to organize and hold events that draw in and involve local residents and partners
  • Supporting facetoface, online and print communication and marketing activities

Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree in communications, design or a related field or equivalent experience. Two years of relevant experience.
  • Comfortable and knowledgeable of the health care and behavioral health industry
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Experience of using creative platforms for community engagement, such as design, art, photography or video
  • Experience of producing deliverables for a range of audiences, including reports, presentations and blogs.
  • Capability to work professionally with many constituencies, personalities and workstyles (e.g., staff, partners, participants, vendors, donors, and volunteers) to meet deadlines
  • Willingness to learn and adapt in a fastpaced environment
  • Ability to work in a team environment and independently. Must be flexible in a fastpaced setting and able to work under deadline pressure with multiple priorities
  • Ability to build and maintain positive relationships and actively contribute as a member of working teams to achieve results
  • Must be customer serviceminded in the interaction, planning and execution of all projects
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written
  • Ability to work evening and weekend hours as needed
  • Must have a valid driver's license and clear Department of Motor Vehicles record. This position requires the employee to drive

Direct reports
Prevention Manager
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