Community Organizer​/Engagement - Annandale

Position: Opportunity Neighborhood Community Organizer.

Reports To: Opportunity Neighborhood Strategy Manager.

Category: Full-Time/Exempt/Permanent.

Location: In‑Person, Annandale, Virginia.

Position Summary: FACETS is looking for a mission-driven Opportunity Neighborhood Community Organizer. Opportunity Neighborhood (ON) utilizes a collective impact approach to help children, youth, and families reach their fullest potential through a strong academic foundation, family and community stability, and a culture of engagement, connectedness, and success. FACETS is the lead organization for ON‑Annandale which is an established initiative (3 years old).

The Community Organizer will work in partnership with the Strategy Manager and will have primary responsibility for engaging, building and growing intentional relationships with residents. The person must be fluent in both Spanish and English. The Community Organizer is a critical member of the ON team charged with engaging residents to create a community where—from cradle to career—every child and youth has the opportunity to access the resources needed to thrive.

FACETS is a non‑profit organization that opens doors by helping parents, their children, and individuals who suffer the effects of poverty in Fairfax County. We meet their emergency needs through our wrap around services and community partnerships, and help individuals and families experience safe and stable housing after years of uncertainty and instability. We strive to ensure that every person in our community has a place they can call home.

Here at FACETS, every team member plays a role in making a difference in the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors.

• Participate in community events, often in the evening or on weekends to get to know residents and build trust.
• Develop and maintain a list of residents in identified neighborhoods and organize outreach to that list.
• Develop, implement, and update outreach strategy as new needs emerge.
• Establish a Residents’ Council made up of residents of identified neighborhoods and coordinate their work.
• Plan Residents’ Council meetings to follow trauma‑informed guidelines, provide language equity, and respect the contributions of all participants as equal members, regardless of differences in income or education.
• Recruit and provide oversight for community leaders (Neighborhood Ambassadors), including identifying potential leaders, training them, offering the support they need to complete their terms, and keeping all related administrative records.
• Maintain records on Neighborhood Ambassadors’ attendance at Council meetings and outreach work, as well as records on stipends for completing ten hours of outreach work per month.
• Represent the Opportunity Neighborhood initiative at appropriate meetings and presentations.
• Build knowledge of community services/resources to make appropriate referrals for residents and work closely with the larger FACETS team for any needed follow‑up.
• Contribute to the maintenance of the ON calendar of events and organizational databases and support the Strategy Manager in collecting/developing monthly data reports for internal and external distribution.
• Coordinate with initiative partners to align actions and minimize redundancies, especially in conducting individual or collaborative outreach and education.
• Coordinate with FACETS Volunteer Manager and Development department on needed volunteers and in‑kind supports.

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in social work, community development, or a related field, or have equivalent experience in community development or organizing.
• Demonstrated commitment to community issues and organizing, and achieving racial and social equity.
• Advanced group facilitation, outreach, and interpersonal/communication skills (written and verbal).
• Fluent in Spanish and English; experience as an interpreter or willingness to develop interpretation skills through training.
• Demonstrated success building effective relationships, ideally in a network or collective impact model.
• Good analytical, negotiation, conflict resolution, and problem‑solving…