Senior Community Engagement Coordinator

826 Boston seeks a creative team member with strong organizational skills to serve as the Senior Community Engagement Coordinator. We are seeking a candidate with a strong command of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles and approaches, who can build on the current strengths of the Volunteer Management Team, including robust training and support that center diversity, equity, and inclusion, collaborative partnerships with universities, and a culture of gratitude and appreciation.

The coordinator will also support the Volunteer Management Team in cultivating and stewarding the individual volunteers that foster learning spaces that are student-centered, strengths-based, and promote inclusivity for the identities, experiences, and voices of LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and neurodiverse students.

826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.

• Support the Volunteer Program Manager in cultivating and stewarding a volunteer corps of 300+ individuals on an annual basis
• Build, cultivate, and manage strong relationships to
  maintain pipelines with university partners and community organizations that fuel Service Learning opportunities and Writing Workshops support
• Collaborate with program team members to develop and lead community-based recruitment events
• Oversee volunteer onboarding for all individuals, including leading one or two volunteer training sessions a month, coordinating pre- and post-training communication, recruiting individuals to attend training sessions via online postings, and tabling at events
• Support the Volunteer Management Team in partnering with program teams to develop supplemental trainings to meet the needs of students and interests of the volunteer corps
• Plan and execute volunteer appreciation events
• Lead and manage outreach efforts including but not limited to university partner visits, community fairs, which occasionally occur on nights and weekends

• Support in conducting CORI & SORI background checks and processing paperwork for volunteers
• Manage volunteer communications systems, including email, volunteer opportunity calendar and sign up tools like Salesforce
• Coordinate the administration and analysis of volunteer surveys, including training feedback, volunteer experience, and 826 National surveys
• Maintain volunteer records, track participation, and produce reports in our Volunteer Database, Sales Force
• Collaborate with Senior Manager of Volunteer and Community Engagement to track progress toward annual programming goals and report to the team on a biannual basis
• Conduct quarterly check-ins with program teams to identify and address volunteer needs in Writers’ Rooms & In-School Programs

• Support organization-wide summer programming
• Provide occasional support to programming as a tutor or staff coverage
• In collaboration with the Internships Manager, hire, train, and supervise 1-2 interns per semester

The ideal candidate is a team player with a steadfast commitment to improving the quality of K-12 education, including adopting antiracist/anti-oppressive approaches, with a desire to work in a collaborative and inclusive culture and a passion for youth empowerment through writing and publishing.

826 Boston recognizes that impostor syndrome and the confidence gap might prevent some applicants from applying. Few candidates will have all of the relevant experience listed below, but 826 Boston is committed to assessing candidates with transferable skills and…