MAP Engagement Coordinator

MAP Engagement Coordinator for Brownsville and Van Dyke Houses

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice. Since 1996, we've worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods. With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies: operating programs that pilot new ideas and address local challenges;

conducting original research to evaluate what works—and what doesn't; and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to reformers across the country and beyond.

Neighborhood Safety Initiative, is seeking a MAP Engagement Coordinator for Brownsville and Van Dyke Houses to support a resident-driven community organizing initiative in partnership with the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). Underway since 2015, MAP is a comprehensive strategy to enhance public safety and strengthen community well-being in 15 public housing developments across New York City. The initiative aims to enhance safety and overall quality of life by strengthening collaboration and capacity among public housing residents.

Since 2016, citywide meetings have been convened to share information and data, facilitate community engagement to identify neighborhood priorities, enhance the quality of life and spur collaboration and accountability among city agencies and local stakeholders.

Neighborhood Safety Initiative is seeking an organizer from the Brownsville & Van Dyke community who will support residents, community partners and local city agency representatives through the process of identifying and solving issues that create vulnerabilities in community safety and well-being. Reporting to the Associate Director, the MAP Engagement Coordinator will lead the planning and implementation of Neighborhood Stat at their designated site.

The MAP Engagement Coordinator is expected to:

• Recruit and retain a team of local residents and support building their capacity in policy and placemaking, organizing and advocacy, and other relevant competencies;
• Facilitate the implementation of resident-led community-building projects;
• Work in partnership with the Program Administrators to coordinate city agencies to respond to community needs via all aspects of the Neighborhood Stat process;
• Promote positive cultural norms around behavioral change to maintain community-led public safety; and
• Use data to inform resident-led strategies that promote community safety.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Organizing and Direct Action
• Recruit and manage a diverse resident team: representative of the development's diverse subgroups, including religious affiliations, ethnic identities, cultures, languages, age groups, and histories of community organizing and civic engagement;
• Develop and retain a comprehensive engagement plan, with a clear strategy, benchmarks, and outcomes, to create partnerships and gain a solid understanding of key community priorities;
• Attend in-person, teleconference, virtual meetings, and community events, including; precinct council meetings, community board meetings, and Tenant Association meetings;
• Conduct research and engage experts to create meeting and action agenda's that introduce residents to a variety of interventions strategies and/or frameworks for community organizing and problem-solving;
• Facilitate resident and stakeholder planning meetings that support engagement, problem identification, problem-solving, practice and action steps, and memorialize plans in a centralized, digital platform;
• Lead facilitation of resident team meetings and manage meeting invites, agendas, note taking, and resident task support and execution;
• Plan, lead and co-facilitate public community meetings and direct action organizing activities, as appropriate with MAP Initiative Managers; meet regularly with Initiative Managers to organize and strategize resident action items for MAP Initiative Managers to address with city agencies;
• Co-facilitate and co-organize, with MAP Initiative Managers, city agency, and community partner meetings, and represent resident concerns and proposed solutions;
• Track action steps by recording, consolidating, and sharing meeting notes with key strategic partners; including government partners, NYCHA representatives, local partners, elected officials, team members, and the resident public;
• Host an annual resident-led development-wide community participatory process with support from key organizational staff, and government partners by engaging residents in idea generation and voting; and, subsequently, informing the public of chosen projects and engaging residents in project design and implementation;
• Champion ongoing community outreach and communications to raise awareness of residents' priorities, place keeping projects, and policy recommendations;
• Work with the…