National Community Health Worker​/Educator

Title: National Community Health Worker/ Educator

Location :
Bronx, NY

Salary: $19.90 per hour

About Grameen America:

Grameen America is a nonprofit microfinance organization dedicated to helping low-income women entrepreneurs build businesses to enable upward financial mobility. We envision an inclusive society in which all entrepreneurs, regardless of gender, race or income, have access to fair and affordable financial services. We provide affordable capital, credit- and asset-building, education and peer support to enable our members to boost their business income, create jobs and transform communities.

Founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus in 2008, Grameen America is now the fastest growing nonprofit microfinance organization in the U.S., having achieved tremendous milestones in its first 16 years of operations, investing in 220,000 low-income women entrepreneurs while demonstrating measurable impact. Our members have repaid their loans at a rate of over 99% and have become economic drivers in their communities.

For more information, please visit grameenamerica.org

Position Summary

The Community Health Program (CHP) has a mission to provide underserved women with innovative and comprehensive health care and education programs that combine high-quality primary care, wellness services and health and financial education, thereby empowering them to lead healthier lives and realize their full potential as business owners,mothers and community members. The Community Health Program (CHP) is a program of Grameen America Inc.

(GAI), a microfinance organization founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, empowering low-income populations to overcome poverty by providing financial resources.

The National Community Health Worker/ Educator (National CHW/Educator) position requires a Spanish speaker to work in Bronx, NYwith immigrant women whoparticipatein the GAI microfinance program. TheNationalCHW/Educator will work closely with the women by providing health, financialliteracyand other finance and small business-related content to our members as well as social support. TheNationalCHW/Educator will also work closely with neighborhood health resources and social service organizationstoimprove the health and well-being of GAI women.

This position will work as a team with other

NationalCHW/Educators.

The NCHW/Educator role is anationalposition that may provide support not only to the employee’shome branch, but also to other branches and communities within the region, based on programmatic and operational needs.

These interventions may be time-boundand are conducted fully remotely, without relocation requirements. Following the completion of an assignment, the National CHW/Educator may be deployed to support another community or city within the region.

Cities with established CHP programming may also keep, at Site Manager’s discretion,one or more National CHW/Educators responsible for continuing to support members enrolled in that local community.

National CHW/Educators assigned tonationalinterventions will remain attached to their home branch and must continue tocomply withall operational in-office requirementsestablishedby the organization, including required in-office days.

On
- Site Work Requirements

It is mandatory to be physically present in the branch with a minimum of three days up to five days, depending on the branch’s requirements. This may also include and is not limited to being in-community on the ground as well. Requirements to be present in the branch are subject to change at any time at the discretion of the organization.

Based on GAI business priorities and staffing need we reserve the right to reassign you to another branch (within a 30–40-mile radius) if GAI determines such…