MAP Engagement Coordinator

Location: New York

THE ORGANIZATION Jacob

A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement (Riis Settlement), a community-based non-profit organization offering comprehensive services to the youth, adults, seniors, immigrants and families of Western Queens, is dedicated to civic engagement and organizing as integral to our mission “to build and strengthen underserved communities and act as a catalyst for change.” For more information about Jacob A Riis Neighborhood Settlement, please view our website ssettlement.orgJOB

SUMMARY The Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (“MAP”) is a comprehensive neighborhood-based strategy to increase safety through coordinated crime reduction and quality of life improvement efforts at 30 NYCHA developments across New York City. The MAP approach enlists residents, City agencies, and community-based partners to help move beyond enforcement and address the factors underlying safety, providing opportunities for work and play, health and well-being, and youth development;

promoting activated, well-maintained spaces through community and human-centered design; and improving trust between neighbors with a responsive and just government. MAP’s mission is to improve community safety in places impacted by historic disinvestment by creating opportunities for residents to identify key issues underlying crime and participate in the decision-making to address these priorities. The MAP Engagement Coordinators will lead the planning and implementation of the (ONS) NYC Office of Neighborhood Safety at their designated site.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 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 clear strategy, benchmarks and outcomes, to create partnerships and gain a solid understanding of key community priorities

Attend in-person, teleconferences, 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 MAP 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 strategy 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 Center staff, Design, Operations, 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 Communications Manager to leverage traditional media, social media and public education campaign strategies to share updates, action steps and resident priorities and activities.

Support resident voice and resident advocacy for policy change by defining challenges and…