Community Organizer

Community Organizer# Community Organizer Bronx, NY 10452;
Bronx, NY 10452## Overview Salary Range $30.22 - $32.96 Hourly Position Type Full Time Education Level High School## Description
** ABOUT NEW SETTLEMENT
** The Crenulated Company Ltd. dba New Settlement Apartments (“New Settlement”) is a community-led, mission-driven settlement house rooted in the Bronx. For more than 35 years, New Settlement has worked with youth, families, residents, and community members in the Southwest Bronx to build resilience, expand opportunity, and strengthen neighborhoods through after-school education and youth development, workforce development and college readiness, health, fitness, and wellness programming, community organizing for better housing and safer schools, and arts, creative expression, and community-building initiatives.

Rooted in the Bronx, New Settlement stands with community members to break systemic barriers, advance justice, promote leadership, and strengthen neighborhoods. By ensuring agency around education, employment, housing, wellness, and creative expression, New Settlement helps cultivate an equitable society where individuals and families have the power to use their voice to create the change they wish to see.
** JOB
* *** SUMMARY
* * Guided by the Director and in coordination with other organizers, the Community Organizer will strengthen CASA’s broad base of members who are committed to housing justice, understand what it takes to build a movement, and are prepared to take bold action to improve the quality and affordability of housing in the Southwest Bronx. The Community Organizer will organize tenants to address landlord harassment, secure needed repairs, prevent displacement, and stabilize communities while helping residents recognize and exercise their collective power.

Using a leadership-development model, the Community Organizer will support tenant steering committees, build members’ organizing skills, and develop tenant associations that can operate independently while connecting tenant leaders to CASA’s broader campaigns.
** Job Duties include but not limited to**:
* Support and enhance a culture that respects and honors diversity, invests in professional development and encourages self-care.
* Build a Strong Base of Engaged Community Members through:
** Outreach and Base-building:
** conduct outreach weekly via door knocking, flyering, and tabling to educate community members about their rights as rent-stabilized tenants and recruit to be active participants in CASA's campaigns. Conduct weekly phone-banking: CASA has weekly membership events for our members to engage in which include workshops, General Membership Meetings, Campaign Meetings, etc. You will have weekly call lists and make on average 100 calls per week.

** Organizing 4–5 Tenants’ Associations:
** Organize and support four to five tenant associations to address landlord harassment, housing conditions, needed repairs, displacement risks, and other shared concerns.

Responsibilities include:

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- * Build relationships with tenants through regular outreach, one-on-one conversations, building meetings, and follow-up.

* Identify shared building-wide concerns, assess organizing opportunities, and support tenants in developing goals, strategies, and action plans.

* Develop representative steering committees that work collectively and assign roles based on members’ skills, interests, availability, and leadership goals.

* Coach tenant leaders to plan and facilitate meetings, recruit and engage neighbors, create flyers, write letters, document housing conditions, and communicate effectively with landlords and public agencies.

* Support tenant-led actions, including meetings with landlords, engagement with HPD and other…