Outreach Coordinator

Job Title:

Community Outreach Coordinator (3 Year Term-Limited)

Reports To:

Community Engagement and Education Director

Are you passionate about bringing people together around shared purpose, building meaningful pathways into conservation careers, and ensuring that open space and parks are welcoming and accessible to all? Do you thrive at the intersection of community, stewardship, and action, and enjoy meeting people where they are to foster lasting relationships with land and place? Are you outgoing, people-oriented, and motivated by the opportunity to engage others in work that matters?

Sonoma Land Trust is seeking a multitalented Community Outreach Coordinator to serve as a community ambassador, organizer, and steward of volunteer and internship programs. This role is ideal for someone who believes conservation is strongest when it is rooted in community leadership, inclusive participation, and long-term relationship building. As the Community Outreach Coordinator, you will help activate volunteers, interns, and community members across Sonoma County, supporting Sonoma Land Trust's mission to protect the open, natural, and working lands and waters that sustain healthy, thriving futures for all.

Sonoma Land Trust's community engagement programs serve a diverse audience with broad cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, and orientations. We encourage applications from candidates who reflect and value the audiences and populations we serve.

Overview

The Community Outreach Coordinator is responsible for the implementation of inclusive outreach, volunteer, and internship opportunities that serve all areas of Sonoma Land Trust's mission. Under the direction of the Community Engagement and Education Director, the role works closely with all staff and departments to develop, support and empower volunteers, interns, and community members to help advance conservation throughout the county.

The Community Outreach Coordinator will support the administration and development of inclusive volunteer and internship opportunities, track and support volunteers and interns, and lead public outreach activities.

You're encouraged to apply if you:

• Have at least 2+ years of experience building communities around mission driven strategies.

• Are people-oriented with exceptional relationship development and collaboration skills.

• Understand how to create multicultural spaces that are welcoming, growth oriented, and sensitive to differing identities.

• Have flexibility to work evenings and weekends when our audiences are available.

Primary Responsibilities

Volunteer and Internship Program Management (70%)

• Develop and maintain volunteer programs and internships that advance conservation, protection, and restoration of open space and parks

• Collaborate with departments and staff to identify, scope, and implement volunteer projects and internships

• Lead recruitment, solicitation, onboarding, training and administration of all volunteers and interns with particular focus on reaching BIPOC and young people

• Respond to and process all individual volunteer and internship inquiries

• Collaboratively create position descriptions for volunteer and internship roles and projects

• Maintain volunteer and intern records and statistics in the database

• Coordinate and facilitate volunteer trainings and educational opportunities

• Implement formal and informal volunteer/intern appreciation programs

• Coordinate institutional contracts and partnerships to facilitate internship and volunteer opportunities

• Monitor program satisfaction and implement evaluation of programs

• Interview and place volunteers, matching their skills and interest with the specific needs of the organization

• Plan and actively participate (as needed) in volunteer workdays as needed

• Co-develop learning objectives and performance management processes for interns with staff

Community Organizing and Outreach (30%)

• Conduct regular outreach, including on weekends, to build awareness and increase community participation in organizational initiatives

• Implementing programs designed to empower members of the community to take action on local issues such as park access or climate impacts

• Support with…