Community Outreach & Communications Coordinator

Company: Americorps
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Community Outreach & Communications Coordinator

Milwaukee Succeeds was launched by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation serves as the backbone organization for Milwaukee Succeeds-lending its facilities, administrative services, financial resources, and community leadership to this initiative. Our partnership consists of representatives from over 300 local organizations, collaborating to transform systems for all children in the City of Milwaukee. Our Strategic Objective (thru 2023) is to share decision-making power with those most impacted while centering racial justice to accelerate education equity. Milwaukee Succeeds unites our partners around a commitment to support strategies that will achieve our shared vision of success to advance Strive's four principles of collective impact: Shared Community Vision, Evidence-Based Decision Making, Collaborative Action, and Investment and Sustainability. The Community Engagement Coordinator position is designed to advance our partnership's four community engagement principles: parents, students, opportunity youth, and community leaders contribute to our partner's efforts including participation in leadership and decision making. The partnership has established mechanisms for gathering community input and uses that input to help prioritize the partnership's work. Community members help develop and manage the partnership's goals. While data used for continuous improvement includes voices and experiences from the community. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties : Develop and execute community outreach plan. Ensure that the new community outreach plan meets the needs of culturally and economically diverse communities and identifies and removes barriers to participation. Establish, coordinate, and further develop the community outreach network. Spearhead the planning committee of the Milwaukee Succeeds annual Collective Impact community event and creates a standard operating procedure to guide the planning of future collective impact community events. Execute communications strategy across social media and online databases. Evaluate the effectiveness of the new communications strategy for social media and develop policies and procedures for future utilization of Milwaukee Succeeds social media platforms.

Program Benefits : Relocation Allowance , Living Allowance , Training , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend .

Terms :

Permits working at another job during off hours , Car recommended , Permits attendance at school during off hours .

Service Areas :

Education , Community Outreach .

Skills :

Leadership , Writing/Editing , Community Organization , Team Work , Communications , Public Speaking .

Keywords: Americorps, Milwaukee , Community Outreach & Communications Coordinator, Other , Milwaukee, Wisconsin