Job Opening - Grant Writer

The Brazilian Children’s Charity (B.C.C.) is interviewing for the position of Grant Writer. 

The B.C.C. believes that mental health services are the right of every individual in Brazil regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, gender, skin color, religious beliefs, or socioeconomic status and the administering of mental health services should be approached from a global perspective.  The Brazilian Children’s Charity plans to solve these problems through a capacity building model.
 
Prospective candidates should have at least three years of grant writing experience.  Furthermore, it is preferred that the applicant has lived or lives in the Seattle area and received at least a Master’s degree.  For more details of responsibilities and job description, interested applicants should e-mail alumnus Hal Morris, M.A. Psychology ‘06 at: president@bccharity.org.

Job Opening - Development and Executive Assistant

Job Description

The Global Visionaries (GV) Development and Executive Assistant (DEA) assists the Executive Director (ED) in all fund development campaigns and administrative matters; the DEA is in charge of revenue tracking (Salesforce database) and creating e-newsletters and other communications. The DEA is supervised directly by the ED.

Responsibilities include:

• Track all contributions in Salesforce database
• Support ED and Board in administrative management of Adult Trip to Guatemala, Major Donor event, auction, and general contributions
• Assist ED in grant writing preparation
• Assist in developing P.R. including but not limited to quarterly newsletter and monthly e-newsletters, press releases and brochures
• Supervise and coordinate development interns
• Coordinate ED’s schedule, communications, meeting and project preparation

Required Qualifications

• Proven organizational and task management skills; excellent time management; well organized
• Ability to think creatively to improve systems, processes, procedures
• Strong verbal & written skills
• Demonstrated ability to work with little supervision, in unstructured environment
• Experience in donor databases & MSFT Office (excel, ppt, word, outlook)
• Interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with co-workers and volunteers
• Team player; experience working effectively in a multi-ethnic environment; sensitivity to diversity
• Some development back ground in one of the key areas: event coordination, major donors, grants, or sponsorship
• Administrative assistant or like experience
• Knows how to go above and beyond what is asked.

Desired Qualifications

• Background and/or interest in social justice work

Organization DescriptionSeattle-based Global Visionaries educates and empowers youth to become active leaders and global citizens who promote social and environmental justice through volunteer work at home and abroad. A highlight of the program is the extraordinary international educational trip to Guatemala involving language and cultural immersion, volunteer work and adventure. The year-long Leadership Program provides youth a global perspective empowering them to understand the intrinsic relationships between local and international social and environmental justice issues and volunteer work. 50%of our students from low-income families. Visit www.global-visionaries.org for more information.

Annual Salary:

$32,000; health benefits immediately; retirement plan begins one year after hire date. Three weeks paid vacation annually.

How to Apply

Please submit a resume, letter of interest, recent writing sample, and at least 3 professional references to: Chris Fontana, Executive Director at chrisfontana@global-visionaries.org. Please write “Development and Executive Assistant” in the subject line. Include your availability for interviews over 2 week period upon submitting materials.

Timeline

Interviews begin on 08/10/2010. Position will remain open until position is filled. Please contact us via email only.

People of color strongly encouraged to apply. Global Visionaries is an equal opportunity employer. We seek a diverse workforce to match the global nature of our programs and the broad diversity of the students who participate.

Note: Chris Fontana is an Antioch University Seattle alumnus who graduated with an M.A. degree in Whole Systems Design in 1998 and received the AUS Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2007.

Job Lead- Temporary Peer Specialist

Position: Temporary Peer Specialist
Company: Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
Location: Seattle, WA and surrounding area
Pay Range: $2,651 - $3,381 per month DOQ
Position Closes: September 7, 2010

Position Description: This is a temporary position not eligible for benefits or SEIU membership. Applications must be received by September 7, 2010 in order to be considered. A person who is or has been a recipient of mental health services for severe and persistent mental illness holds this position. Because of their life experience with mental illness and mental health services, the peer specialist provides expertise that professional training cannot replicate. Peer specialists are fully integrated team members who provide highly individualized services in the community and promote client self-determination and decision-making. Peer specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each client’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities. Staff hired must be certified by the Washington State Peer Support Counselor Training Program within 1 year of employment with PACT team. For more information, please see the complete job description at www.desc.org/jobs.html

Company Information: The Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) is a client-centered recovery-oriented mental health service delivery model that has received substantial empirical support for facilitating community living, psychosocial rehabilitation, and recovery for persons who have the most severe and persistent mental illnesses, have severe symptoms and impairments, and have not benefited from traditional outpatient programs.

PACT serves clients with severe and persistent mental illness that are complex, have devastating effects on functioning, and, because of the limitations of traditional mental health services, may have gone without appropriate services. Consequently, the client group is often over represented among the homeless and in jails and prisons, and has been unfairly thought to resist or avoid involvement in treatment. PACT services are delivered by a group of multidisciplinary mental health staff who work as a team and provide the majority of the treatment, rehabilitation, and support services clients need to achieve their goals. The team is directed by a project manager, team leader and a psychiatric prescriber and includes a sufficient number of staff from the core mental health disciplines, at least one peer specialist, and a program or administrative support staff who work in shifts to cover 24 hours per day, seven days a week and to provide intensive services (multiple contacts may be as frequent as two to three times per day, seven days per week, which are based on client need and a mutually agreed upon plan between the client and PACT staff). Many, if not all, staff share responsibility for addressing the needs of all clients requiring frequent contact. PACT services are individually tailored with each client and address the preferences and identified goals of each client. The approach with each client emphasizes relationship building and active involvement in assisting individuals with severe and persistent mental illness to make improvements in functioning, to better manage symptoms, to achieve individual goals, and to maintain optimism. There should be no more than 8-10 clients to one staff member. The PACT team is mobile and delivers services in community locations to enable each client to find and live in their own residence and find and maintain work in community jobs rather than expecting the client to come to the program. Seventy-five percent or more of the services are provided outside of the program offices in locations that are comfortable and convenient for clients. PACT services are delivered in an ongoing rather than time-limited framework to aid the process of recovery and ensure continuity of caregiver. Severe and persistent mental illnesses are episodic disorders and many clients benefit from the availability of a longer-term treatment approach and continuity of care.

To Apply: Submit a cover letter and resume to: DESC-PACT, ATTN: Human Resources,
515 3rd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, fax to (206) 515-1501, or email to hr@desc.org.
Please note that cover letters and resumes attached to an email as separate documents will not be accepted unless they are in format readable by MS Word or Adobe Reader. The following document formats are unacceptable and will not be reviewed: .wps, .jpeg.

Job Opening - Media Relations & Marketing Officer

The UW Law School is looking for a short-term contract employee who could help them fill the void that will be left after their Media Relations & Marketing Officer leaves on September 8th. They need a good writer and someone that can be flexible in helping them through this interim period. They also just hired an e-Communications and Web Content person that this person would work closely with while they are with them. (Stephanie indicated that this is an open position and that the contract person would be welcome to apply for the FT postion).

Specific Duties in the short-term could include:
• Help fill void in the Law school’s media, public relations, advertising, marketing and communications areas
• Some project management of print publications and other marketing materials to ensure all are developed in alignment with law school brand messaging and strategy
• Works collaboratively with faculty, students, staff, alumni, University of Washington Marketing Communications and News and Information.
• Help with the analysis of constituency research, current market conditions and competitor information; monitor, review and report on marketing activity and results.
• Manages the final mailing of UW Law Alumni Magazine; set to drop on October 1st
• Respond to media calls, gathers information and coordinates with appropriate expertise; serving as liaison for faculty, staff and students with the media and the public.
• Generates press releases & ads for local bar news, legal journals and magazines

Contact:
Stephanie D. Cox
Assistant Dean for Advancement
University of Washington School of Law
stephcox%40u.washington.edu

Job Opening - Resident Caretaker for Beach Plum Farm (22-Acre Conservation Property) in Maine

The mission of the Great Works Regional Land Trust is to conserve the value of our natural, historic, agricultural, forestry, scenic and recreational resources. We pursue this mission by holding property and conservation easements where these values are present and by promoting the need and value of conservation through education and other related activities.

Our work is concentrated in the southern Maine towns of Eliot, South Berwick, Berwick, North Berwick, Wells and Ogunquit. Since our inception in 1986, the Trust has completed 84 projects conserving over 4100 acres.

Great Works Regional Land Trust (GWRLT) is currently seeking (9/1/10) a resident caretaker for its Beach Plum Farm property in Ogunquit.

Beach Plum Farm is a 22-acre conservation property located at 610 Main Street in Ogunquit. Beach Plum Farm is open to the public from dawn to dusk, makes community garden plots available, for a nominal fee, to members of the public and houses the GWRLT’s office in addition to the caretaker’s residence. The caretaker’s residence consists of a 2 bedroom, 1 bath house with full basement, an open concept kitchen/living room and a washer/dryer.

Initially, a one-year lease is required; after one year tenancy is at will, with 60-day notice to vacate. Rent is $1,200 per month with a $600 abatement applied for performance of caretaking duties. A security deposit equal to one month rent ($1200) is required.

Caretaking duties are defined as:

· General maintenance and upkeep (including mowing and fall and spring cleanup,

· Shoveling walkways and porches of the grounds immediately surrounding the caretaker’s residence,

· Public relations (being the “face of the Land trust” to farm visitors and community members), communication of Land Trust policies for the property,

· Oversight of the security of all buildings on the property and

· Management and oversight of the Community Gardens Program.

Limited, mutually agreed upon, additional work on the property may be seasonally available, billed to GWRLT at the rate of $14.00 per hour or on a per task basis. Any such additional work will be approved by GWRLT staff prior to commencement. Such additional work could include: additional mowing on the property, annual maintenance of memorial benches, invasive species management and non-routine maintenance of the caretaker’s residence and/or the other buildings on the property.

Anyone interested in this position should contact the Great Works Regional Land Trust office at (207) 646-3604 or info@gwrlt.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for additional information and an application.

Beach Plum Farm Community Gardens Program

The Community Gardens Program at Beach Plum Farm involves roughly 60 (sixty) 20’x20’ garden plots that are leased to individuals in the community on an annual basis. Enrollment is opened first to prior year gardeners with a letter of inquiry in March. Gardeners are assigned the same plot every year when possible. Enrollment is opened to prospective gardeners on the waiting list in April. Any plots not assigned by the beginning of May are offered to the community at large and advertised via a press release.

Community Gardens Program Management & Oversight responsibilities:

· Meet with GWRLT staff annually (usually in spring) or as otherwise necessary

· Maintain database of current and waiting-list gardeners

· Prepare and send annual spring letter

· Work with GWRLT staff to develop Community Gardens Program rules and regulations

· Work with GWRLT staff to develop/maintain appropriate signage

· Represent GWRLT in all interactions with gardeners

· Communicate with current and prospective gardeners as necessary (in person or by phone, letter or email)

· Help to prevent theft or other inappropriate activities in and around garden plots

· Assist GWRLT in developing, communicating and implementing Community Gardens Program rules and guidelines

· Assign plots to new and/or waiting-list gardeners

· Help ensure organic practices

· Be reasonably available to gardeners for information, questions and/or assistance

· Arrange and prepare for and oversee spring tilling; limited tilling as necessary with GWRLT equipment

· Prepare plots, as necessary, for winter

· Arrange for fall purging of water lines; ensure water lines are on and operational in spring

· Other duties as may be necessary

Job Lead- Organizer

Position:Organizer
Company: Got Green
Location: Seattle, WA

Company Description: Got Green is a start-up organization - sponsored by the White Center Community Development Association - and we are seeking an experienced community organizer to build a racially diverse activist base of low income and working class young adults of color to fight to ensure that their communities fully benefit from the sustainable, green economy.

We are entering a historic time in our country where local efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and global warming are expected to generate thousands of job opportunities as well as new products that are healthier for our homes and families. Got Green believes that through community organizing, we can make sure that Seattle-area “green jobs” provide opportunity to communities most in need: low income communities of color; and that “green jobs” are also “good jobs” - paying a living wage and benefits. We also believe that through organizing, we can make sure that low-income families gain equal access to “green products” and “green lifestyles.”

Job Responsibilities:
. Recruit and develop the leadership of low income and young adults of color to participate in and lead all of Got Green’s activities.
. Develop and implement a broad-based outreach and recruitment plan to 1) Bring new members into Got Green; 2) Educate communities of color (including recent immigrant communities) about green jobs opportunities; 3) Recruit potential participants into a union-certified Weatherization Installer Tech training program.
. Work with volunteer activists to plan and lead community organizing campaigns aimed at 1) Shifting the balance of power in favor of low income communities; 2) Winning concrete demands that improve the lives of low income young adults of color.
. Organize events such as community forums; hip-hop shows; film showings; accountability sessions; etc. to advance Got Green’s outreach and organizing.
. Create leadership and personal development plans with each of Got Green’s core constituent leaders. Support Got Green leaders towards reaching their goals.
. Help to develop and lead organizing skills trainings and political education sessions for Got Green constituents/activists.
. Build and maintain a community-based interpreting/translation network
. Assist with fundraising activities such as grant writing; meetings with potential funders; event organizing; as needed.
. Support Got Green’s Weatherization Tech Installer training program and fieldwork. Build relationships with Got Green trainees to involve them in community organizing efforts.
. Participate in staff meetings, organization-wide retreats and on-going strategic planning sessions and support other staff where needed
. Represent Got Green’s mission, values and objectives in all interactions with the public.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

. Demonstrated connections to and “roots” in communities of color
. Minimum three years direct organizing experience around economic, racial, and/or gender justice issues - preferably in communities of color
. Experience developing the leadership skills of low income/working class constituents
. Excellent written and verbal communications skills
. Strong computer skills - MS Office, Web-based email, databases, etc.
. Ability to work evenings and weekends as required
. Valid WA State Driver’s license, owns a vehicle, is/can be insured.
. “Risk taker” and “Team player”

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
. Fluent in a second language
. Existing network in one or more local communities of color
. Experience with/knowledge of organized labor movement and specifically building trades unions
. Desktop publishing, graphic design, or web design experience
. Sense of humor

Compensation: $37K-$42K DOE, Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance, Sick Leave & Accrual, Vacation (12 days in the first year), 12 paid holidays

To Apply: Submit resume, cover letter and three references ASAP via email to:
<”ailto:info@gotgreen.org> info@gotgreen.org
SUBJECT LINE: Organizer position

Please also submit your answer (500 words or less) to the following: What have you found to be the greatest challenges and opportunities to building a grassroots activist base in low-income communities of color?

Job Lead- Data Manager/Analyst

Job Title: Data Manager/Analyst
Company: University of Washington
Location: Seattle, WA

Position Description: The Innovative Programs Research Group (IPRG) is an externally funded entity within the University of Washington School of Social Work. Funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) is currently supporting these randomized controlled trials:

o The Men’s Domestic Abuse Check-Up (MDACU) is evaluating a telephone-delivered motivational enhancement intervention with adult males who are abusing alcohol/drugs, engaging in intimate partner violence, and are neither in counseling nor undergoing adjudication.
o Motivating Treatment Seeking and Behavior Change by Untreated Military Personnel Abusing Alcohol or Drugs. In collaboration with Ft. Lewis, this study is evaluating a brief telephone-delivered intervention with military personnel who are abusing alcohol or drugs and are not currently in treatment.
o Marijuana Dependence Treatment (PRN). In collaboration with Virginia Polytechnic Institute, this two-year study is evaluating an in-person motivational enhancement intervention and cognitive behavior therapy with adults who are marijuana dependent.
o Teen Marijuana Check-Up 4 (TMCU4). This 5-year study is in collaboration with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and will evaluate a brief intervention conducted in high schools for adolescents who use marijuana heavily.

The Data Manager/Analyst will oversee the data management and assessment quality assurance activities associated with two or more of the above IPRG trials, as well as any future studies conducted at this group.

FTE 50%-100% (depending on project need).

To Apply: Please visit the University of Washington Employment Website
(http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/jobs/apl/index.html) and refer to job #67240.

Job Lead- Case Manager

Position: Case Manager
Company: Wellspring Family Services
Location: King County, WA
Salary: $38k - $45k DOQ

Job Duties: Clinically assess factors that have led to the client’s current situation (facing homelessness), develop care plans to address client strengths and needs as they relate to housing self-sufficiency, including goals, action steps and expected outcomes. Our open position is in intervention to keep families from becoming homeless.

Qualifications: MSW or BSW or related degree, 1 - 3 years’ experience as case manager; working with homeless families and diverse populations desired.

To Apply: Go to www.wellspringfs.org/careers for full instructions

Job Lead- Housing Services Intake Coordinator

Position: Housing Services Intake Coordinator
Company: Wellspring Family Services
Location: King County, WA
Salary: $15-17/hour DOQ

Job Summary: Support our housing services clients by conducting clinical screening (intake), and by providing program support.

Qualifications: BA in social services or related and 1 year of experience or AA and 4 years’ experience providing stabilization services to low income families.

To Apply: For more information and application instructions, go to www.wellspringfs.org/careers

Job Lead: Communications Assistant

Position: Communications Assistant
Company: One America (formerly Hate Free Zone)
Location: Seattle, WA

Company Description: OneAmerica (formerly Hate Free Zone) is a dynamic Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels through building power in immigrant communities, in conjunction with key allies.

OneAmerica has grown to become a nationally and locally recognized leader in advancing immigrant, civil and human rights. Our strategies include public policy advocacy, community organizing, public education and outreach, electoral organizing (including voter registration and mobilization) and leadership development for immigrants and refugees in Washington State. We also participate at a leadership level on several national coalitions on issues involving due process for immigrants, comprehensive immigration reform and national immigrant voting. Our work has resulted in specific policy changes and increased power for immigrants in Washington State.

To achieve our mission, OneAmerica is committed to five core goals: Increase and enhance participation of immigrants in civic life; Increase capacity of local immigrant and refugee organizations across the state to lead and advocate for change; Improve the public climate for immigrants and refugee communities in our state and nationally; Win positive policy change for immigrants and refugees across the state and nationally; and Increase One America’s organizational capacity to achieve goals effectively, efficiently and sustainably.

Position Description: The Communications Assistant is a full-time position based in our Seattle office and works with the Communications Director and organizing staff to execute campaigns in support of our program priorities. The successful candidate will be passionate about our mission and have a whatever it takes attitude; be comfortable working in a fast-paced organizing environment; juggling competing priorities; and working collaboratively with the teams of organizers, policy and administrative staff. The Communications Assistant supports the organization communications efforts by coordinating website content and design; managing email blasts and contact lists; maintaining social networking sites and developing creative new strategies with existing and new tools; designing and editing content and collateral materials that further both programmatic and fundraising efforts; conducting local and national media outreach and tracking media coverage; and supporting events and campaigns. This position reports to the Communications Director but works closely with members of our organizing, policy, and development staff.

Responsibilities Include: Maintain and update websites, Design and manage e-blasts and action alerts; Create, edit and post online video for social marketing and campaign purposes; Maintain and advance social media sites and strategies; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc.; Design and edit publications and materials for advocacy and fundraising; Coordinate small- and large-scale printing and contracted media services/campaigns with vendors, including A/P for communications department, billing and invoice management and other general and administrative duties; Assist with media relations and press events; Provide logistical and administrative support for organizing events and campaigns; Manage and segment existing email list (Constant Contact), ensuring coordination with organizational database (Salesforce)

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing or other related field; 2-3 years of experience in communications work; Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to tell stories of our members in support of organizing work in different formats; Strong technology skills including online, multimedia, database management, email blasts, social media, video; Experience with HTML, CSS, Drupal, CMS Web, WordPress, Constant Contact, Mac/PC platforms, Adobe CS, Salesforce and other data management tools preferred; at a minimum, demonstrated ability to learn new platforms essential; Strong, demonstrated graphic design skills; Candidate should be organized and highly detail-oriented; Able to work independently on multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment; Commitment to core mission of the organization and ability to work with diverse populations; Second language, especially Spanish, preferred. Salary: Commensurate with experience. Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, life and long term disability; 403B plan; sick time, family leave, and generous vacation.

To Apply: Send the following material via email to Interim Communications Director Charlie McAteer at jobs@weareoneamerica.org with the subject line “Communications Assistant”

• Cover letter

• Resume

• Three examples of written work, preferably published, that demonstrate your writing style and ability

• Links to examples of your website work

• Examples of graphic design skills

• Examples of online video (if applicable)

• Any additional materials that demonstrate your design, web or writing ability

• Salary requirements

Potential finalists will be asked to interview and may be asked to complete a test of their tech/web abilities.

Please no drop-ins, calls or faxes.

CANDIDATES OF COLOR ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

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