COMMUNITY OUTREACH SPECIALIST
Chinatown Service Center
Los Angeles, CA, US
Full-time
Job Description
Job Description
Job purpose
A Community Outreach Specialist is responsible to engage and educate the community about the organization and its goals. The duties include but not limited to acting as a liaison with community partners to further the organization goals, take part in community fundraising events and identify a respective sponsor list, recruitment of potential clients, and volunteer recruitment.
Duties and responsibilities
- Develop and implement outreach strategies by organizing virtual workshops, events, and education / training programs to increase community awareness about our organization and programs / projects
- Write content pieces, press releases, announcements, and newsletters, to inform internal staff and the public about organization’s projects, services, and upcoming events
- Collaborate with public relations / development team to ensure community outreach and engagement activities are consistent with our brand and organization’s culture
- Draft and submit reports, presentations, and pitches for related projects
- Conduct street / community outreach events on a weekly basis
- Create and distribute outreach materials
- Document each outreach contacts during or after each outreach excursion
- Responsible for tallying monthly outreach contacts and completing reports
- Conduct educational presentation and workshop on health-related topics at schools and community locations
- Develop and sustain positive relationship with a range of people, including community leaders, local groups and organizations, and local authorities
- Working as part of a team to support and sustain community-led action around issues related to health and wellbeing
- Working as part of a team to organize and hold events that draw in and involve local residents and partners
- Supporting face-to-face, online and print communication and marketing activities
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in communications, design or a related field or equivalent experience. Two years of relevant experience.
- Comfortable and knowledgeable of the health care and behavioral health industry
- Strong presentation skills
- Experience of using creative platforms for community engagement, such as design, art, photography or video
- Experience of producing deliverables for a range of audiences, including reports, presentations and blogs.
- Capability to work professionally with many constituencies, personalities and workstyles (e.g., staff, partners, participants, vendors, donors, and volunteers) to meet deadlines
- Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work in a team environment and independently. Must be flexible in a fast-paced setting and able to work under deadline pressure with multiple priorities
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationships and actively contribute as a member of working teams to achieve results
- Must be customer service-minded in the interaction, planning and execution of all projects
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours as needed
- Must have a valid driver’s license and clear Department of Motor Vehicles record. This position requires the employee to drive
Direct reports
Prevention Manager
1 day ago