Alliance for Children's Rights

Community Engagement Associate

Alliance for Children's Rights

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Alaska • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $60,170 - $72,200 per year

About the role

  • Recruit volunteers to start or join UNICEF Clubs and/or other youth engagement and advocacy opportunities aligned with UNICEF USA priorities.
  • Cultivate, train, support, and manage a portfolio of highly engaged youth volunteers in assigned regional markets in support of child rights to advance child wellbeing.
  • Engage volunteers in civic engagement efforts to advocate, fundraise, raise awareness, and serve communities in support of UNICEF and child wellbeing.
  • Provide specialized support in one of two key areas: Developing youth-centric content in support of priority actions including campaigns, fundraisers, days of actions, and educational resources.
  • Support the development and execution of strategic recruitment and retention tactics and activities across all regions.
  • In key markets, activate volunteers in support of strategic initiatives with Municipal Partners.
  • Train and support volunteers and clubs to ensure brand alignment, child safeguarding, data privacy, and other volunteer business rules are adhered to.
  • Conduct trainings and workshops with a variety of audiences (with a focus on youth) to expand UNICEF's reach within the United States in support of children’s rights to advance child wellbeing and priority issues.
  • Lead development and provide input for promotion of toolkits and resources produced for volunteers.
  • Collect volunteer impact stories for social media channels, website, media, and internal reporting.
  • Work in collaboration with internal teams to maintain relationships with local, state, and federal elected officials to push for policy change.
  • Work in partnership with internal teams to support Congressional engagements with volunteers throughout the year, which will include federal, state-specific and local advocacy actions.
  • Champion youth engagement and support meaningful youth collaboration on webinars, trainings, advocacy, and youth voice.
  • Support UNICEF USA national campaigns such as Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, World Children’s Day, International Day of Play, and other awareness building events, and priority issues.
  • Adhere to child safeguarding requirements to ensure the best interests of children in everything we do.
  • Routinely document volunteer information, interactions, and events in the constituent management database of record.
  • Provide insights and feedback on process and tool improvements to maximize team performance and accelerate and advance towards goals.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of one year related experience with community organizing, advocacy, volunteer constituent management, and/or youth engagement or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • General knowledge and interest in child rights, advocacy, and youth engagement
  • General understanding of mass communications strategies, digital engagement, and campaigns
  • Experience in youth development, civic engagement or education with high school and college age students.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential, both written and verbal
  • Proven ability to train and empower others to organize at scale
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize, work independently, handle multiple complex tasks simultaneously, and to generate pragmatic solutions to challenges
  • Strong customer service approach to interactions with colleagues and partners
  • Ability to navigate complex environments and help build relationships with a variety of diverse stakeholders
  • Strong organizational and administrative skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Canva and Outlook
  • Ability to track, conduct follow-up and document outcomes of volunteers and campaigns in a centralized constituent relationship database
  • Experience contributing to and promoting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging in a team setting
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule that includes weekend and evening commitments and travel
  • Must possess current and valid US Work Authorization and be eligible to work for any US employer without sponsorship.
Benefits
  • Health care and immunizations
  • Safe water and sanitation
  • Nutrition
  • Education
  • Emergency relief
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