Community Outreach Leader Job Description

Community Outreach Leaders are organized and responsible community members interested in a short-term leadership opportunity. (The Community Partners in your Community) are working on an environmental justice project to educate local communities about the relationship between health and climate change. Our goal is to contact and document outreach to 100 households in the community in either English, Spanish or Creole.

We are seeking two community members with strong community ties and organizational ability to manage an educational outreach initiative and survey data collection in their neighborhood. Each Outreach Leader will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Identifying 5-10 outreach communicators from the target area
• Ensuring and documenting that Outreach Communicators attend two training sessions offered by ReAct Tool Kit organizers.
• Approving Outreach Communicator plans.
• Distributing blank Outreach Reports, and collecting completed Outreach Reports from their team
• Ensuring that 10 reports (a total of 50 households) are contacted in the target neighborhood
• Entering the data from the paper surveys into an online survey using a computer, smart phone or tablet.
• Answering questions from their team of Outreach Communicators.
• Preparing 1-2 page “debriefing” report at the conclusion of the Outreach phase.
• Serving as a liaison between Outreach Communicators and ReAct Tool Kit organizers.
• Presenting information learned through this Outreach effort at a community meeting organized in partnership with ReAct Tool Kit organizers.Minimum Skill Requirements:

• Resident of the designated community or employed in it.
• Strong community connections, leadership and organizational skills
• Able to read and write English, Spanish or Creole at a high school level.
• Ability to supervise and manage 15-20 workers
• Computer literacy to complete input of survey data into a web portal
• Administrative and math skills to handle disbursement of gift card compensation to team members.
• Return all collected data to ReACT Tool Kit organizers
• Ability to present results at a community meeting.Time Commitment: Approximately 50 hours total over the 12 weeks from mid-March through mid-June broken down as follows:

• 21⁄2 hour Climate and Health training session
• 4 hours Forms used in the Project and Outreach communication practice
• Approximately 35 hours between managing and collaborating with Outreach Communicators to ensure output goal of 50 households is achieved.
• Approximately 71⁄2 hours to input survey data and prepare de-briefing report
• Approximately 1 hour at a community meeting to present results.