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EASTHUB
Consensus Organizer
Job Description
Seeking applicants who are defined by most or all the following words: Diverse, Inquisitive, Connector, Convener, Forward Thinker, Entrepreneurial, Multi-tasker, Team Player, Relationship Builder
Position: Consensus Organizer for the Eastside’s Indian/South Asian Communities
Position Status: Contractor – Part Time
Reports to: Director of Cultural Connections
ABOUT EASTHUB
EastHUB is a non-profit 5013c community development organization with a mission to help reshape Bellevue and the Greater Eastside into a regional hub for arts and culture through the creation of an innovative, embedded infrastructure of cross-cultural gathering spaces. Our goal is to be a catalyst for this development through an inclusive partnership model that brings developers, municipal and regional governments, arts organizations, culture groups, businesses, and the Eastside’s diverse residents together to imagine and design new cultural gathering spaces. This partnership will capitalize on the opportunities the region’s tremendous growth presents to develop a shared, sustainable network of flexible, tech-forward arts and cultural spaces across the Eastside region: Offering the social and cross-cultural amenities and experiences our community needs.
Our Organizing Principles
Centering EDI
We will reimagine how Arts and Culture can become truly antiracist, equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Creating Access
We will create avenues for equitable access and diversified programming through community engagement and consensus organizing.
Building Efficiencies
We will build strategic alliances and partnerships with diverse organizations and address logistical hurdles for organizations by providing facilities and services.
Community Collaboration
We believe in brokering and fostering creative and cost-saving alliances among Business, Arts and Cultural Organizations, Developers, Civic Leaders, and Residents.
Sustainable Arts & Culture
We believe in creating frameworks that will foster a thriving multicultural creative sector as a resource for our community for generations to come.
About Consensus Organizing
Consensus Organizing is a method of community engagement that focuses on finding and developing areas of mutual self-interest between community stakeholders. It embodies and reflects EastHUB’s commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion. Our goal through this process is to develop meaningful relationships and partnerships among community residents, and stakeholders, and external influences to facilitate positive and tangible community change. This process translates into creating access, providing educational opportunities, building a diverse audience, and providing strong logistical support and access to shared services.
POSITION ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
EastHUB is seeking an individual with strong relationships within, and deep knowledge of, the Eastside’s Indian and South Asian communities to join our team as a Consensus Organizer. The principal function of this role is to start conversations and seed relationships between EastHUB and individuals and organizations within the targeted communities for the purpose of identifying and developing areas of mutual self-interest that contribute to the larger goal of developing a comprehensive ecosystem of active cross-cultural spaces.
Objectives & Deliverables
Identify members of the Indian/South Asian community who support Arts and Cultural activities in the Greater Seattle area
Identify arts and cultural organizations that work with Indian/South Asian communities
Send out surveys and collate data from community members and Arts and Cultural organizations
Solicit and attend one-on-one meetings with community and cultural leaders, facilitate meetings with relevant community and cultural organizations, plus attend appropriate community meetings to achieve Consensus Organizing goals
Provide consistent feedback to EastHUB with well documented contact reports including all relevant information, quotes, photos, and/or videos to assist with the creation of the findings report
Distribute and discuss EastHUB collateral material as appropriate
Be present at and lead consensus organized gatherings
Write a final report including contact information on all partners
Qualifications
An outgoing personality, enjoys meeting and engaging with new people
Experience as a cultural worker / activist / community organizer in the Eastside area preferred, but not required
Familiarity with and/or existing relationships within the Eastside’s South Asian community including service organizations, the arts community, or educational organizations.
Strong writing skills
Deadline, results, and detail-oriented
Excellent communications/listening skills
Relentless, Self-starter and driven
Team player, relaxed, fun and humorous
Compensation
$45/Hour
Hours – Part Time, 10-12 Hours/week
It is anticipated that the Organizer will be engaged for approximately 10-12 hours per week, for a period of up to 6 months. Most of the work can be done remotely initially, with face-to-face meetings taking place as conditions allow. Hours are flexible.
TO APPLY
Please submit a resume and cover letter, plus anything else you want to send us that demonstrates why you are the ideal candidate for this job
Submissions should be sent to: Jobs@easthub.org
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled;
Engagement will begin on or around April 1, 2021
EastHUB’s goal is to be a diverse organization that is representative, at all levels, of the community we serve. EastHUB is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws. osting on LinkedIn:
EASTHUB
Consensus Organizer Job Description
Seeking applicants who are defined by most or all the following words: Diverse, Inquisitive, Connector, Convener, Forward Thinker, Entrepreneurial, Multi-tasker, Team Player, Relationship Builder
Position: Consensus Organizer for the Eastside’s Indian/South Asian Communities
Position Status: Contractor – Part Time
Reports to: Director of Cultural Connections
ABOUT EASTHUB
EastHUB is a non-profit 5013c community development organization with a mission to help reshape Bellevue and the Greater Eastside into a regional hub for arts and culture through the creation of an innovative, embedded infrastructure of cross-cultural gathering spaces. Our goal is to be a catalyst for this development through an inclusive partnership model that brings developers, municipal and regional governments, arts organizations, culture groups, businesses, and the Eastside’s diverse residents together to imagine and design new cultural gathering spaces. This partnership will capitalize on the opportunities the region’s tremendous growth presents to develop a shared, sustainable network of flexible, tech-forward arts and cultural spaces across the Eastside region: Offering the social and cross-cultural amenities and experiences our community needs.
OUR ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES
Centering EDI: We will reimagine how Arts and Culture can become truly antiracist, equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Creating Access: We will create avenues for equitable access and diversified programming through community engagement and consensus organizing.
Building Efficiencies: We will build strategic alliances and partnerships with diverse organizations and address logistical hurdles for organizations by providing facilities and services.
Community Collaboration : We believe in brokering and fostering creative and cost-saving alliances among Business, Arts and Cultural Organizations, Developers, Civic Leaders, and Residents.
Sustainable Arts & Culture : We believe in creating frameworks that will foster a thriving multicultural creative sector as a resource for our community for generations to come.
ABOUT CONSENSUS ORGANIZING
Consensus Organizing is a method of community engagement that focuses on finding and developing areas of mutual self-interest between community stakeholders. It embodies and reflects EastHUB’s commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion. Our goal through this process is to develop meaningful relationships and partnerships among community residents, and stakeholders, and external influences to facilitate positive and tangible community change. This process translates into creating access, providing educational opportunities, building a diverse audience, and providing strong logistical support and access to shared services.
POSITION ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
EastHUB is seeking an individual with strong relationships within, and deep knowledge of, the Eastside’s Indian and South Asian communities to join our team as a Consensus Organizer. The principal function of this role is to start conversations and seed relationships between EastHUB and individuals and organizations within the targeted communities for the purpose of identifying and developing areas of mutual self-interest that contribute to the larger goal of developing a comprehensive ecosystem of active cross-cultural spaces.
OBJECTIVES AND DELIVERABLES
Identify members of the Indian/South Asian community who support Arts and Cultural activities in the Greater Seattle area
Identify arts and cultural organizations that work with Indian/South Asian communities
Send out surveys and collate data from community members and Arts and Cultural organizations
Solicit and attend one-on-one meetings with community and cultural leaders, facilitate meetings with relevant community and cultural organizations, plus attend appropriate community meetings to achieve Consensus Organizing goals
Provide consistent feedback to EastHUB with well documented contact reports including all relevant information, quotes, photos, and/or videos to assist with the creation of the findings report
Distribute and discuss EastHUB collateral material as appropriate
Be present at and lead consensus organized gatherings
Write a final report including contact information on all partners
QUALIFICATIONS
An outgoing personality, enjoys meeting and engaging with new people
Experience as a cultural worker / activist / community organizer in the Eastside area preferred, but not required
Familiarity with and/or existing relationships within the Eastside’s South Asian community including service organizations, the arts community, or educational organizations.
Strong writing skills
Deadline, results, and detail-oriented
Excellent communications/listening skills
Relentless, Self-starter and driven
Team player, relaxed, fun and humorous
Compensation: $45/Hour
Hours – Part Time, 10-12 Hours/week
It is anticipated that the Organizer will be engaged for approximately 10-12 hours per week, for a period of up to 6 months. Most of the work can be done remotely initially, with face-to-face meetings taking place as conditions allow. Hours are flexible.
TO APPLY
Please submit a resume and cover letter, plus anything else you want to send us that demonstrates why you are the ideal candidate for this job
Submissions should be sent to: Jobs@easthub.org
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled;
Engagement will begin on or around April 1, 2021
EastHUB’s goal is to be a diverse organization that is representative, at all levels, of the community we serve. EastHUB is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
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Date Submitted: 03/24/2021