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Feb 13, 2012, 12:05:12 PM2/13/12
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Position Opening at Allen Neighborhood Center


Health and Housing Outreach Director

Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC) is seeking an experienced organizer and/or program manager to oversee its holistic and integrated set of health and housing initiatives.  This key member of the ANC Leadership Team will perform the following:

  • Organize and oversee ANC’s vigorous outreach efforts to link neighbors with health and housing programs, resources, and opportunities.
  •  In partnership with our Restoration Works partners (LCC and Ingham County Land Bank) plan and promote educational activities focusing on energy efficiency, restoration, and healthy homes.
  • Oversee ANC programs to improve community health, including IHP enrollment, referrals to medical homes, breast health advocacy, and linkage to ANC food and fitness related programs.
  • Serve as lead staff on planning and implementation of World Day in Hunter Park and the Eastside Women’s Health Picnic.
  • Supervise the engagement and mobilization of residents in support of organized neighborhood groups and as volunteers for ANC’s wide range of programs.
  • Work as an integral member of the ANC Leadership Team to leverage, coordinate and support ANC's comprehensive and integrative approach to community development.

 Candidate Profile: Successful candidates must possess a genuine passion for place-making and neighborhood revitalization as well as a work ethic that can handle the broad responsibility of our Health and Housing Outreach Director. Work loads and meetings expand before and after the typical 8 – 5 weekday work period. Qualities that we seek include:

  • Passion and Energy: A successful candidate will demonstrate a high level of commitment to work and personal belief in their mission. In particular, a successful candidate must possess a personal and professional passion for urban revitalization and community building.
  • Excellent communication skills and very high comfort level for engaging the rich mix of people living and working on Lansing’s Eastside. Successful candidates must deeply embrace the diversity of the population of the neighborhood that will be encountered and must be promoted on a daily basis.
  • Well-developed organizational and supervisory skills to successfully manage complex and over-lapping projects and to supervise the ANC interns, AmeriCorps, and volunteers that are key to ANC's program success.
  •  In depth knowledge and use of outreach and engagement techniques, including door to door canvassing, use of posters/flyers/newsletters, and internet-based approaches.   
  • Comfort with advocating for the organization and projects, conducting media interviews and presentations.
  • Strong events coordination, promotion, and related skills.
  • Ability to smoothly handle many tasks, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • A strong sense of team approach to decision making and helping one another to be successful. At the same time, the candidate must possess a strong sense of independence in implementing and creating successful programs and relationships.
  • Deep familiarity with, and commitment to, Lansing's Eastside.

To apply, please send resume by Monday, February 20 to:  Joan Nelson, Director at jo...@allenneighborhoodcenter.org or 1619 E. Kalamazoo Street, Lansing, MI 48912.   Questions can be directed to Joan by calling 517-999-3912.  

 

About Allen Neighborhood Center

Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC), founded in 1999, is a dynamic hub for neighborhood revitalization.  While much of our community-building work has focused on our neighbors in the northeast quadrant of the Capital City, we partner with and provide resources to stakeholders across Mid-Michigan. We do comprehensive and integrative community development, having discovered the value of simultaneous effort in health, housing, food security and social capital building.  Outside the Eastside, our best known initiatives include the Allen Street Farmers Market, Hunter Park GardenHouse, and Restoration Works.  Within the Eastside, we are known for robust engagement and mobilization of neighbors to create a livable, sustainable and healthy community.   

 

The Eastside of Lansing is home to a diverse mix of people from a variety of socio-economic, cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds.  This rich blend of ideas, lifestyles, and traditions is reflected in a long history of people committed to preserving and improving their neighborhood and celebrating its uniqueness. 

 



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Joan Nelson, Director
Allen Neighborhood Center
1619 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48912
517-999-3912



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Joan Nelson, Director
Allen Neighborhood Center
1619 E. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48912
517-999-3912
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