Consultant

3 weeks ago

Richmond, United States Transformative Changes Full time

Consultant


Transformative Changes is a Black-woman-owned social enterprise with a mission to defy the status quo in pursuit of justice and human liberation. Our work centers transformation of self, relationships, and community by tackling individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism. We combine expertise in healing-centered engagement, cultural organizing, and social and systems change with intersectional approaches to center people as agents in the creation of their own well-being in the social justice movement space. 


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POSITION: Consultant | POSITION TYPE: Contractual 

LOCATION: Based in Richmond (Hybrid Role - Mostly Virtual) 


DESCRIPTION


Transformative Changes is seeking a Consultant with an area of expertise in participatory policymaking using community-based participatory action research and analysis. The consultant should have an expertise in the development of policy solutions from start to finish, including policy and research analysis, community organizing, and direct and indirect lobbying. 

The consutlant will work with a variety of stakeholders, such as clients, community members, public representatives, coalitions, nonprofits, and agencies to address the needs and aspirations of communities. The consultant’s services may include engaging with community members, conducting research and analysis, assessing strengths and weaknesses, developing and facilitating engagement processes, gathering input from diverse groups, designing and managing projects and strategies, evaluating impact, and building relationships.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES


PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION


  • Helps community groups, organizations, and institutions plan, implement, and evaluate community initiatives. 
  • Creates and implements a strategy to work towards the desired scope of work and its goals.
  • Establishes self as an expert within assigned scope of work using pre-existing knowledge while proactively learning new information within the assigned area. 
  • Communicates promptly to team members, clients, partners, coalitions, and networks. 
  • Contributes to the development and implementation of the organization’s strategic plan in collaboration with Chief Executives. 
  • Actively supports the goals of the organization, contracts, and clients by executing additional duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
  • Actively participates in meetings and organizational-wide events. 
  • Serves as project lead, supervises, and/or delegates tasks to supporting contractor(s) as needed. 


PARTICIPATORY POLICYMAKING 


  • Serves as a consultant in domains related to public health and participatory policymaking to engage the community members in the development and implementation of policy. 
  • Conducts policy and research development in coordination with partner organizations to create policy proposals, briefs, products, and recommendations that impact public health outcomes.  
  • Uses data to identify trends related to the social determinants of health that inform policy, outreach, and advocacy response. 
  • Orchestrates community-based participatory action research in coordination with the client or partner organizations to create policy proposals, briefs, products, and recommendations that impact the public health, equity, social justice related outcomes of community members.
  • Creates, convenes, and supports policy networks and/or community coalitions/and/or work groups to collective community impact and mobilize change. 
  • Fosters effective relationships with community members, key legislators, legislative staff, elected officials, appointed officials, local and state government policy makers, reporters, private and public organizations.
  • Engages in timely and aggressive follow up with leads, community members, public officials, and partners through one-on-one meetings and other methods of grasstops and grassroots outreach.
  • Conducts training and workshops on a variety of topics, including public health, civic engagement, storytelling, authentic community engagement, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. 


QUALIFICATIONS


We are seeking a candidate who is committed to the Transformative Changes mission of igniting social and systems change in pursuit of justice and human liberation. This includes a commitment to individual, interpersonal, and systems-oriented change to advance equality, fairness, and justice. The candidate has an area of expertise in intersectionality and is comfortable working on policy, advocacy, and civic engagement projects that improve community outcomes with a broad concentration in public health and social justice. 


  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and knowledge preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in policy and legislative advocacy or relevant fields preferred.
  • Ability to effectively analyze and interpret data.
  • Excellent writing and speaking skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex policy information to a variety of audiences.
  • Experience in understanding and addressing racial/ethnic disparities.
  • A proven track record in maintaining strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, including historically marginalized communities and communities of color.
  • A social entrepreneurial spirit; able to work independently and collaborate effectively towards desired goals.
  • Strong conflict resolution skills.
  • Experience successfully managing multiple projects from start to finish and the organization of them.
  • Applies a trauma-informed, healing-centered, equity-informed, and just lens to all responsibilities.
  • Commits personally and professionally to transformation of self, community, and relationships. 
  • Humble and responsive to constructive criticism. 
  • A minimum one-year commitment to the position.


COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS


This is a contractual position without benefits. The hourly range for the position is $25.00 - $50.00 commensurate with experience. Please visit and submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to ceo@transformativechanges.org. Incomplete applications will not be considered.


In the pursuit of justice and human liberation, Transformative Changes defies the status quo. We believe community is one of the building blocks of society and center historically marginalized communities in our work to build power within and shift power to disenfranchised people. We specialize in intersectionality to empower community leaders across a variety of industries to foster growth and societal progress. Our work targets the individual, interpersonal, and systemic forms of racism through programs and services that center healing workers, culture workers, and ubuntu workers striving to ignite transformative change. We are an equal opportunity employer.

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