Communication Specialist

1 month ago

Calumet Park, United States Roseland Ceasefire Project Inc. Full time
Job Title: Communication Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled Communication Specialist to join our team at Roseland Ceasefire Project Inc. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in communication, social media, and community outreach.

Job Summary:

The Communication Specialist will be responsible for monitoring social media for indicators of potential violence, monitoring police/fire bands for emerging violence, and communicating issues/incidents in real-time to the Lead and the Program Manager. Duties will also include developing and distributing public education material and public service announcements through traditional media and sanctioned social platforms.

Responsibilities:
  • Mine social media and other websites to provide current and possible future violent behavior and intent to the violence prevention team lead (VPTL)
  • Create and maintain violence heat maps for the community RCF serves
  • Perform RCF incident response team dispatch responsibilities
  • Participate in organizing responses to shootings and other community news by creating and publishing official RCF notifications through press releases, social media posts, websites, and podcasts
  • Provide RCF communication standards training to newly onboarded staff
  • Own the logistics of community meetings by developing the budget, acquiring the venue, providing refreshments, and coordinating set-up and break-down activities
  • Develop and publish agendas for various community meetings
  • Solicit RCF and guest speakers for various community meetings
  • Attend weekly staff meetings and/or meet with supervisor as needed
  • Document detailed status reports
  • Participate in all mandatory trainings and undertake any training and professional development as and when required
Requirements:
  • High School Diploma/GED required. Bachelors' degree in Journalism or Sociology with Journalism minor preferred. Associates' degree or significant experience is acceptable
  • At least three years' experience writing technical or functional training manuals and procedures
  • Experience recording, editing, and publishing video
  • At least two years' experience working with people from various ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds, both as colleagues and as clientele
  • At least one year in a training/onboarding capacity
  • Candidate must feel comfortable engaging with community-based services and organizations
  • Experience developing and retaining relationships with other service providers
  • Proven crisis intervention training or knowledge
  • Ability to demonstrate critical thinking
  • Experience producing management-level reports
  • Requires mobility to work with a community-based caseload
  • Ability to maintain assigned community and home-based services
  • Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups
Qualification Requirements:
  • Demonstrate ability to work with high-risk, street-involved individuals
  • Demonstrate firsthand knowledge of the community and knowledge of current street conflicts required
  • Experience or training in crisis intervention preferred
  • Willingness to learn and commit to the principles of nonviolence, restorative justice, and trauma-informed practices
Physical Demands:

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel, and crouch.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing and viewing a computer monitor.

The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Compensation:

Salary - To Be Discussed

How to Apply:

Submit cover letter, resume, and three references

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