Community Program Coordinator

About the Role

The Heartland Environmental Justice Center (HEJC) at Wichita State University supports communities and organizations who serve underrepresented and disadvantaged communities in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, and adjoining Indigenous Nations capitalize on their capacity to make meaningful advances towards environmental justice and energy equity. The HEJC helps a variety of audiences identify and pursue sources of funding and other innovative pathways to improving environmental conditions and engaging communities in environmental decision-making processes. Community Program Coordinators are cooperative partners that provide assessment, training, and technical assistance that promote advancement of environmental and energy justice in the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential program participants eligible for services.
• Assist program participants with community assessments to identify opportunities to address environmental and/or energy justice challenges.
• Coordinate and/or assist with community engagement activities (e.g. public meetings, listening sessions, online engagement) to gather input on local environmental and/or energy justice challenges.
• Coordinate and/or facilitate training for program participants on a variety of topics including grant writing/management and effective community engagement.
• Assist participants through grant application and management processes.
• Provide other training and technical assistance identified through community assessments and engagement.
• Assist in service delivery to community, governmental and/or associated organizations which may include, but is not limited to, training, technical assistance, financial analysis, survey development, strategic planning, and regulatory review.
• Perform program research, financial analysis, survey development and analysis, regulatory analysis, social media analysis, and other data collection and analysis.
• Develop and provides training, technical assistance and community engagement to organizations.
• Prepare, process and edit financial or operational information, data and documents, including budgets, materials for meetings, special projects and reports.
• Assist with preparation of work plans, budgets, and reports.
• May represent organization and present at regional meetings and/or conferences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in public administration, finance, environmental or related field by hire date.
• One (1) year of experience in research, data collection, analysis and reporting or related field.
• Understanding of environmental justice and/or energy justice issues experienced in rural and/or urban communities.
• Ability to work with traditionally underserved populations, in either urban or rural and remote communities.
• Demonstrated ability with grant writing, management, and/or grant budget and concept development.
• Demonstrated ability to speak in front of groups, lead and/or teach groups of adults, and work one-on-one or in small groups to provide guidance and information on environmental and/or energy justice topics.
• Understanding of community engagement and/or community organizing strategies.
• Ability to build and sustain effective professional and courteous interpersonal relationships with a diverse constituency that may include university staff, faculty, and students, environmental professionals and practitioners, elected and appointed officials at the local, state, and federal level, agency professionals, nonprofit leaders, and community organizers.
• Ability to travel regionally and nationally, including overnight trips.

Schedule

Full-time, regular work hours are 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.

Location

Remote. If working remote, you must live in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, or Missouri. This position can also be in person.

Pay

Salary range begins at $43,000 and is commensurate with experience.