Why Work Here?

Richmond Community Foundation’s (RCF Connects) goal is to create healthy, sustainable communities in Contra Costa County. We believe in the Theory of Change, in which we identify a realistic long-term goal and consider what conditions need to be in place to reach it. The majority of our long-term goals entail measuring and tackling social and economic challenges that local residents face.

We take our community’s issues seriously and are continuously searching for concerned listeners, earnest thinkers, capable communicators, talented problem-solvers, and devoted professionals who want to learn, grow and most importantly, make the communities of Contra Costa County healthy and sustainable for the people who work, live and thrive here.

A career at RCF Connects offers countless opportunities, an empowered workforce, and a supportive environment.  We pride ourselves in recognizing our associates’ and teams’ successes in our goal to solve our community’s most urgent concerns.

When you join RCF Connects, you’ll find a culture where every person is a vital part of the solution and an essential voice of the community.  We aim to be a safe place for anyone on our staff to learn, explore and grow.  Ultimately, we strive to generate tangible results that will change the way our entire community works, lives and succeeds.

JOB OPENINGS

Project Coordinator of Policy and Systems Change

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The Healthy Contra Costa Initiative (HCC) is committed to racial and health equity goals and actively supports collective campaign strategies that aim to shift systems policy and practice to benefit low-income communities and communities of color. As HCC moves toward sustainability over the next 10 years, the partners envision a transformed community where resident leaders (youth & adults), community-based organizations, and system leaders work together to demand equity in education, economy, healthcare and safe communities to increase race equity and eliminate racism. To advance this vision HCC must empower and mobilize organizational and resident leadership most impacted by race inequity and anti-Blackness to transform and make radical changes to address racism in our community and systems to build power and reallocate resources. To learn more, please visit our HCC website https://healthyrichmond.net

The Healthy Contra Costa Project Coordinator of Policy and Systems Change is a new position that will support HCC functions related to supporting community-centered policy advocacy. The position reports to the Senior Director of HCC. Responsibilities include project coordination, systems building strategies, and data analysis. The Coordinator for Policy and Systems change will focus on facilitating meetings at cross-sector tables and multicultural coalitions that will advance health equity in systems, including CCH; this will be accomplished through equitable democratized data collection, the creation of inclusive ecosystems across health systems and community organizations and, and the development of equitable accountability measures. This position will work to elevate the voices of CCC’s historically marginalized communities, their intersections, and the specific challenges these populations face due to institutional racism and inequities related to the social determinants of health.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate relevant HCC activities related to the recruitment and support of community partners and system leaders in CCC to support the collective work of HCC.
  • Work closely with HR Senior Director, Policy Manager and Resident Leadership Manager to provide support and training to immigrant resident leaders across Contra Costa to help community members use their lived experiences to participate in an immigrant health alliance and advocate for policy and systems changes advancing health equity.
  • Lead and facilitate the cross-sector tables in ways that motivate specific outcomes, establish accountability, and incorporate race and health equity strategies into the project, resulting in actions owned by the community, and opportunities for new community leadership.
  • Act as a liaison with the project’s collaborative partners and system leaders to ensure effective coordination of training sessions, community events and participation in county-level policy advocacy.
  • Facilitate ongoing dialogue, collaboration, and resident engagement with diverse groups of stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
  • Leverage community partnerships and opportunities within the Healthy Contra Costanetwork of partners in Contra Costa County, and related coalitions, to advance the project work and the HCC outcomes, as appropriate.
  • Assist in social media strategies related to this project, including e-mail blasts, and social media strategies to engage the broader community.
  • Develop community-based research data collection and analysis framework to track systems changes and programmatic outcomes advancing racial and health equity.
  • Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis on community-based research, summarizing descriptive statistics and themes to support systems policy advocacy strategies.
  • Support and connect local, state, and federal policy advocacy efforts to engage coalition and community partners in relevant campaigns and adapt campaigns accordingly.

Required Qualifications

  • 2 years of relevant experience in providing support to community-based activities including training, participatory research and/or neighborhood-based community educational activities. Recent Census canvassing is also considered relevant experience.
  • Knowledge and experience of community organizing in and with communities of color.
  • Knowledge of public health prevention-focused initiatives.
  • Ability to facilitate strong processes including the ability to establish agendas and goals, manage complex relationships and resolve conflict.
  • Experience understanding and incorporating the perspective of impacted communities into campaign goals and decisions about the project.
  • Knowledge of system policy/practices in Contra Costa County that directly impact health and racial outcomes in communities that have been underrepresented and underserved.
  • Experience and understanding of the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and the impacts on communities that have historically been under-resourced or marginalized to have access to and power in making decisions that directly impact their lives.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in preparing materials and presenting and submitting written reports to diverse audiences. Ability to adapt communication styles to diverse audiences.
  • Self-motivated, reliable and strong interest in committing to the HCC’s Initiative’s work.
  • Cultural humility to work effectively with a team of ethnically and racially diverse colleagues and various leaders within the HCC structure.
  • The position is hybrid with remote work on Mondays and Fridays and Office days Tuesday-Thursday at the Healthy Contra Costa office located at 1015 Nevin Avenue, Richmond, CA
  • Must be able to work evenings and weekends as needed. Some travel outside the Richmond area will also be required.

Salary/Benefits: Full Time Equivalent (FTE), Hybrid schedule Salary is equivalent to $56,800 per year with prorated health benefits, vacation, and sick leave.

The position will be open until filled. Please send a cover letter and resume via e-mail to:

Jim Becker, CEO, RCF Connects, jbecker@richmondcf.org

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Project Manager- Resident Leadership

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The Healthy Contra Costa Initiative (HCC) is committed to racial and health equity goals and actively supports collective campaign strategies that aim to shift systems policy and practice to benefit low-income communities and communities of color. As HCC moves toward sustainability over the next 10 years, the partners envision a transformed community where resident leaders (youth & adults), community-based organizations, and system leaders work together to demand equity in education, economy, healthcare and safe communities to increase race equity and eliminate racism. To advance this vision HCC must empower and mobilize organizational and resident leadership most impacted by race inequity and anti-Blackness to transform and make radical changes to address racism in our community and systems to build power and reallocate resources. To learn more, please visit our HCC website https://healthyrichmond.net

RCF Connects is the host agency for Healthy Contra Costa. RCF Connects’ intent is to enable the operation of a strong, integrated partnership with its initiatives. RCF Connects is a non-profit 501(c) that employs the key staff who provide ongoing support and coordination for the work of the Healthy Contra Costa Initiative.

The Project Manager for Resident Leadership assumes responsibility for the implementation of resident power-building strategies within our policy advocacy campaigns. Coordinates the collective work within the HCC network and resident leaders; works with other initiatives as necessary. Healthy Contra Costa seeks a full-time Project Manager who will support functions related to our Healthy Contra Costa (HCC) Initiative including community organizing activities focused on resident power building, project coordination tasks related to HCC collective meetings and events, communications and other duties as assigned. The HCC Initiative is dedicated to addressing physical, social, and economic factors and systems by working with multiple sectors and stakeholders, from individuals to large public systems. This position will report to the Healthy Contra Costa Senior Director and is based in our Richmond office. It is a hybrid position, 2 days remote and 3 days in the office.

Responsibilities

Responsible for staffing resident-led campaign activities in the areas of economic justice, access to healthcare and education at the county, city, and local school district levels.

  • Facilitation of the development and implementation of resident leadership strategies and training, including resident and youth capacity to engage and lead policy advocacy and systems work; and increase leadership in HR activities and the community in general.
  • Provide programmatic support for Action Team and campaign meetings for which they have a lead responsibility- including scheduling, location set up, meeting prep support, processing agendas and minutes, and communications to partners (reminder emails, action items, follow-up).
  • Provide logistic and program support for HR special events including but not limited to Steering Committee meetings and other organized events.
  • Ensures that Healthy Richmond collaborative members are connected via online platforms such as Facebook, Outlook, and other appropriate means, and that information is distributed to all members of the HR collective, including those without Internet access and whose primary language is not English.
  • Maintain a flexible work schedule, as meetings and events will occur outside normal office hours, including evenings and weekends. Some travel outside the Richmond area will also be required. 

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in community organizing, policy advocacy, and/or public health prevention-focused initiatives.
  • Some experience working in non-profit, government, or public sectors; experience in working across sectors and low-income communities is highly desirable.
  • Process facilitation capacity, including the ability to set meeting agendas and goals, host resident leadership training sessions, manage complex relationships and resolve conflict.
  • Project management skills including the ability to guide vision and strategy, advance policy and support aligned activities, and have excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Self-motivated, reliable, and strong interest in committing to the HR Initiative’s work.
  • Some knowledge of the economic, political, and social environments of Richmond.
  • Ability to be flexible, multi-task, plan and prioritize workload and work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong professional caliber communication skills with proficiency in using multiple social media channels including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, interactive websites and blogs. Some understanding of underlying principles for the use of media advocacy utilizing social media to promote community organizing and policy advocacy goals.
  • Ability to compose, edit, design and produce communications including flyers and event invitations.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Canva and other media platforms.
  • Able to work with diverse community members including the ability to effectively create alliances between groups.
  • Bilingual in Spanish and the ability to perform interpretation and written translation is highly preferred.
  • Have access to reliable transportation and are willing to use it for job-related tasks.

Compensation/Benefits

  • This is an exempt, full-time position.
  • The salary is $66,414 annually.
  • Competitive benefits package including employer-paid health insurance, paid time off, and matching 401K retirement plan.
  • Professional/leadership development opportunities.
  • Flexible work schedule.
  • A workplace culture committed to supporting a good quality of life for employees; this includes offering remote work capability and other options.

How to Apply:

Please send a cover letter and resume via e-mail to:

Roxanne Carrillo Garza, MSW  – rcgarza@richmondcf.org

RCF Connects is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.

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Resident Organizer

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The Healthy Contra Costa Initiative (HCC) is committed to racial and health equity goals and actively supports collective campaign strategies that aim to shift systems policy and practice to benefit low-income communities and communities of color. As HCC moves toward sustainability over the next 10 years, the partners envision a transformed community where resident leaders (youth & adults), community-based organizations, and system leaders work together to demand equity in education, economy, healthcare and safe communities to increase race equity and eliminate racism. To advance this vision HCC must empower and mobilize organizational and resident leadership most impacted by race inequity and anti-Blackness to transform and make radical changes to address racism in our community and systems to build power and reallocate resources. To learn more, please visit our HCC website https://healthyrichmond.net

RCF Connects is the host agency for Healthy Contra Costa. RCF Connects’ intent is to enable the operation of a strong, integrated partnership with its initiatives. RCF Connects is a non-profit 501(c) that employs the key staff who provide ongoing support and coordination for the work of the Healthy Contra Costa Initiative.

HCC seeks a 0.5 FTE (20 hrs/week) Resident Organizer who will support the Project Manager for Resident Leadership in the implementation of resident power-building strategies within our policy advocacy campaigns. The Resident Organizer will assist and support the coordination of collective efforts within the HCC network, with resident leaders, and other initiatives as necessary. The Resident Organizer will also focus on resident power building through community engagement and organizing, project coordination tasks, communications, and other duties as assigned. HCC Initiative is dedicated to systems change through collective impact models involving multiple sectors, key players, and resident leaders. 

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate relationships across diverse communities to provide opportunities for residents to engage in policy advocacy related to areas including but not limited to economic, health, and education justice at different jurisdiction levels. Provide continual education, digestible information and support about these opportunities and policy-related information to residents, RCF staff, HCC staff, and HCC network partners.  
  • Facilitate regular meetings with resident leaders to build relationships, collaboration, and promote services and events for residents. This includes strengthening relationships with HCC network partners to identify and strategize resident leadership and policy advocacy campaign opportunities. 
  • Co-facilitate policy advocacy institute training series and other actions as needed to support the program. 
  • Attend and take notes during HCC-related meetings, community or public meetings in order to advance policy campaign-related efforts and report back to the HCC team. 
  • Provide ongoing input, information, and digital and physical materials (as requested) that support internal and external communication efforts about programming and opportunities.
  • Serve as an advocate and liaison related to advocacy efforts, resource referral system/direct service providers, in the community to ensure that the needs of residents are being addressed. 
  • Conduct outreach, recruitment, and screening for resident leaders and policy institute training participants. 
  • Conduct orientations and regular 1:1 check-ins for resident leaders to provide additional support. 
  • Collect invoices and distribute stipends for resident leaders. 
  • Assist in quality improvement and data-driven decision-making processes to assess the efficacy of policy institute programming and policy advocacy campaigns to drive programmatic refinements.  
  • Collect data and create summary reports for 1:1 check-ins, journals, and evaluation surveys related to experiences of residents participating in the policy institute. 
  • Assist in synthesis of community-designed equitable policy recommendations, research, and policy-related information related to including but not limited to health-related, economic-related, and education-related systems. 
  • Assist in administrative support, logistics, and planning such as budgets, calendar scheduling, curriculum development, event planning, social media, evaluations, agendas/minutes, Zoom-related activities, and other areas as needed. 
  • Maintain a flexible work schedule, as meetings and events will occur outside normal office hours, including evenings and weekends. Some travel outside the Richmond area will also be required.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in community organizing, policy advocacy, and/or public health prevention-focused initiatives. 
  • Some experience working in non-profit, government, or public sectors; experience in working across sectors and low-income communities is highly desirable. 
  • Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to create meeting agendas and inform goals, manage complex relationships and resolve conflict.  
  • Some experience leading and designing trainings and/or curriculum development. 
  • Some experience in outreach and recruitment support. 
  • Project coordination skills including the ability to oversee delivery of project deliverables in a timely and organized manner, advance policy and support aligned activities, and have excellent written and oral communication skills. 
  • Self-motivated, reliable, and strong interest in committing to the HCC Initiative’s work. 
  • Some knowledge of the economic, political, and social environments of Richmond and Contra Costa County. 
  • Ability to be flexible, multi-task, plan and prioritize workload, and work in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Strong professional caliber communication skills with proficiency in using multiple social media channels including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, interactive websites and blogs. Some understanding of underlying principles for the use of media advocacy utilizing social media to promote community organizing and policy advocacy goals. 
  • Ability to compose, edit, design, and produce communications and visuals through applications like Canva including flyers and event invitations. 
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Canva, and other media platforms. 
  • Able to work with diverse community members including the ability to effectively create alliances between groups. 
  • Bilingual in Spanish and the ability to perform interpretation and written translation is highly preferred. 
  • Have access to reliable transportation and are willing to use it for job-related tasks. 

Compensation/Benefits

  • This is an exempt position, .50 FTE.  
  • This position is a one-year grant-funded position. 
  • $28k initial salary will depend on experience. 
  • Professional/leadership development opportunities. 
  • Flexible work schedule. 
  • A workplace culture committed to supporting a good quality of life for employees; this includes offering remote work capability and options in the COVID-19 environment and beyond. 

How to Apply:

Please send a cover letter and resume via e-mail to:

Roxanne Carrillo Garza, MSW  – rcgarza@richmondcf.org

RCF Connects is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.

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Employees at RCF enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, competitive pay, retirement savings with employer match, paid time off, and work/life balance.

The Richmond Community Foundation (RCF Connects) is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.