Join our passionate, driven team working to make South Dakota a diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist state.

We're hiring Multilingual Community Outreach Coordinators to join our outreach team and support our vaccine work! Applicants proficient in Amharic, Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya, and Arabic will be prioritized.

MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATORS

South Dakota Voices for Peace (SDVFP) seeks Multilingual Community Outreach Coordinators to join our growing team. The Community Outreach Coordinator must have a dynamic personality, be self-motivated, able to travel through the state of South Dakota, and able to interact with communities from different ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic backgrounds. This position will be tasked with reaching out to new U.S. Citizens, immigrant, refugee, and undocumented communities throughout the eastern half of the state for COVID-19 and flu vaccine outreach. This position will work on a team which includes other coordinators, Outreach Team Leads, Executive Director, Deputy Director, Programs Coordinator, and Digital Content Specialist. This position will be based in Sioux Falls, SD.

​​PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• ​Travel to rural areas with high concentrations of multilingual communities.
• ​Have one-on-one multilingual conversations with community members assessing vaccine hesitancy and vaccine accessibility.
• Identify and build relationships with multilingual community leaders and credible messengers
• Identify and table at community events.
• Organize community events for vaccine education and vaccine pop-up sites.
• Collect stories of impact of COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy and vaccine accessibility.
• Troubleshoot areas of low community engagement.
• Communicate and report findings and issues to supervisor in a prompt manner.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and confidential files.
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace using a personal approach that values all individuals and respects differences in race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and socio-economic circumstance.
• Commit to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflicts.
• Arrange local travel accommodations and have a reliable car for weekly travel.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated commitment to the mission and goals of the SD Voices for Peace and SD Voices for Justice.
• Ability to use Windows Office 365, case management system Docketwise and Google Suite: Microsoft Office, Adobe, OneDrive/Google Shared Drives and Gmail using tablets and smartphones.
• Knowledge and familiarity with culture and community of immigrant/refugee population(s) and general knowledge of workplace issues and immigration issues community’s encounter.
• Demonstrated ability to work with vulnerable community members.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multilingual community members and interpreters.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills of intercultural competency.
• Ability to work under pressure, handle multiple deadlines effectively, and troubleshoot creatively.
• Fluency in Amharic, Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya, Arabic, Spanish, or Karen, in addition to English (written and spoken) are preferred.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as within a team and take direction.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.

This is a grant-funded, part-time or full-time position paid on an hourly basis. Health benefits not available; flexible schedule an option.

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SDVFP imagines a South Dakota that is diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist. Our mission is to build power and enable healing in immigrant, refugee, and Muslim communities by amplifying their voices and working in solidarity with all who dismantle bigotry and racism. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. SD Voices for Peace encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status.