Volunteer Engagement Program Assistant  bei 826 Boston

About the Opportunity 

826 Boston seeks a creative team member with strong organizational skills
to serve as the Volunteer Engagement Program Assistant. We are seeking a
candidate with a strong command of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
principles and approaches, who can build on the current strengths of the
Volunteer Management Team, including robust training and support that
center DEI, collaborative partnerships with universities, and a culture of
learning and appreciation. 

The Volunteer Engagement Program Assistant will also support the Volunteer
Management Team in cultivating and stewarding the individual volunteers
that foster learning spaces that are student-centered, strengths-based, and
promote inclusivity for the identities, experiences, and voices of LGBTQ+,
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and neurodiverse students. 

Mission

826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization
where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify
their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. 

Responsibilities 

Volunteer and Community Engagement 

• Support the Volunteer Management Team in cultivating and stewarding
  a volunteer corps of 500+ individuals on an annual basis 
• Assist in building, cultivating, and supporting strong relationships to
  maintain pipelines with corporate groups and community organizations
  that fuel community volunteerism 
• Collaborate with Volunteer Management Team members to assist in
  the planning and support of community-based recruitment events 
• Support volunteer onboarding for all individuals, including leading one
  to two volunteer training sessions a month and coordinating pre- and
  post-training communication 
• Support the recruitment of individuals to attend training sessions via
  online postings 
• Coordinate monthly  volunteer appreciation posts and assist volunteer retention efforts
• Support outreach efforts including but not limited to corporate partner
  visits, community fairs, and local tabling events

Systems Coordination and Data Collection 

• Assist in the management of volunteer communications systems,
  including email, volunteer opportunity calendar, and sign up tools 
• Assist in the maintenance of volunteer records, tracking
  participation, inputting volunteer shift data, and producing reports
  in our Volunteer Database, SalesForce 
• Collaborate with Senior Manager of Volunteer & Community
  Engagement, to track progress toward annual programming goals
  and report to the team on a biannual basis 
• Support in conducting bi-monthly check-ins with program teams to
  identify and address volunteer needs within 826 Boston
  programming 

Additional responsibilities 

• Support organization-wide summer programming 
• Provide monthly support to programming as a tutor or staff
  coverage 

Qualifications 

The ideal candidate is a team player with a steadfast commitment to
improving the quality of K-12 education, including adopting
antiracist/anti-oppressive approaches, with a desire to work in a
collaborative and inclusive culture and a passion for youth empowerment
through writing and publishing. 

826 Boston recognizes that impostor syndrome and the confidence gap
might prevent some applicants from applying. Few candidates will have all of
the relevant experience listed below, but 826 Boston is committed to
assessing candidates with transferable skills and a willingness to be trained
for this role. 

Skills and experiences

• 2+ years of experience working in a K-12 school, education, or youth
  development nonprofit 
• Experience with volunteer management and/or with direct
  volunteering preferred but not required 
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering community, building a strong
  sense of team, and embracing values of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ability to give and receive feedback with humility, regulation, and tact
• Knowledge of and fluency with social and racial justice,
  intersectionality, BIPoC and LGBTQIA+ history, and historic/current
  systems of oppression
• Ability to incorporate anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices into
  analysis, planning, and programming 
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Apps preferred but
  not required 
• Proficiency in Spanish, Cape Verdean or Haitian Creole, or Somali
  preferred but not required 
• Experience with SalesForce or comparable database preferred but not
  required 

Salary and Benefits

826 Boston offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position, with the potential for an annual performance-based bonus. The salary for this position is $40,000 annually.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits and are committed to equity, trust, and transparency in compensation. Basing compensation on someone’s ability to negotiate or their prior salary can lead to inequities and bias in how people are paid, particularly for groups experiencing historical oppression. Therefore, we do not ask for prior pay history from our candidates, and our offer-making process is negotiation-free for salaries and benefits. We determine the best possible salary offer based on relevant experience and the extent to which candidates demonstrate the competencies for the role during the entire hiring process. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint, depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. 


Benefits include flexible work from home options, generous paid time off (including 15 PTO days, accrued sick leave, 13 paid holidays, 6 Summer Fridays off, and an organization wide two-week winter break); health, dental, and vision insurance (826 Boston covers 80% of premiums), parental leave, paid sabbatical, and more.

This is an exempt, full-time, position that reports to the Senior Manager of Volunteer and Community Engagement. 

826 Boston Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement 

At 826 Boston, we honor and actively work toward diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) across our organization. We are committed to centering the
voices of the students who we serve, to creating inclusive spaces, and to
incorporating feedback from our community into our decision-making
processes. Our DEI lens is always evolving through the courageous
conversations in which we participate and the relationships that we build
through our work and service. We strengthen our cultural competency
through experience, training, and feedback, which informs the development
of all new organizational practices and goals and the evaluation of all
existing procedures. 

826 Boston is dedicated to providing a platform for student advocacy
through writing and publishing opportunities. In our work and mission, we
are committed to dismantling white supremacy culture by recognizing that
we are complicit in systems of racism and oppression. We will work to hold
ourselves accountable in addressing these harmful structures and behaviors. 

About Us 

826 Boston is part of a national network of youth writing centers,
co-founded by the award-winning author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive
Calegari, that were named in GOOD Magazine’s “30 Places We Want to
Work.” Since opening in 2007, 826 Boston has delivered its free youth
writing and tutoring programs to more than 29,000 students and has been
recognized by The Boston Globe as one of the best places in the city to
volunteer. 826 Boston’s youth writers have published their work in The New
York Times, The Boston Globe, and in numerous award-winning 826 Boston
books, including A Place for Me in the World, which was hailed as a “triumph
of middle school education” by The Boston Globe.
In 2013, the 826 National
network garnered the prestigious American Literacy Prize awarded by the
Library of Congress. 

Accommodations 

826 Boston provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with
disabilities at every stage of the application process. Disclosing a disability or
requesting a need for accommodations is a separate process from
admissions and will have absolutely no bearing on a candidate’s application
status. 826 Boston will make every effort to meet your request, but specific
requests are not guaranteed. If you need to request an accommodation,
please contact Catherine Gomez at [email protected]. 

How to Apply 

Please include why you are interested in 826 Boston and how your
experience has prepared you for this position in your cover letter. The
priority application deadline for this position is October 10th. After that date,
applications will be considered on a rolling basis and may be paused if we receive a robust applicant pool. It is in your best interest to
apply as soon as possible. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,
disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic
protected by law.