Status: 32-40 Hours/week (.8-1 FTE)

Wages: $45,760 ($22/hr.) – based on total FTE – hourly non-exempt

Benefits: Full Health and Dental coverage for staff and families

Reports to: Executive Director, and works in cooperation with CDR Program Managers

SUMMARY

The Network Facilitator and Partnership Coordinator creates and cultivates high quality relationships and takes the lead on catalyzing a new network, while also contributing more broadly to CDR’s mission, programs, and services—including engaging in all aspects of the agency’s external-facing operations and activities.

This position has two distinct but intertwined elements: 1) Half of the Coordinator’s time will be spent on the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention (CVIP) Network; and 2) Half of the Coordinator’s time will be spent on general community outreach, partnership development, and public awareness of CDR’s work and services.  The two areas described below will overlap but also have separate responsibilities.

Networks, by their very nature, are living systems that are continuously shifting and evolving.  Because of these inherent network dynamics, this position will fill many types of organizational and network needs with a combination of soft skills involved with communication, facilitation, listening, and working across differences, as well as hard skills related to project management, organization, and outreach.

Relationship Building: Curious, diplomatic, and empathetic;
able to form and maintain trusting relationships with a wide range of
stakeholders.

Fostering Collaboration: Experience initiating and/or
participating in collaborative efforts such as networks, coalitions, or other
multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Group Facilitation: Experience designing and facilitating
meetings and gatherings virtually and in-person.

Communications: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal
communication skills grounded in deep listening and a commitment to co-creation
and collective action.

Project Management/Support: Demonstrated ability to support
and empower teams in pursuing their goals; well-organized and able to manage
many moving parts.

Cultural Agility and Demonstrated Commitment to
Diversity-Equity-Inclusion: Ability to work across cultural differences, share
power, and ensure equitable participation in the network.

Familiarity with dispute resolution, mediation, and
restorative justice.

Existing local relationships are helpful, but not required.

Experience working with Microsoft Office preferred, some experience working with project management tools is a plus.

Convening the Network

• Design and facilitate Network virtual and in-person convenings in partnership with the network/stakeholder team (Core Team)
• Organize convening logistics, including meeting locations, catering, materials, reminders, etc.
• Together with the Core Team, organize and host Network calls in between convenings

Catalyzing the Network

• Orient new Network members and support their onboarding
• Facilitate connections among Network participants, including: fostering new relationships; re-engaging inactive members; troubleshooting potential Network issues in partnership with the ; and liaising with Network members, Project Teams and Core Team
• Support Network participants to more deeply connect their organization with the work of Network
• Represent the Network at external events (e.g., conferences) and on social media
• Update the Network website

Coordinating the Network

• Join Core Team meetings and calls, identifying points of intersection and bottlenecks with Network Project Teams
• Track project progress
• Capture key takeaways and next steps from convenings
• Provide monthly updates to the Network
• Maintain Network records (membership, financial, Core Team summary minutes, Project Team rosters and activities)
• Maintain the Network’s technological infrastructure (Zoom, Slack, Google Suite) and keep them up to date

Communicating with and for the Network

• Function as primary point of contact for the Network internally and externally, including for the Network email address
• Connect with each individual Network participant to understand their work, their organization, and how the Network can support the participant and their organization in service of shared goals
• Work to keep Network conversations vibrant and alive
• Reach out to drifting participants and find creative ways to re-engage them in the Network

Resourcing the Network

• Support Network fundraising efforts with the Core Team
• Work with Network members to identify and secure in-kind contributions, including meeting locations, transportation, catering, materials, etc.

CDR will flesh out the details of community outreach, partnership development, and public awareness duties with the incoming Network Facilitator and Partnership Coordinator, working to create synergy between both halves of this new position.

The work environment at CDR is designed to be flexible, effective, and responsive to the needs of staff and clients. Staff at CDR work both in-person and remotely, with a work schedule tailored to the needs of each individual staff member, the entire CDR staff and volunteer team, and our clients’ needs. Decision-making at the agency involves a combination of top-down and horizontal management structures, reaching consensus whenever possible, but always engaging in collaboration and shared meaning-making for decisions as they arise.

CDR’s mission is to provide resolution services that: address disputes, crimes and community conflicts through mediation and group facilitation, using the best communication skills and dialogue models available; and to provide education services that build communication and resolution resources in the community though trainings, workshops, and presentations.

CDR values and centers diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its work, both internally and externally.  The following are CDR’s working definitions of DEI:

• Diversity refers to the array of differences in identity, including physical, philosophical, cognitive, cultural and linguistic, within any given community. Placing a value on diversity presupposes the notion that a community is fundamentally healthier, and more just, when it both contains and is informed by this multiplicity of perspectives.
• Equity is the existence of conditions where all members of a community can reach their full potential; it requires ongoing, honest self-assessment of privilege, inter-cultural fluency, and implicit bias to inform the lens through which we examine our personal positions, interpersonal interactions, and institutional structures.
• Inclusion speaks to the methods that an organization or community uses to ensure that diverse members have an opportunity to participate in that community, contribute to its expressions, and exert power within its leadership and decision-making structures. The extent to which a community operates from an ethos of inclusion reflects their support of equity and their understanding of the importance of diversity.

CDR is in the early stages of its DEI journey.  All CDR employees are expected to participate in, and contribute to, the regular and ongoing DEI initiatives and efforts.

Our Core Values also include:

• Compassion
• Mutual respect and dignity
• Integrity
• Trauma-informed communication and care
• Humility
• Empowerment
• Openness
• Kindness
• Trust