The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC) is hiring a Community Engagement Coordinator to serve as a liaison between BSEC’s research theme teams and community partners including residents, city, state, and federal agencies, non-profits, and businesses. Learn more about the position and apply here

Job Description: BSEC Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC) is a liaison between BSEC’s theme teams and community partners including residents, city, state, and federal agencies, non-profits, and businesses. It is expected that the CEC will attend community associations meetings, community engagement theme team meetings, and BSEC all-hands meetings. You will do outreach and run focus groups with faith communities, youth groups, community residents, and various other stakeholders. Recruit and organize Citizen Data Scientists and connect them to relevant theme teams. The CEC is expected to create educational opportunities for BSEC researchers to better understand the context of Baltimore City and its neighborhoods. Organize monthly virtual colloquiums that feature talks about Baltimore City regarding inequality in climate change and environmental injustice. Coordinate quarterly educational field trips around the city to familiarize BSEC researchers with Baltimore’s neighborhoods and community leaders and organizations. You will be responsible for the development and dissemination of a curated reading list that focuses on Baltimore (i.e., Black Butterfly by Dr. Lawrence Brown, Not In My Backyard: How Bigotry Shaped A Great American City, by Antero Pietila, etc.). Connect BSEC researchers with people and organizations throughout the city that are working on complementary activities is a priority for this position.
Qualifications: Experience with focus groups (qualitative analysis) and community organizing are highly desired. This position requires a well-organized person, with strong communication skills, who has an interest in climate change, community engagement/empowerment, and/or data science. Must demonstrate ability to work independently and collaboratively with university faculty researchers, external organizations, and residents is expected. The CEC requires a flexible schedule, with some evening and weekend hours and is in-person with opportunities for remote work. Personal transportation needed.
Compensation: We are offering a wage of $23 an hour for 30 hours a week with benefits. Submission: Please send a cover letter and resume to Dr. James Hunter at james.hunter@morgan.edu. In your cover letter please address your strengths for this position.