M-POWER Coordinator and Organizer
Job Description
Job: M-Power Coordinator and Organizer
Hours: 10-14 hours/week
Pay Rate: $15-$20/hr dependent of level of experience
Location: 98 Magazine St., Roxbury, MA 02119
To apply please send a resume with cover letter to: Ruthie Poole, ruthiepoole44@yahoo.com
M-Power: Who We Are
M-Power (Massachusetts People Organized for Wellness, Empowerment and Rights) is a member run organization of people with mental health conditions. We advocate for political and social change within the mental health system, the community, city, and statewide. Organizing as a common voice, we claim and secure our human rights. We promote free access to information about those rights. We stand against stigma, bigotry, and discrimination that impede our ability to live as dignified people. We enlighten mental health professionals and the community with the truth about our lives, empowering ourselves in the process. We believe all people are entitled to lives free of prejudice and oppression.
M-Power was founded in 1988. Due to years of successful growth and development, many of M-Power’s projects have become a separate entity The Transformation Center. With this change in configuration M-Power is now able to reconnect with it’s original grassroots mission to work for political and social change.
Responsibilities
The Coordinator is responsible for overseeing all M-Power activities. These include: facilitating and supporting the statewide peer voice on legislative, policy, and system issues; community outreach and education including networking with organizations, the mental health community, and advocate groups; organize statewide and regional events and activities; and supporting and building our membership base.
Lived experience of a mental health diagnosis, trauma, addiction and/or extreme states is preferred.
Job Activities:
- Oversee fundraising activities
- Coordinate and organize statewide activities, campaigns and events
- Be visible at events and activities that concern M-Power
- Administrative support for organizational needs including Board of Directors meetings.
- Work collaboratively with the M-Power Board of Directors on vision and objectives for the organization.
- Manage the budget
- Build and support communications including a simple web page and newsletter
- Work with and supervise volunteers to accomplish tasks and organizational objectives including those listed above.
Preferred Skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with a volunteer membership base and the Board of Directors
- An understanding of the history of our community including current issues.
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including public speaking
- Strong computer skills
- Experience running or providing leadership to a grassroots community organization, including fundraising, grant writing, and database management.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent education or experience