JEWISH COMMUNITIES LIAISON
Company: City of New York
Location: New York
Posted on: October 20, 2024
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Job Description:
Company Description
Job Description
The Commission on Human Rights (the Commission) is the agency
charged with enforcing the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL)
- one of the most expansive civil rights laws in the nation.
Through its Law Enforcement Bureau (LEB), the Commission accepts
claims filed by the public, and has the power to initiate its own
investigations to affirmatively root out discrimination,
harassment, retaliation and other violations of the NYCHRL.
The Commission's Community Relations Bureau (CRB) is empowered to
take action against prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination
and bias-related violence or harassment through education,
trainings, outreach efforts, and other mechanisms aimed at creating
partnerships and relationships with stakeholders in the community.
Both bureaus collaborate closely to work towards the shared goal of
fostering mutual understanding and respect among all New Yorkers
and encouraging equality of treatment throughout the City.
Job Description:
- Assist with community-based outreach about the NYCHRL and issues
related to the law to community groups, tenant groups, grass-roots
organizations, educational institutions, non-profit organizations,
private entities, faith-based institutions and governmental
agencies. Especially, identify underserved populations and engage
in developing creative and effective outreach strategies. As well
as extensive outreach to New Yorkers. As well as building
relationships and conducting extensive outreach to NYC's diverse
Jewish communities.
- Provide community and culturally appropriate response to bias
incidents.
- Explore restorative responses to bias incidents in partnership
with impacted communities.
- Conduct competency trainings and workshops.
- Provide technical assistance and trainings for community groups
and community-based organizations to further the Commission's
work.
- Represent the Commission at public meetings, local neighborhood
community projects, celebrations, and community events.
- Prepares reports, conducts analyses, and creates strategic
outreach plans. Given the specific focus on a community, it is
required to have analytical and strategic planning skills to
conduct both research and outreach.
- Enter, update, and retrieve information on an electronic
information storage system to facilitate agency operations.
- Work requires traveling to all five Boroughs to conduct
outreach.
- Performs all other duties as needed within the civil service
title to advance the work of the CRB and engage in intra-agency
collaboration.
Qualifications
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college plus two years
of satisfactory full- time experience in intergroup relations * ;
community relations; civil rights law enforcement; block or tenant
organizing; investigations related to law enforcement; labor or
industrial relations; education; social work; or law; or
2. A four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent
and four years of satisfactory, full-time experienced as described
under 1 above; or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However,
all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its
educational equivalent, and must possess at least one year of
experience described under 1 above.
* Intergroup relations is defined as experience in which the
employee's major responsibility is to facilitate communication and
cooperation, and mediate tensions between different groups.
Additional Information
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer
committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and
providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and
harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected
characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex,
race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability,
sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or
pregnancy.
Keywords: City of New York, Levittown , JEWISH COMMUNITIES LIAISON, Other , New York, New York
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