Development and Community Engagement Associate

Development and Community Engagement Associate - Part Time

The Gender Equality Law Center is a not-for-profit law firm based in Brooklyn, New York. We provide direct services to individuals seeking to remedy gender-based discrimination and stereotyping as it adversely limits their ability to obtain and maintain economic equality and to fairly access a wide variety of social and civil benefits. GELC believes that every person deserves to be able to work, go to school, find shelter and obtain health care without being discriminated against on the basis of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression.

While GELC’s cases are on behalf of individuals (or groups of individuals). the organization litigation goals include obtaining systemic change through each and every lawsuit or administrative complaint we file. GELC’s three focus areas are: (1) pregnancy and caregiver discrimination; (2) sexual harassment and violence prevention; and (3) LGBTQ + rights. Because gender-based discrimination rarely happens in a silo, almost all of GELC’s cases involve the intersection of gender with other forms of bias, including but not limited to race, national origin, immigration status and disability. GELC strongly believes in access to justice. For this reason, the majority of our clients low-income individuals who would not otherwise be able to afford to obtain counsel.

GELC seeks a Development and Community Engagement Associate to cover two distinct areas of non-legal work needed by the Organization: (1) Developing funding streams, e.g. grants and private donations to help support GELC; and (2) Community engagement to help profile GELC and also add to enhancing our income stream to support our services.

Job Duties Related to Development Work:

• Research potential grants
• Prepare grants with assistance of Executive Director
• Draft individual donor letters
• Identify new potential income streams to help support the Organization
• Build relationships with new partners

Job Duties Related to Community Outreach Work:

• Update and maintain GELC's website (WIX Platform - must be familiar with WIX)
• Draft and send out monthly emails
• Prepare other communications

pro-rated health insurance stipend, pro-rated vacation, holidays

Bilingual in English-Spanish preferred but not mandatory