Volunteer Coordinator

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruit, develop, and retain volunteers. Process sign-up sheets, welcome new volunteers, and run new volunteer orientations.
• Build trusting relationships with volunteer leaders and provide support, guidance, knowledge, encouragement, and organizational support for our 13 neighborhood-based groups that have varying levels of activity and need.
• Organize leadership development and skill-building opportunities for volunteers.
• Manage volunteer information including CRM database (Little Green Light) and communications platform subscriptions.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Help to organize occasional community gatherings, meetings, memorials for victims of traffic collisions, or other events.
• Support our Communications Director in engaging volunteers and supporters on social media, in our monthly newsletter, on our website, and in person.
• Opportunities to work on a broad set of tasks and employ a broad range of skills to support our small organization.

Who are we looking for?

An ideal candidate would be a people person who thrives meeting, engaging, and supporting other people around shared interests and values.

Requirements include:

• Experience with volunteer management or community organizing, whether paid or unpaid.
• Ability to work collaboratively with staff and volunteers with a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, levels of experience, and needs.
• A commitment to equity, inclusion, and social justice.
• Ability to distill problems, opportunities, relationships, and other factors into clear plans and tasks for our volunteers.
• Ability to keep organized records and work independently and problem solve towards strategic goals.
• Ability to keep organized records.

Compensation and Benefits:

• 24 hours/week with flexible hours
• Paid Time Off: generous paid time off
• Holidays: Seattle Streets Alliance generally follows holidays as observed by the State of Washington (12 days currently). Observed holidays do not count as part of an employee’s Paid Time Off days taken.
• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.

Duration: This is currently funded as a three year position.