The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is a 40-year old community organization that unites individuals and institutions to fight for better neighborhoods and for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice. The organization is membership-based, and uses direct action community organizing to address affordable housing, public education, immigrant rights, youth, voting rights, economic development and jobs issues, and to fight for broader policy change in these and other areas.

The NWBCCC is committed to ensuring safe, healthy, and affordable housing for Bronx residents, and fights displacement and gentrification. The Healthy Buildings Program is a new initiative of the NWBCCC and its partners the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, Emerald Cities Collaborative, Montefiore Medical Center, The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Bloc Power. The program works to address the root causes of poor health, with a focus on asthma, through a holistic approach. We identify apartment buildings that are the source of high numbers of Emergency Room asthma visits, organize tenants in these building to fight for repairs and green energy retrofits, and train local residents as Community Health Workers to educate tenants on asthma prevention. The program is designed to prevent asthma, create local jobs and wealth, reduce energy costs and combat climate change. Our members lead this work, and developing leadership is a key responsibility of organizers. This organizer’s main responsibilities will be to:

Conduct strategic tenant organizing in multi-family buildings;
Build a membership base through recruitment of community and faith-based institutions;
Conduct leadership development to build the capacity of community leaders and members;
Run local housing campaigns that target problem landlords, lenders and policies that contribute to deteriorating housing conditions;
Support the continued development of the NWBCCC Health and Housing Committees;
Coordinate participation of community leaders in city, state and federal housing campaigns;
Recruit tenants to join other NWBCCC issue campaigns, and the organization’s broader work;
Collaborate and coordinate with Healthy Homes partner organizations;
Assist with fund development; and attend weekly staff meetings and training opportunities.

Requirements:

Minimum two years experience in organizing;
Demonstrated commitment and passion for social justice and understanding of community organizing approach to social change;
Fluency in Spanish and English;
Strong writing, communication and negotiation skills;
Strong interest in and ability to work with diverse groups;
Ability to work nights and weekends as necessary;
Fluency in Spanish and background in social determinants of health preferred.

How to apply

Send resume and cover letter to:Housing@northwestbronx.org, referencing “Healthy Buildings.”