Faith Relations Coordinator - 2024-25
Faith Relations Coordinator
For one year, get paid to build sustainable solutions in a community, gain valuable hands-on experience and prepare for your future. This full-time AmeriCorps service position offers a great opportunity to make an impact in the lives of others while building your own knowledge and skillset.
AmeriCorps National members serve the community in direct service and capacity building activities.
What will you do?
The Faith Relations Coordinator plays a critical role in strengthening faith-based relationships through planning, coordinating, and implementing projects and programs and recruiting volunteers in partnership with area faith partners. The strategic relationships with faith-based congregations, schools, and other faith-based organizations help Habitat L.A. identify areas where housing and community development solutions can intersect with identified needs. The Faith Relations Coordinator will especially help develop partnerships in newer parts of the Habitat LA service area and conduct outreach for programs using an equity lens.
- Help schedule and attend regular meetings and speaking engagements with clergy, mission’s leaders, and congregations. They will educate audiences about the mission and vision of Habitat LA, share information about our various programs, and encourage volunteer engagement.
- Recruit, train, schedule, and recognize faith-based volunteers.
- Build faith-based relationships in the community to grow the overall faith volunteer base and advance faith-based individual and group partnerships without soliciting funding.
- Market within the faith community to recruit new volunteers and develop events and opportunities for faith volunteers to engage with the mission of Habitat LA.
- Respond to phone calls, emails, and correspondence from staff and faith-based partners and maintain records of faith-based partnerships, correspondence, and history in the Raiser’s Edge.
This position will focus on volunteer services aspects of Habitat affiliate operations.
Where will you serve?
- Organization name: Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles
- Nearest metropolitan area: Long Beach, CA
- Full-time staff: 120
- Expected number of AmeriCorps members: 14
- Number of homes to be built: 52
- Activities and attractions: Learn, serve, and explore in iconic County of Los Angeles! Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angles (Habitat LA) has hosted AmeriCorps members since 1999. In your off-hours, hike the many mountain ranges in our backyard; explore Downtown Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign, Queen Mary, and the many beaches of Southern California. Check out the many amusement parks near us, like Six Flags, Knotts Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Disneyland, and more! Join our Habitat family and form lasting relationships while creating affordable housing solutions with hard-working families in Greater Los Angeles.
- Unique projects: The member will help support our new annual Unity Build event where we engage faith communities from different backgrounds to come together and build homes.
Benefits of AmeriCorps service
- Living allowance of $18,700 for approximately 10 ½ months of service.
- Segal Education Award of $7,395, upon successful completion of service (lifetime maximum of two full education awards).
- Forbearance for most federally-guaranteed student loans.
- Health care benefits and enrollment in Employee Assistance Plan.
- Personal and medical leave — approximately 10 days total.
- Personal and professional development opportunities.
- Child care benefits, if you qualify.
- Worker’s compensation insurance.
Supplemental Benefits
- Housing stipend paid directly to your landlord ($950 per month)
Minimum Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, national or lawful permanent resident at least 18 or older and have a high school diploma or GED.
What are we looking for?
Our ideal candidates:
- Are passionate about serving the community through direct service.
- Demonstrate respect for diversity of opinion, experience, and background.
- Desire to gain hands-on experience in the affordable housing and nonprofit sector.
- Have experience working on a team.
- Possess stellar interpersonal communication skills.
- Are motivated and committed to serve full time and in person.
About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.