Who’s Hiring? Browse Community Outreach and Engagement Jobs

Community engagement professionals are responsible for strengthening the bonds between organizations and the communities they serve. Their work is essential to cultivating lasting relationships, ensuring community needs are met, and increasing the overall impact of their organizations’ mission.

Community transformation—creating environments where individuals can thrive and the community’s collective good is enhanced—begins with effective community action.

We’ve selected 15 community outreach opportunities from organizations at the forefront of solving critical social challenges. Whether you’re interested in protecting the environment, improving literacy, advocating for economic justice, or public health, these organizations offer a wide range of opportunities to make an impact.

1. Virginia Civic Engagement Chart, Remote Work

VCET is a statewide organization that serves a broad network of partners throughout the Commonwealth. They envision a multiracial democracy in Virginia where the full diversity of the Commonwealth actively participates in, represents, and transforms democracy; where white supremacy is actively dismantled, and people of color, working families, and impacted communities thrive in an equitable economy and lead healthy lives. They are hiring a communications manager to work remotely.

2. Great Peninsula Conservancy, Bremerton, WA

Great Peninsula Conservancy is an accredited, nonprofit land trust that works to preserve the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the Great Peninsula in western Puget Sound, Washington. Since 1980, GPC has protected over 11,700 acres of forests, farms, wetlands, streams, shorelines, and community green spaces through acquisitions, conservation easements, and partnerships. They employ a Community Engagement Coordinator to work in a hybrid capacity in or near Bremerton, Washington.

3. Moms Clean Air Force | Environmental Defense Fund, remote work

Moms Clean Air Force (Moms) is a community of more than 1.5 million moms—and dads—united in an effort to combat air pollution, including the urgent crisis of climate change. The organization provides its members with trusted information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools, and field organizing. They are hiring a field consultant in Florida to work remotely.

4. Reading Partners, San Francisco, California

Reading Partners is changing the educational landscape as a leader in addressing the nation’s literacy crisis. Utilizing community volunteers in underserved schools, they effectively leverage a diverse and expansive volunteer base to provide one-on-one tutoring to students twice a week. Their program is proven to help children master the reading fundamentals necessary to unlock their potential as successful, happy, and confident readers in school and life. They are hiring a Community Engagement Associate to work in a hybrid capacity in San Francisco, CA or nearby.

5. Young Women’s Project, Washington, DC

Young Women’s Project is a multicultural organization that builds and supports teen leaders based in DC so they can improve their lives and transform their communities. YWP programs guide young women and men through personal transformation to become leaders in their peer groups, schools, families, and communities. They employ a Program Coordinator: Youth Mental Health Campaign to work in a hybrid capacity in or near Washington, DC.

6. Women’s Non-Standard Employment (NEW), New York, NY

Since 1978, NEW has pioneered a model that works for women and for New York City. NEW places and supports low-income women in professional careers through advanced training programs, an expanded employer base, and a growing number of opportunities available to women through those employers. They are hiring an Enrollment Manager to work on-site in New York, NY.

7. Northwest Maritime, Port Townsend, WA

Northwest Maritime’s mission is to engage and educate people of all generations in traditional and contemporary maritime life, in the spirit of adventure and discovery. They are hiring a Volunteer Coordinator to work in a hybrid capacity in or near Port Townsend, Washington.

8. Pillar Care Continuum, East Hanover, NJ

Pillar Care Continuum (formerly Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey) offers a wide range of services to infants, children and adults with over 100 different disabilities/diagnoses. The company is hiring an Event Coordinator for their East Hanover, NJ location.

9. Safety Net Project – Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

The Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project (formerly Homelessness Outreach & Prevention Project) combines direct legal services, litigation, research, and policy to achieve economic justice for low- and no-income New Yorkers. They employ a Housing Director to work in a hybrid capacity in or near New York City.

10. Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, Santa Ana, California

Habitat for Humanity of Orange County changes lives by bringing together people and God’s resources to help families in need build and own quality, affordable homes in safe and supportive communities. They are hiring a Community & Homeownership Services Manager to work on-site in Santa Ana, California.

11. Centre Congregational Church, Lynnfield, MA

Tower Day School, operated by Centre Congregational Church in Lynnfield MA, is a Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered preschool. Centre Church is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. They are hiring a Family Programs and Outreach Coordinator to work hybrid in Lynnfield, MA or nearby.

12. Manna on Main Street, Lansdale, PA

Manna on Main Street, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, provides critical food services to the North Penn region of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, ensuring that households and individuals have a welcome and safe place to access emergency food, social services, and educational opportunities. They are hiring an Education and Inclusion Manager to work on-site in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

13. After School Stuff, Chicago, IL

After School Matters is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that annually offers after-school and summer programs to nearly 19,000 Chicago high school students to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills that will prepare them for success in college and beyond. They are hiring a Director of Program Support to work hybrid in Chicago, IL or nearby.

14th Generation Hope, New Orleans, Louisiana

Generation Hope is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure that all student parents have the opportunity to succeed and experience economic mobility. The organization engages educational and policy partners to drive systemic change and provides direct support to parents of college-bound teens, as well as their children, through holistic, two-generational programs. They employ a New Orleans Program Coordinator to work in a hybrid capacity in or near New Orleans, Louisiana.

15. AMAAD Institute, Los Angeles, California

Arming Minorities Against Addiction & Disease (AMAAD) Institute facilitates personalized, one-on-one access to programs and services that promote safe and supportive healthy environments where people can live, learn, and thrive to their full potential. They are hiring a Housing Navigation Program Manager to work on-site in Los Angeles, California.

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