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Community Health Education Fellowship

The Center

Community Health Education Fellowship

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    POSITION TITLE: Community Health Education Fellowship 

    REPORTS TO: Economic Initiatives Manager  

    CLASSIFICATION: Part-Time | Non-Exempt | Temporary

    SALARY & BENEFITS: $20 per hour plus transportation costs.

    SCHEDULE: This is a temporary position from August 2022 through June 2023. The Fellow will work approximately 5-10 hours per week in-person at The Center and at the partner school in Hillcrest, Queens. 

    SUMMARY: The Community Health Education Fellowship supports those seeking to break into the community health education field, but lack the educational background or experience that would qualify them for entry-level, full-time employment. The Fellow will conduct a weekly on-site class with a partner high school to deliver LGBTQ+ affirming sexual health education. At the end of the fellowship, graduates work with Center Works career counselors to attain employment at a community healthcare facility. The Center Works team will maintain relationships with community healthcare providers who understand the core competencies of the Fellowship, thereby assisting in post-fellowship job attainment.

    ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Attend on-site training at The Center in preparation for the start of the NYC Department of Education academic year.
    • Lead the weekly LGBTQ+ affirming sexual health class for high school students on-side in Hillcrest, Queens.
    • Collaborate with teachers and staff in course instruction and logistics.
    • Attend weekly supervision with the Economic Initiatives Manager.
    • Assist with Center community events.
    • Other duties as assigned.

    POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

    • Completed a Center Works intake.
    • Experience teaching sexual health education to youth and young people is a plus.
    • Successfully complete a criminal background check required by the NYC Department of Education.
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work with a wide range of workstyles and cultural backgrounds.
    • Demonstrated ability to work with individuals of diverse races, identities, ethnicities, ages, gender identity and sexual orientations in a social justice driven environment.
    • Understanding of, and commitment to, undoing structural and institutional racism and bias and the spectrum of gender identity and bias. Consideration of the impacts and outcomes in decision-making processes and on underserved and historically oppressed communities.
    • A strong commitment to social justice and the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

    COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT:

    The Center is subject to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Commissioner's Order requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Staff in Residential and Congregate Settings from New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The Center is required to comply with this order because we have a number of contracts with New York City.

    All current and new staff must either provide a one-time verification that they are fully vaccinated with either a single-dose of an FDA- or WHO-approved one-dose COVID-19 vaccine or the second dose of an FDA- or WHO-approved two-dose vaccine. 

    THE CENTER'S COMMITMENT TO EQUITY & INCLUSIVITY:

    The Center was born of community activism in response to the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a place for LGBTQ people to access information, care, and support that they were not receiving elsewhere. We opened in 1983 to help people who had doors constantly closed in their faces, ostracized by family, friends, and shunned by the general society. Since that time, we have continually provided a wide array of services and programs to serve our community, with an intentional focus on providing support to those who are most vulnerable. We have always taken great care to be a space that responds to community need; engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion work is another outgrowth of those ongoing efforts. We recognize that in order to help LGBTQ individuals and our diverse community achieve parity in health, justice, opportunity and success outcomes, our organization must hold a strong foundation and competency in, as well as invest organizational focus on, equity and inclusion frameworks, practices and policies. This is also true in our hiring and retention of staff.

    The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.