Harm Reduction Community Liaison

Compensation Range: $65000 - $75000 yearly commensurate with experience

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement tuition costs and text books.

Overview:

The Harm Reduction Community Liaison builds relationships with community stakeholders on behalf of harm reduction programing. This staff represents harm reduction programing and services delivered through Manhattans Midtown area and the Lower East Side. This staff works closely with program managers community navigators overdose prevention educators and any staff providing community level interventions education and program promotion activities in the catchment areas above. This position actively participates and seeks engagement with businesses community advisory boards elected officials and community businesses as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in monthly quarterly or impromptu community meetings to bring the harm reduction perspective into community settings.
• Facilitates the development of linkage agreements with service organizations that can both serve or refer participants for services and care.
• Promotes Housing Works community services and interventions to new stakeholders in the community.
• Participates in advocacy events and interventions as directed by the Advocacy Department.
• Attends conferences seminars and gatherings to collect and distribute information to build relationships that will impact program participants goods and services.
• Carry out advocacy and lobbying work with elected officials and staff in Albany and in legislators home districts;
• Represent Housing Works with regional state and local AIDS AIDS housing harm reduction people of color LGBT antipoverty public health and other activist organizations and coalitions.
• Has worked with organizing digital tools like Action Network.
• Provides monthly narrative of activities and events attended for the prior month.

Other functions that may be required with this position include:

• Occasional heavy lifting and physical moving of items for events and activities related to advocacy efforts.
• Occasional evening and night-time meetings as well as weekend and overtime hours are required.
• Travel to strategic locations in New York State as it relates to supporting city policies resources and relationships.
• Frequent travel and stays in Albany and other areas of the state.

Issue Areas:

• Community policing and harm reduction services.
• Overdose Prevention Centers and community buy-in.
• Homelessness and community encampments advocacy
• Advocacy for low threshold access to substance use treatment programs
• Access to mental health services for marginalized populations
• Opioid Settlement funding distribution and harm reduction services
• Civil rights for people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabilities.
• LGBT rights advocacy

• Minimum of a bachelors degree in human services or related work.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in community advocacy harm reduction social justice or human rights work.
• Understanding of and commitment to aggressive advocacy on HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
• Top-level organizing writing supervision and teamwork skills.
• Commitment to multi-level advocacy including direct action and civil disobedience.
• Experience in writing data collection editing and electronic communications.
• Understanding of and commitment to harm reduction principles.
• Ability to carry out culturally appropriate and racially aware organizing work
• Ability to speak Spanish and/or other languages a plus.

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York States first harm reduction-based OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management behavioral health and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information visit

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing healthcare HIV prevention and treatment among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Accordingly the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a CBA) between Housing Works and the RWDSU