DIVAS for Social Justice (DIVAS) a non-profit organization empowers and inspires youth living in underserved communities in NYC to use tech and visual arts to promote social justice and become change makers in their communities.
We do this by instilling values of community pride and promoting community engagement. We provide youth with knowledge, skills, and community connections that enable them to engage with social justice issues in their communities.
Over the past 13 years, youth in Southeast Queens and Central Brooklyn have created multimedia social action projects that speak to the issues their communities face daily. DIVAS for Social Justice has successfully worked with youth to create interactive mapping projects about their communities.
DIVAS for Social Justice is continuing their social justice work with youth to now address gun violence through An Anti-Gun Violence Mapping Project.
DIVAS for Social Justice is proposing a 10-week program to teach youth, ages 12-16, community mapping skills. Community mapping skills will be taught through learning to produce media assets (photography, video, virtual reality) through free Web 2.0 online platforms. The community map created will focus on highlighting assets in the neighborhood that combat gun violence. The organization will focus on the following areas to highlight: Safe Spaces, Health and Wellness and Economic Development
The goals of this Anti-Gun Violence Mapping Project are:
- A greater understanding of how gun violence is a health crisis, and how it affects communities of color.
- Teach students the fundamentals of community mapping.
- Develop a clear understanding of community assets. Focusing on economic development & health & wellness.
- Allow students and facilitators to develop technical skills through open-source materials for deliverable output.
- Develop critical thinking skills through research of community assets that are effective in preventing gun violence.
DIVAS is interviewing for a Facilitator, Social Justice – Mapping Gun Violence responsible to achieve the above stated goals. The purpose of the Anti-Gun Violence Mapping project is to gather data and provide data driven guidance to reduce gun violence and strengthen the community.
DIVAS will lead youth in creating an interactive map that provides solutions to stop gun violence that address the root causes of gun violence.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work once a week to teach the curriculum and will work closely with the assigned community center and team at DIVAS to ensure a finished product.
- Participate in weekly reflection on curriculum implementation to assess if and how goals and objectives are being met, and if not how you might get there
- Facilitate up to 2 community-building circles with youth participants per month, grounded in developing the skills to create and implement the mapping process.
- Facilitate deliberative dialogues with youth participants;
- Contribute 3hrs of weekly program curricular development, with focus on community-building circle and deliberative dialogue plans that:
- Localizes curriculum to the context and interests of the learners
- Draws in examples that are culturally relevant and timely to support the educational goals
- Builds learners’ reading and writing literacy, technology literacy, and arts literacy skills and practices
- Participate in paid evening and weekend community prosocial events with DIVAS organization as needed;
- Other relevant duties, as assigned.
Growth and Development Opportunities:
- Expand technical skills
- Build curricular development skills through fleshing out curriculum and localizing to the context and learners
- Develop fundamental community organizing skills through research and building community relationships and partnerships
Qualifications:
- Prior or current experience working as a violence interrupter or credible messenger training/certification preferred.
- Prior Teaching Experience and/or comfort working with adolescents required.
- Understanding of dynamics related to gun violence in NYC communities required.
- Understanding and working knowledge of Web 2.0 skills (Google Maps, Soundtrap, Audacity, WordPress, Canva, and other Web 2.0 applications)
Position Type: Part Time, 15-20 hours per week
Compensation:$15-$20 an hour depending on experience
DIVAS is an equal opportunity employer. The Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities as well as individuals with prior contact with the criminal justice system.
As of September 9, 2021, all new hires are required to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. Only applicants under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.
Send resume to: jobs@divasforsocialjustice.org
