Chicana Chicano Resource and Education Center at Casa Montana

Details

The Community Support Specialist will live together in a commune style environment. Living in a residential downtown area in Sunnyside, Washington.

You will be required to work with the group to aide the community using individual strengths and sharpening leadership skills.

The position is ideal for those hardcore passionate, determined, courageous, self motivated, inventive, inspirational individuals who work quickly on their feet and keep an open mind.

True hardcore activist/ organizers who are natural born leaders are strongly encouraged to apply.

We provide room and board, a weekly stipend, networking and activist training opportunities.

Ideal for students.

position deadline September 23, 2004

candidates will be contacted on or before September 30, 2004

Employment Opportunity

Seeking pioneer activist who live for social change and are seeking a new challenge to serve untargeted, underserved, and unrepresented groups in the Yakima Valley (Washington).  By using the humanities and other ways of artistic expression as a form of neo-community activism.  We seek social entrepreneurs ready to use their skills to motivate and mobilize others, promote the program, and solve issues in their community that will develop long lasting positive results with this area population.  Ideal candidates will posses leadership skills, have strong sense to tap into resources with local government, media, funders, and develop strong ties with other nonprofits and individuals.  If you have a social and environmental justice spirit and are willing to take on the job full time, live under one roof  with a group of like minded individuals then consider the position of Community Support Specialist. 

Community Support Specialist (CSS) are broken up into 4 positions what will work together to solve problems full time. 

Artist(s)- defined as musicians, writers, storytellers, poets, visual artists and performing artists and open to unidentified forms of artistic expression.

Chicano/a Activist- experienced in working with Chicano populations in community spirit, on-line, in school as a volunteer, as an organizer, as a avid researcher and other forms of activism. 

Educator- experience in educating groups, families (even your own), at risk populations or in a school environment.  A strong heart of an educator regardless of education.

Feminist- experience in women's issues, feminist work, empowering Latinas/ Chicanas, young women's issues and ect.

Minimum Requirements

Willing to dedicate  full time (24/7) work to  experimental activist work

Willing to keep an open mind and provide positive support to other Community Support Specialist and at risk population

How To Apply

Send a resume and cover letter with full contact information with activist work experience to the address listed below:

Casa Montana C/O Luis Lara

401 Swan Road

Sunnyside, WA 98944

or send it through e-mail at [email protected] under a Word file

...on a separate sheet indicate under which CSS position you are applying for and answer the following questions in an essay style no longer than 2 pages

Question #1 What are your short and long term goal as a community activist?

Question #2 What are your strengths and abilities and how can to use them to better serve the organization and community?

Question #3 Why are you an ideal candidate and why do you deserve a opportunity to work with the Chicana Chicano Resource and Education Center at Casa Montana?

Question #4 What experience do you have living in a shared environment and/or how do you know you could successfully serve the community while living in such habitat?