Neighborhood Engagement Coordinator

ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD

The Campaign Finance Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency that empowers New Yorkers to have a greater impact on their elections. Our mission is to make local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable by removing barriers to participation.

We make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, meaningfully support candidates for city office, and run for office themselves. NYC Votes, our voter engagement initiative, meets people where they are to share trustworthy election information and help New Yorkers make a plan to vote. We publish the citywide Voter Guide, which delivers information about candidates directly to voters’ doors. Our public matching funds program ensures small contributions can make a big difference, allowing regular people to run for office by relying on the support of other regular people, not just wealthy donors and special interests.

We lift the veil on how candidates raise and spend money, increasing transparency and accountability in local government.

We believe that when every New Yorker is empowered to participate meaningfully in elections, candidates will better reflect the communities they serve, elected leaders will be more accountable to the public, and New Yorkers will have a democracy they can truly trust.

The Public Affairs division promotes the agency’s key role in equipping all candidates and voters to power a fairer and more open democracy in New York City. We engage New Yorkers, inform them about elections, and boost their civic participation in the democratic process. Within Public Affairs, the Partnerships and Outreach unit works to build partnerships across the city to disseminate voting information, deliver accessible voter education, and conduct direct to voter outreach.

The intention of this team’s work is to create pathways for all New Yorkers to gain trustworthy and accessible information and education around voting and democracy. Only then can we authentically increase civic participation and mobilize our communities beyond just voting.

We are seeking two Engagement Coordinators to join the Neighborhoods Team. The Team focuses on building trusting relationships with community partners and delivering in‑language voter education to voters that speak a language other than English (LOTE) in low voter turnout neighborhoods. The Engagement Coordinators will enhance our civic engagement education and services for community-based organizations in the NYC Votes priority neighborhoods of South Bronx, North & Central Queens, or East New York.

Each Coordinator will lead the implementation of education and engagement strategy in one of these neighborhoods and support the Partnerships and Outreach team in building and maintaining strong internal systems to organize and track partnership development.

The Engagement Coordinator will work closely with the Neighborhoods Team to identify and forge relationships with key stakeholders, understand and meet community needs through the provision of resources and materials, education delivery, event execution, and other engagement and education approaches. They will also collaborate with Public Affairs staff to assist in the overall development of resources, materials, and coordination of services.

We are looking for someone energized about on‑ground community engagement with strong relationship and trust‑building skills, project management, and organizational skills. We seek to work with someone passionate about making the voting process inclusive for those most marginalized in our society. Ideally, this candidate is aware or interested in deepening their understanding of how racism, ableism, classism, or other oppress ions show up in the voting process.

We believe that a diversity of experiences and perspectives will help us build stronger teams. We strongly encourage people of color/the global majority, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and people with other marginalized identities to apply. Members of our team are committed to modeling the values of collaboration and actively seek to disrupt harmful patterns in government service.

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