Cooperative Development Institute: Northeast Center for Cooperative Business

LSA Family Health Service, founded in 1958, is a nonprofit community based organization that works with the people of East Harlem to address the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual dimensions of family health. Its home-based and center-based programs are designed to empower those who are most vulnerable and who have least access to the basic necessities of life in the conviction that the entire community grows when individuals and families are affirmed in their own dignity.

At this time, we are recruiting for a Cooperative Business Organizer/Manager to incubate a worker-owner cooperative that will run the warehousing, tagging and inventory functions of a retail thrift store. This is a p/t position (10 hours/week) to start, with the potential to grow into a f/t position with the development of a comprehensive Co-op Incubation Program.

Reporting to the Director of Community Adult Education, the successful candidate for the position of Cooperative Business Organizer/Manager will have:

• A strong interest/background in community organizing, worker/immigrant rights and the cooperative business model
• Experience in meeting facilitation, democratic decision-making, and mediation
• Ability to learn quickly and be interested in developing a variety of new skills; be able to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines; have the ability to work both autonomously and with groups.
• Willingness to engage with both the members and the customers of the co-ops.
• Superior organizational, interpersonal and communication skills; demonstrated experience of written and oral presentation skills.
• Bi-lingual Spanish/English skills (required).
• Entrepreneurial/Business skills a plus.
• Must be available to work some evenings and weekend hours
• B.A. degree preferred

Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with ED and Development Staff in seeking ongoing project funding.
• Coordinate process of legal incorporation of coops
• Conduct weekly coop meetings with members
• Develop ongoing technical and leadership trainings
• Develop, review and assist in implementing marketing strategy with co-op members
• Maintain customer contact database and Member information.
• Provide monthly financial reporting
• Work with members to develop promotions, e-newsletters, and updates to the website
• Outreach to media
• Develop resources and opportunities for further professional development for all co-op members
• Coordinate and lead entrepreneurship workshops

Compensation:

• Salary will depend on education and experience.

For more information and to schedule an interview, please contact Flor de Maria Eilets at feilets@lsafhs.org.

LSA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE
333 EAST 115th STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10029
Telephone: (646) 672 – 5200
www.littlesistersfamily.org