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***DIRECTOR OF DATA AND QUALITY ASSURANCE***

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a twenty-eight year-old resident-led, non-profit planning and organizing group in the Roxbury/North Dorchester area of Boston. DSNI’s mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create, and control a vibrant, diverse and high quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners. In order to realize the neighborhood’s vision of a vibrant urban village, DSNI has organized to make significant strides in the areas of land control, affordable housing, community facilities, urban agriculture, youth development, and community building.  Progress in our neighborhood is the result of robust and complex collaborative efforts among partners including residents, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and others. To support this work going forward, DSNI aims to hire staff who are dedicated to oversight of data gathering and analysis in support of our understanding of the impact of our work as well as the health of our partnerships. To this end, we seek to hire a new Director of Data and Quality Assurance.  The position will be a permanent position, and will be a part of a 12 member Senior Staff team at DSNI. There are no staff (yet) assigned to the Director of D&QD but s/he will work closely with all DSNI staff, Board and partner organizations. The position reports to DSNI’s Executive Director. A detailed job description follows below.

Responsibilities:

The purpose of using data in the way described within this job posting is to help DSNI better understand how specific supports, programs, policies and practices support (or interfere with) the achievement of the goals set by our community, including but not limited to the impacts on educational outcomes for Dudley children.  The Director of Data and Quality Assurance will help to understand the systems and the impacts and implications of the many programs, policies and practices as they work together and affect each other; understanding the synergies, the unintended consequences and the unanticipated multiplier effects (for better or worse) of the concentration of efforts in this neighborhood.

Summary of Job:

The Director of Data and Quality Assurance directs, administers, and coordinates the data systems development, data gathering and data analysis necessary to guide the development and expansion of successful DSNI planning, coordinating and organizing efforts. Building from multiple data systems and sources, the Director will create and oversee the creation of custom made databases as well as coordinate DSNI’s use of specific platforms to track progress of programs and initiatives as needed. Taken together, these data systems should be built to track data on all of the neighborhood’s children, including demographic information, services rendered, and outcomes achieved as well as data on programs serving our children, and data on the impact of policy changes and institutions realignments made in service to the our community’s goals. This position will manage the day-to-day activities of the data functions of the organization and is responsible for producing reports that will inform the decision making of DSNI and partner organizations.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with programs to verify and clean multiple sources of program data and work with DSNI staff, evaluators and partners to will help collect, analyze, and use data to inform decisions
• Disseminate data on the impact of the complete continuum of programs coordinated by DSNI
• Conduct analysis of data for completeness and accuracy and to support programmatic improvement and achievement of goals across the agency
• Track and develop reports on staff utilization for portfolio of program sites
• Troubleshoot barriers to staff utilization and reporting
• Collaborate with program staff to identify needed database elements and enhancements and to translate user needs into technical solutions
• Help design and run trainings (group and one-on-one) for users
• Create, maintain, and update, as needed, training and curricula materials
• Provide user technical support and customer service as needed for the database
• Work closely with program staff, evaluation partners, and development staff to report and develop tracking for program goals
• Assist in the development of guidelines and procedures for data tracking and management
• Advise and participate in the development of long range planning, introductions of new programs/strategies and regulatory oversight
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• 2 to 4 years of related experience working with data and tracking outcome metrics required, preferably in the social services sector
• Extremely comfortable working with outcomes and/or metrics
• Superior organizational and analytical skills
• Direct working experience or interest in data management and statistical analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong computer skills, particularly in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Access
• Strong group training and facilitation skills
• Knowledge of ETO software is a strong plus
• Strong customer service sensibility required
• Familiarity with statistical software

Neighborhood residents and bilingual applicants preferred.

Salary for this position is $60,000 - $70,000 annually. DSNI offers a comprehensive benefits package.

To be considered, interested applicants must submit a cover letter and resume by email to Luzia Centeio at lcenteio@dsni.org with “Data/QA Director Application” in the subject line. Please cc: jlipnack@dsni.org No telephone inquiries or recruiters please. DSNI is an EOE.

Women and People of Color Encouraged to Apply.  Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

 

***COMMUNITY ORGANIZER (UNPAID INTERNSHIP)***

The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is a non-profit planning and organizing group celebrating over 27 years as a successful, resident-led coalition working to create an urban village in the Dudley neighborhood of Roxbury/North Dorchester. DSNI’s mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high-quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
The Community Organizer will work as a team member to strengthen the neighborhood revitalization work. They will work with staff, residents, committee and Board members to unfold planning and organizing efforts to realize the neighborhood’s vision of a vibrant urban village.

Responsibilities:

• Work with DSNI Organizers to carry out organizing and planning activities. This includes door knocking, passing out flyers and talking to residents.
• Organize residents and other stakeholders to actively engage in the neighborhood revitalization effort, using door knocking, phoning, neighborhood meetings, and other outreach methods.
• Communicate regularly with residents and others stakeholders through written materials and personal contact
• Work as part of DSNI’s overall organizing efforts to Build Our Urban Village
• Attend meetings representing DSNI.
• Investigate, evaluate, and share various tools and models for outreach, organizing and collaboration.
• Prepare regular reports and articles on activities.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to DSNI’s mission and organizing principles
• Respect for resident decision-making and community planning
• Ability to take initiative while working well as part of a team
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work long hours and be flexible
• Familiarity with neighborhood issues
• Ability to work in a multicultural setting
• A sense of humor always helps

For more information contact:

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 504 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119.

Women and People of Color Encouraged To Apply.  Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

***TITLE SEARCHER (UNPAID INTERNSHIP)***
Dudley Neighbors Inc. (DNI) is a Community Land Trust in the Roxbury and North Dorchester area of Boston, organized as an Urban Redevelopment Organization under MGL Chapter 121A.  DNI’s Mission is Is to implement the community revitalization plans of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), which espouses development without displacement and includes affordable housing, economic development, open space and other amenities of the Urban Village.

Job Summary:
To search public and private records to compile a list of documents pertaining to property titles, such as mortgages, deeds, and assessments. To create a reference system of all deeds of land that DNI and it affiliates own.

Essential Functions:

  • Searches records available at DNI, City of Boston Assessing Department and or Suffolk Registry of Deeds to compile all legal deeds for parcels owned by DNI & its affiliates.
  • If required, obtains maps or drawings of property from surveyor or assessor's office or from title companies.
  • Prepares reference system and report with information compiled that would be useful for future work reference.

Qualifications:

  • Ability to take initiative while working independently and as part of a team
  • Have working knowledge on how to title search using City of Boston Assessing Department and Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
  • A sense of humor always helps
  • Word processing and other computer experience (Microsoft word, excel, Adobe Acrobat).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills a must.
  • Must be organized and attentive to detail.

Position Type: Unpaid Internship

Please reply with letter of interest and resume immediately to: Jason Webb, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 504 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 or email to jwebb@dsni.org

Women and People of Color Encouraged to Apply.  Equal Opportunity Employer.