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Project Assistant
Job Location
Job runs from April 1 - September 30, 2022
Open Date:
Interviews expected to begin:
Type of Job
Project
$32.00 per hour
Project
Closing Date:
Hours Per Week
8
Project
Benefits
None
Summary
Friends of SHARP Seattle is seeking a part-time Project Assistant to support the implementation of the Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo-imagery (SHARP) project in Seattle’s Central District.
Position description:
The SHARP Seattle Project Assistant acts as the key person for outreach to community members, registering project participants, and coordinating the project. The Project Assistant will work closely with community members and the SHARP Seattle leadership team. The Project Assistant will receive supervision from one of the leadership team members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Job duties:
Outreach to community members in Seattle’s Central District
Recruit participants for the SHARP Seattle project
Enroll project participants and maintain participant paperwork
Coordinate and track project participants
Assign participants to walking groups
Respond to participant questions or concerns
Help coordinate kick-off and final celebration community event
Qualifications
How to Apply: To apply, please send cover letter and current resume or CV to FriendsOfSharpSeattle@gmail.com. Application deadline March 21, 2022.
Education & Experience
Skills & Abilities
Background:
SHARP Seattle aims to maintain or improve African American brain health through engaging older adults in culturally celebratory neighborhood walks and conversations in Seattle’s Central District. One-mile routes are accessible on tablets, using GPS-triggered historical images of Black life in the neighborhood to prompt small-group reminiscence as participants walk. Together, conversations form a digital oral history archive. Routes will be developed in the first half of 2022, with walking groups taking place in summer 2022. Read more about the origins of the SHARP program in Portland, here: https://www.sharpwalkingstudy.org/.
Friends of SHARP Seattle is a community group made up of representatives from Seattle Human Services Department - Aging and Disability Services, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, Central Area Senior Center, Black Heritage Society of Washington, Seattle Parks and Recreation, University of Washington de Tornyay Center, Oregon Health & Science University, and additional community members.
At Central Area Senior Center, we embrace the belief that racial and other social identities should be respected and affirmed. In support of this belief, we are building an equitable and inclusive organization and providing our team of staff, volunteers and board members with the tools to address institutionalized racism and other forms of oppression. All members of our team are responsible for providing and supporting an equitable and inclusive work environment that will enrich our interactions with each other and our products and services. This responsibility provides the foundation for empowering our customers (primarily those who are aging and giving care to others) so their needs are justly represented and their desires amply fulfilled.