Regional Social Innovation Coordinator (VA)

Islamic Development & Empowerm; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Islamic Development & Empowerment in America (IDEA) seeks a Regional Social Innovation Coordinator to recruit and grow volunteers, convene community networks, and lead leadership programs across the DMV region. You will partner with local masajid, student groups, nonprofits, and community orgs to expand IDEA's impact through events and trainings.

You'll operate from IDEA's Alexandria headquarters, with extensive travel to Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, and DC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years in community organizing, volunteer management, program coordination, or similar work.
• Experience planning and running events, from small gatherings to large public programs.
• Experience designing or leading trainings, workshops, or leadership programs.
• Strong communication skills with audiences from students to executives.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends and travel regularly across the region.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and lead volunteers for IDEA's programs and events.
• Convene and connect communities across the DMV region.
• Lead IDEA Fellowship cohorts and deliver leadership workshops.
• Support partner organizations and help grow IDEA's impact through trainings and events.

Skills

Community organizing

Event planning

Leadership training

Strong communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Status: Full-Time

Position Summary

IDEA's Department of Social Innovation is on a mission to become America's top social innovation hub: the place where poverty ends and human flourishing is grown. We empower, connect, and educate emerging change makers we call Idealists, giving them the training and community they need to reduce suffering, build prosperity, and lead lasting change in their own communities.

Idealists believe a better world is possible. They are hopeful in times of despair. They plant seeds even in soil that shows no signs of life. They choose to change systems rather than go quietly into them.

As a Regional Social Innovation Coordinator, you will find these people, help them grow, and give them a home at IDEA. You'll be the go-to convener for emerging leaders, young professionals, students, masajid, and community organizations in your region. You'll host events that inspire, run trainings and a leadership Fellowship, and connect volunteers to meaningful work across IDEA's programs, from food distribution to medical missions.

While this role is based at IDEA's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, it is a regional job spanning five states and Washington, D.C.: Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, and DC. You'll build first and most deeply in the DMV, and you'll also be responsible for engaging communities and providing volunteer support across the rest of the region. This is a field role: you'll spend most of your time out in the community, not behind a desk.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Power IDEA's programs and fundraising (about 40%)

• Recruit, train, and lead volunteers for IDEA's Fund Development events, US Programs, food distributions, disaster response, and medical missions.
• Partner with IDEA teams from the start of planning to design volunteer experiences people love, then follow up and invite volunteers to their next step.
• Recruit emerging leaders for international volunteer trips to see IDEA's projects firsthand.

Convene and connect your community (about 40%)

• Build relationships with MSAs, young professional groups, masajid, nonprofits, and social enterprises across your region, and show up at their events.
• Host a monthly IDEA Night in your home city, building toward a large Ramadan IDEA Night with iftar, fundraising, vendor booths, and local organizations.
• Run quarterly convening in other cities in your region, such as pitch days and hackathons for good.
• Turn relationships into support for IDEA's work, in partnership with our Fund Development team.

Train and grow leaders (about 20%)

• Lead two IDEA Fellowship cohorts a year: a three-month leadership program for emerging change makers.
• Deliver workshops on organizing, storytelling, and social innovation, and help partner organizations build their capacity.
• Guide volunteers into IDEA's online leadership training and support them from their first event to leading their own projects.

Qualifications and Competencies :

• A bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years in community organizing, volunteer management, program coordination, or similar work
• Experience planning and running events, from small gatherings to large public programs
• Experience designing or leading trainings, workshops, or leadership programs
• Strong communication skills with audiences from students to executives
• Ability to work evenings and weekends and travel regularly across the region's five states and DC

Bonus points for: experience with fellowships, social entrepreneurship, impact investing, corporate employee resource groups, or storytelling and video, and familiarity with Muslim community institutions.

At IDEA (Islamic Development & Empowerment in America), we are committed to safeguarding and protecting all individuals we come into contact with through our work. IDEA representatives must adhere to its organizational values: Integrity, Service, Resilience, Social Innovation, and Collaboration. In accordance with these values, IDEA operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Code of Ethics, and Anti-Harassment and Discrimination.