Position: Community Event Coordinator Position Type: Part-Time City: Austin, TX Join the team that seeks to revolutionize the way Austinites navigate the urban core. Launched in December 2013, Austin B-cycle provides a 24-hour, 7-days/week service of on demand bikes at kiosks located throughout the downtown Austin area. Austin Bcycle is hiring creative, forward thinking professionals grow Austin’s first public bike sharing service to low-income communities. Austin B-cycle is implementing a grant-funded program to address challenges and barriers to entry for currently underserved communities. Our equity program will focus on very low-income residents who live or work in our service area as well as residents for whom Spanish is their primary language. Strategies and tactics developed to encourage bike share use as a low cost transportation alternative will be shared with other bike share cities across the country and scaled for the Austin community where successful. The Community Event Coordinator will work on events helping addressing barriers of cost, safety, comfort with bicycling, and language through a bilingual outreach and education campaign along with subsidized membership and cash payment options. This position will work with the Marketing Director to plan for on-site marketing promotions and operational needs for each. Applicants should be willing to work with other members of the outreach team and coordinate volunteers to meet program goals. Availability to work nights and weekends is required. The position is part-time up to 25 hours per week, paid hourly and designated as a temporary position for the term of the grant, six months. Pay will be competitive and benefits include commuting stipend, paid holidays, and complimentary Austin B-cycle membership. The equity program may be extended or made permanent pending success and additional grant funding. REQUIRED SKILLS: • Experience in event planning • Experience in customer service • Willingness to work in a low-income community and interact with a diversity of Austin residents • Strong communications and strategic planning skills • Comfort presenting to small and large groups and well as 1:1 communication with potential customers and partners • Report with best practices of implementation • Available to work nights and weekends • Bilingual fluency – English and Spanish • Energetic and dynamic outlook • Attention to detail • Willingness to learn new systems
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Ability to ride a bicycle Clean driving record Ability to lift 50 lbs
PREFERRED SKILLS • Bachelor’s degree • Experience coordinating volunteers and working with a team • Background working with affordable housing and support services organizations • Knowledge of the Austin market with existing relationships with small and medium size businesses and/or organizations, especially in the downtown Austin area • Experience in start up companies
We are committed to diversity among our staff, and recognize that success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best quality services. We are an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis. Applicants should have clean criminal record and must be willing to start on the week of August 3, 2015 or shortly after. Qualified candidates should submit cover letter and resume to Kristin Nelson at
[email protected]. No phone calls please.
