Gender-Expansive Youth Researcher
The Gender-Expansive Youth (GEY) Researcher will collaborate with the Alliance for Girls (AFG) Youth Engagement Team to develop and implement strategies for intentionally partnering with gender-expansive youth* throughout the Bay Area. This role is critical in ensuring that the unique needs and perspectives of gender-expansive youth are prioritized and integrated into our work.
*At AFG, we define youth as anyone who is under the age of 26.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify Inclusion Gaps: Assist in identifying gaps in current practices and programs to ensure inclusivity for gender-expansive youth (GEY).
Project Development: Collaborate with the team to brainstorm and design projects that prioritize the unique needs of GEY, ensuring they are at the forefront of our efforts.
Facilitate Listening Circles: Conduct two listening circles in early November and mid-December. These circles will center GEY voices, focusing on their experiences with AFG and their broader perspectives on nonprofit organizations.
Resource Page Redesign: Contribute to help design of the GEY resource page on the AFG website, ensuring it is relevant and accessible to gender-expansive youth.
Research Review: Review previous AFG research and provide feedback on how it can be more inclusive. Offer recommendations on incorporating these insights into future projects.
This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by ensuring that gender-expansive youth are actively involved in shaping our programs and initiatives.
About Alliance for Girls
Join an organization that is relentless in its mission to improve the lives of girls** on the margins through collective action. As the nation’s largest association of girls’ organizations and school partners, our 120 organizations and 250 schools serve 300,000 girls and gender-expansive youth annually, 83% of whom are girls of color. Alliance for Girls (AFG) knits together a powerful girls’ service and leadership sector where girls’ and gender-expansive youth’s needs are met and their power is amplified.
“Listen first, act together.” At AFG we listen to our members, service providers and educators. We amplify the voices of girls and gender-expansive youth to guide our strategic direction. We believe that those closest to the struggle are closest to the solution. We strive to model a culture of self and communal care, grounded in values of equity and justice, through internal operations and external impact. We are constantly imagining, thinking and planning processes and approaches that enable excellence in our work and enhance collaboration among our team and partners.
Alliance for Girls’ unique combination of girl and community-driven research, coordinated initiatives driven by our membership’s intellectual and cultural power, and focused and inspired public advocacy enable us to affect deep and lasting change that directly improves girls’ lives and the systems that impact them. Join us as an important leader of this growing organization.
** At Alliance for Girls, “Girls and gender-expansive youth” refers to cis girls, trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth, gender queer youth, femmes, and any girl-identified youth.
Who Should Apply
Prospective candidates are community leaders passionate about equity and gender justice and interested in gaining experience in coordinating a variety of events as well as learning how organizational practices and processes can be more value-aligned. Ideal candidates are organized, self-starters, able to work independently, eager to learn, have excellent communication skills, and have some experience in community outreach or event organizing.
How to Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to Kennedy (kennedy@alliance4girls.org), and she will provide more details.
Deadline to Apply: Sep 16, 2024
Term: October 2024 - December 2024
Commitment: Approximately 8-10 hours per week. This is a remote position with at least 2 in-person events (Oakland, CA).
Compensation: This is an independent contractor position stipended at $3,000. Travel to/from off-site events will be reimbursed. Technology support is available.
Alliance for Girls is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disabilities, people of color, LGBTQIAA+ people, and those from diverse backgrounds/experiences to apply. We are currently unable to support visa sponsorships. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship. 