Independent Contractors for Outreach Street Team

Kingston Common Futures

Summary:

Kingston Common Futures is seeking four individuals to serve as independent contractors for the Outreach Street Team. The Street Team will work in collaboration with the Kingston Common Futures Communications & Outreach Manager, the Kingston Common Futures Co-Directors, and the Good Work Institute. This is a 4-month project scheduled to start January 2025.

Beyond funding local initiatives that serve the community, Kingston Common Futuresʼ primary goal is to cultivate a network of supportive relationships that help each other thrive. We are a highly grassroots initiative that depends on community engagement to see our vision through. In this first year, we want to ensure that information about this fund goes out far and wide, resulting in a diverse group of energized applicants eager to apply, and motivated volunteers excited and committed to supporting the process. The Street Team is central to achieving these goals.

Scope of Work:

• Get the word out! Help Kingston Common Futures make a big splash in Kingston and ensure opportunities to be involved reach diverse communities, in accordance with the mission of the fund.
• We are looking for Street Team contractors to activate their local networks, and encourage people to get involved with Kingston Common Futures as an applicant or a volunteer.
• Ways to get the word out might include:
  • Meeting with individuals and organizations to promote Kingston Common Futures and encourage participation.
  • Attend, host and/or provide support for KCF events that invite people in and motivate them to get involved.
  • Activate neighborhood volunteers to knock doors and introduce more people to the community fund.
  • Connect KCF with community organizations and local businesses who might be potential partners for KCF
  • Table at a community event hosted by a partner organization to introduce people to KCF.

• KCF’s Communications & Outreach Manager will be available to provide communications materials and support, and will invite all Street Team contractors to share successes and challenges, gather input, and evolve strategy together.
• Street Team contractors will share insights on their outreach efforts and on the messages they have received from community members engaged, as well as to provide recommendations to help inform KCF’s overall strategy in a final report submitted at the end of the contract term. Street Team contractors will also provide a contact list reflecting community members who have responded to invitations about the project at the end of the contract term.
• Time commitment will vary  anywhere between 1 and 10 hours per week.  The Street Team will primarily be focused on independently getting the word out within communities and to local organizations as well as supporting KCF outreach at events. This is a 4-month project, starting in January 2025. Street Team contractors will set their own hours outside of team meetings, and will be responsible for developing their own work plan each week.

Seeking a diversity of skills and strengths Kingston Common Futures is seeking candidates with great energy and skills. We are looking to assemble a diverse crew of folks to serve as independent contractors for the Street Team, with unique gifts that they may individually utilize in their roles:

• For people who love planning and executing community events, we invite you to bring your expertise and co-create fabulous events to shine a light on Kingston Common Futures.
• For content creators with capabilities to design, build, and create content, we are excited to see you use those skills to help get the word out further and with more clarity, in collaboration with our Communications & Outreach Manager.

We are committed to contracting from within the Kingston community and recognize that strong applicants may not have all the skills or experience listed her

Weʼre Looking For:

• Experience in and excitement for community outreach and engagement in Kingston
• Deep connection to diverse communities and organizations within Kingston
• A relationship builder with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of people
• Comfort with working independently
• Comfort with emergence and iteration (this is a new project) and a sense of humor!
• Ability to commit to 1-2 hours of team meetings per week (days/time TBD).
• Preferred: Fluency in Spanish and/or other languages represented in Kingston
• Preferred but not required: experience in event production and/or content creation

Advantages

• A work schedule that allows for flexibility and independent scheduling
• The ability to operate independently to achieve desired outcomes
• Choose your own hours, with expected hours of between 1 and 10 per week

Compensation

• This is an independent contractor position, paid upon receipt of an invoice, at a rate of $30/hour with a maximum of 40 hours ($1200) per month.
• The chosen candidate will be an independent contractor and will not be considered an employee of Kingston Common Futures or its fiscal sponsor, The Good Work Institute and will not be eligible for benefits.

To Apply:

Please fill out the application form available here and send your resume to hello@kingstoncommonfutures.org. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

About Kingston Common Futures
MISSION

Kingston Common Futures exists to redistribute power, provide support, and democratically allocate financial resources back in the hands of the people of Kingston for a more just and thriving community. We are guided by the principles of Just Transition in all our work.

CORE VALUES

• We share power and nurture democratic decision-making
• We actively listen to community
• We operate with trust, transparency, and generosity
• We are passionate about building relationships across difference
• We believe conflict is an opportunity for learning and growth

Kingston Common Futures is an emerging project that is guided by a community fund design created in 2023-2024 by 18 Kingston residents. Kingston Common Futures began operating in September 2024 with two co-directors and is expanding to include a full-time Communications & Outreach Manager and four Outreach Street Team contractors to help implement the pilot fund.

Our Work Culture:

As we begin building the foundation of our initiative, we strive to co-create a culture that is inclusive, equitable, and supportive so that folks can bring their whole selves to their work. We strive to invoke a way of working that protects us from normative, pressurized and perfectionist standards of todayʼs world, that invites personal and collective reflection.

Our Partners

Kingston Common Futures is a fiscally sponsored project of the Good Work Institute and is also being incubated by GWI, with seed funding from NoVo in Kingston.

To learn more about how Kingston Common Futures came to be, check out: https://goodworkinstitute.org/building-community-wealth/