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The Mayor's Public Engagement Unit is looking for an AmeriCorps member to join our communications team. Interested in learning more about communications? Join our team!

We are currently looking to fill the following role (see below or click the hyperlink for job description): Communications Associate

The Communications Associate Corps Member at the Public Engagement Unit will work Monday – Friday from 10am – 6pm. Our office is located at 253 Broadway in downtown Manhattan.

City Service Corps, an AmeriCorps program launched in 2015 by NYC Service, a division of the Mayor’s office, recruits individuals to serve full-time from September 2024 - June 2025 at City agency host sites, including the Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit. City Service Corps is comprised of high-impact service projects led by city agencies in impact areas addressing critical capacity and community-related issues. Learn more about City Service Corps here and see all available positions here.

Looking to recruit: Public Engagement Unit Communications Associate

How to Apply:

  1. Click the following link below to visit the City Service Corps Application Page: https://www.nycservice.org/city_service_corps
  2. Once on the Application Page, click on the hyperlink within “Applications Now Open. Start Your Application Apply Now.” This section is right underneath “Engage Communities with City Service Corps.”
  3. Clicking on this hyperlink will send you to a new page where you should enter your email address. You need to submit your email address to request the link for the 2024-2025 City Service Corps Application in order to continue.
  4. Check your email, fill out the application, and submit!

Benefits of being a City Service Corps Member:

  • Living allowance of up to $21,000 (pre-tax) distributed evenly throughout the term
  • Members receive a MetroCard for commuting to and from service
  • Eli Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, valued at $4,827 upon successful completion
  • City Government exposure
  • Resume-building professional experience
  • Loan Forbearance and interest accrued paid on qualified student loans upon successful completion
  • On-site orientation and on-going monthly training provided by NYC Service 
  • Additional training and professional support at host site
  • Childcare assistance, if eligible
  • Health Coverage (member doesn’t pay premium or monthly enrollment fees) 

Job Description

Communications Associate

PLEASE NOTE: The duties and responsibilities in this service position description may be subject to change. In the rare event that there are any changes, the member will be notified prior to beginning the service year and the position description will be amended. All changes will be reviewed and approved by NYC Service in advance.

Goal of Project: 

The Communications Associate will play a critical role in helping support the office's daly press activities to ensure that more New Yorkers know about the City's resources and benefits, including but not limited to writing press releases, preparing Executive leadership briefings, drafting quotes, keeping track of PEU in the media, coordinating with jornalists and more.

Activities Include:

Manage Press Relations

  • Manage PEU's press inbox
  • Flag incoming press requests to relevant team members
  • Ensure timely response to requests

Support with written materials for press

  • Support the development of community and policy-focused fact sheets, flyers, press releases, statements, quotes, and op-eds, as well as digital and multi-lingual content
  • Support agency's response to questions, comments, and concerns received by mainstream press, community and ethnic media press, and constituents
  • Develop systems for organizing message memory for key issues and press incoming

Support with PEU events

  • Identify event opportunitues for PEU, including community events, speaking engagements, and more, where PEU can attend, speak, or promiote on their social media
  • Support planning and executive of PEU events, including social media planning and content creation
  • Suppoty preparing staff for PEU events or speaking engagements

Support PEU-wide efforts

  • Develop trainings for agency staff on communications and media relations best practices
  • Support outreach efforts to New Yorkers to New Yorkers through outreach tactics, including peer-to-peer texting, phone banking, canvassing, and relational organizing
  • Assisting staff with special projects and community outreach

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

  • Excellent writing, communication, organization, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to take initiative and work with tight deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
  • Experience in program/project coordination. 
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced work environment.
  • Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish, Mandarin, Bangla, Arabic, French or Haitian Creole highly preferred.

Also see full job description here.