Health Outreach Worker for Immigrant Project

Job Title: Community Outreach Worker

Status: 16-24 hours a week

Term: Present to June 30, 2025

Location: North Bergen, NJ

Centro Comunitario CEUS (CEUS) is looking to hire a part-time Spanish-English speaking Community Outreach Worker to work on our Proyecto Buena Salud (PBS), conducting outreach to immigrants, mainly Latinos, about the local social services, health and health insurance benefits available.

The ideal candidate would be keen to work in the health field, comfortable working with immigrants and passionate about helping people. Most of all the person must be motivated to reach out and engage community members, whether by phone or in person, from a table in the street to health events.

MISSION

CEUS started PBS in 2022 to conduct outreach around health issues and provide a referral service for immigrants. CEUS has provided legal and educational services and immigration advocacy for immigrant communities in Northern New Jersey for 32 years. Our organization serves hundreds of individuals each year with free and low-cost immigration legal services, a workplace rights program, a membership program and community organizing campaigns.

Our community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization was founded by Salvadorans who had fled their country’s civil unrest. It is still run and led by immigrants.

Summary of Principal Responsibilities:

This position is funded by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJ DOH) through the Latino Action Network Foundation (LANF). The Community Outreach Worker will help create and conduct an outreach campaign to communicate with immigrant communities in Hudson County. The outreach worker will engage and interview immigrants, and conduct outreach and marketing tasks such as posting flyers, attending health fairs, and staffing an outreach tables. The outreach worker will also develop partner relationships with organizations in the community to serve their clients, in person or through presentations at the organization’s events.

The worker will document the contacts and help analyze the compiled data. The work will be conducted from the CEUS office and in the community.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

The key responsibilities of the Community Outreach Worker include the following:

1. 1. Engage immigrant families.
   2. Improve health literacy of NJ families about services available, including the benefits of health care coverage, especially New Jersey Family Care.
   3. Identify and utilize innovative and best practices for targeted community outreach and enrollment, including digital methods such as social media, text and email communication.
   4. Promote health equity and build trust between immigrant communities and the CEUS Proyecto Buena Salud program.
   5. Work with Project Supervisor to establish outreach plans and strategies to communicate to immigrants in the Hudson County area.
   6. Conduct telephone and in-person one-on-one interviews and informational sessions with immigrant community members.
   7. Assist in conducting outreach to immigrant communities, local churches with large immigrant congregations and community partners.
   8. Participate in community forums to disseminate health information.
   9. Meet regularly with the Project Supervisor.
   10. Document all interviews/information-sharing contacts in databases to create an ongoing record.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 1. High school diploma required; associates or bachelor’s degree preferred.
   2. Public health and/or community organizing experience is a plus.
   3. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in multicultural contexts.
   4. Strong written and oral Spanish required and ability to read and speak English.
   5. Ability to attend evening and weekend meetings.
   6. Experience and comfort with speaking to individuals and groups.
   7. Self-motivated; detail-oriented, well-organized.
   8. Ability to communicate effectively and build mutually respectful relationships with co-workers, partners, and the public.
   9. Familiarity with virtual meeting platforms and with software applications in a Windows environment, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
   10. Status to work legally in the United States.

Compensation: $20-$21/hour; 16-24 hours/week.

Interested candidates should submit cover letter, resume and two references via email to Project Administrator Hugh Morley at

hmorley@ceusnj.org

For more information about Centro Comunitario CEUS: www.CEUSNJ.org. For more information about Proyecto Buena Salud:

https://ceusnj.org/es/programas/proyecto-buena-salud/

CEUS is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified persons are encouraged to apply regardless of their religious affiliation, race, sex, sexual orientation or nature of disability.