Job Title: Financial Equity Coordinator
Location: Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
Reports to: Executive Director
Position Type: Full-time (hybrid, with travel across New York State). Position may be located across New York State, at one of RMM’s four centers: Hudson Valley, Catskills, Finger Lakes, Eastern Long Island (keeping in mind that the position requires monthly travel to all four centers).
About Rural & Migrant Ministry, Inc. (RMM):
Rural & Migrant Ministry, Inc. (RMM) is a 40-year-old, non-sectarian organization dedicated to creating a just and equitable rural New York State. We focus on nurturing leadership, standing with the disenfranchised — especially farmworkers and rural workers — and changing unjust systems and structures. Our mission is carried out through our three primary program areas: Accompaniment, Popular Education and Youth Empowerment, operating across four worker education centers in New York State.
Recent Highlights:
- Received a $1 million gift from the Yield Giving Open Call and MacKenzie Scott.
- Partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative, enhancing our strategic effectiveness in addressing issues faced by New York's farmworking and rural families.
Job Summary:
The Financial Equity Coordinator, working in collaboration with both Rural & Migrant Ministry Inc. (RMM) and our sister credit union, The New York Episcopal Federal Credit Union (NYEFCU), will oversee the implementation of RMM’s fiscal equity program in rural New York which includes: financial literacy educational programs, support for RMM’s cooperatives and the implementation of the New York Episcopal Federal Credit Union in rural New York. In order to carry out these functions, the Financial Equity Coordinator will travel across rural New York, working through RMM’s four worker education centers as well as to New York City to work with NYEFCU.
Key Responsibilities:
NYEFCU
- Introduce the Credit Union to the members of RMM located in our four worker education centers and beyond.
- Support RMM members’ enrollment in the Credit Union and help service their banking needs.
- Provide educational programs and services to Credit Union members.
- Help members develop strategies to build up their credit.
Rural Academy of the People
- Oversee the development and implementation of a financial equity curriculum that enables grassroots, rural people build their financial literacy, develop strategies for avoiding exploitation and better understand the opportunities of the Credit Union.
- Collaborate with other RMM staff members to develop and implement a curriculum for grassroots members to strengthen existing cooperatives as well as develop and run new cooperatives.
Advocacy
- Working with other RMM colleagues, help RMM’s members’ voices be heard at the policy-making tables that impact their financial wellbeing.
Organizational Representation:
- Represent RMM in select coalitions, summits and conferences.
- Work with the Executive Director to present programs to donors and potential donors.
- Strengthen community connections and enhance efforts to build collective action toward systemic change.
Strategic Leadership:
- Collaborate with the Executive Director on strategic initiatives, including the implementation of RMM's strategic plan.
- Drive innovative solutions that expand access to resources, such as building up credit unions and cooperatives, to support rural and farmworking families.
Cultural Competence and Team Dynamics:
- RMM offers a dynamic, multigenerational, and multicultural work environment that values collaboration, inclusivity and creativity.
- Engage with diverse communities, including faith communities, unions and academic institutions.
- Play a key role in navigating organizational changes and fostering a sense of unity and purpose among staff and community members.
Requirements:
- Committed to social justice and transformation.
- Experience in working with grassroots people.
- Experience in working with financial institutions.
- A people person … to the nth degree!
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Well-organized and committed to systems and details. Comfortable with computers and database systems.
- Experience in public speaking and storytelling, and able to convey RMM’s mission and vision.
- The commitment to be in relationship with grassroots people, and the ability to enable their voices to be heard.
- A willingness to travel across New York State.
- Availability to meet with people in the evenings and on weekends.
- Strong written skills.
- Proven, successful leadership in program management, with measurable outcomes.
- Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and experience in working collaboratively with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
This is a full -time position with flexible hours and days. Total compensation package is up to $100,000 which includes:
- Salary, full family medical and dental insurance, four weeks’ vacation, contributions to a retirement program and a sabbatical (three months paid after seven years).
RMM’s Global Non-discrimination Policy provides that we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, pregnancy, covered veteran status, protected genetic information and/or political affiliation.
To apply, please send résumé and cover letter to: Richard Witt, Executive Director: richard@rmmny.org or mail to:
Rural & Migrant Ministry, Inc.
PO Box 475
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520.