Job Opening: Community Tech Support Specialist

Aspiration and Community Technology Network are hiring four (4) Americorp VISTA Community Tech Support Specialists to provide strategic technical assistance to Bay Area nonprofit organizations whose missions help to reduce poverty. The positions are made possible through the HandsOn Tech Corps.

Submit your application on the Tech Corps site!

This is an Americorps position.

The Position

We are seeking individuals who embrace new challenges, who are passionate about supporting technology innovation for the nonprofit sector, who work hard yet considers “fun” a core value in the workplace, and has experience working as part of a close-knit team…

Working with ArtSpark and Creative Albuquerque, Matt facilitated a training around Online Media Skills. Sunny, warm and full of artistic inspiration, the training looked at how artists and arts organizations could put processes around their outreach online.

The following are the materials he used during the ArtSpark Training in Albuquerque.

Matt and Misty had a great time working with the UC Berkeley Labor Center on May 25th and May 26th for their Online Media Training Workshop. Talking to groups working across the labor movement, we had some great conversations around setting up organizational infrastructure for communications at your organization.

The following are the materials we used during the Berkeley Labor Center Spring 2011 eAdvocacy Trainings in Berkeley.

It’s down to Monterey, California to roll our road-tested social media slideware and interactive workshop format for The California Conference of Local Health Department Nutritionists (CCLHDN).

The event convenes professional nutritionists from each local health department in California. And a primary topic this year is how to use social media to advance local issues.

Misty Avila joins Aspiration as our eAdvocacy Program Coordinator. Misty will be taking our eAdvocacy Capacity Building Program into California’s Central Valley. This will include leading trainings, developing materials and serving as the network hub for those looking for Aspiration’s eAdvocacy work in the Central Valley.

Kicking off 2011, Aspiration is offering some free trainings around online communications support. The seminars on the slate are:

• Coordinating Online Communications Channels with a Publishing Matrix
  January 14th, 2011, 2pm-4pm
• Protecting Your Nonprofit’s Online Identity
  January 21st, 2011, 2pm - 4pm
• Building a Social Media Dashboard
  February 2nd, 2011, 2pm-4pm
• RFP Round Table
  February 8th, 2011, 2pm-4pm

All trainings will be held at the

San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center
1370 Mission St,
San Francisco, CA 94103.

Check out the training descriptions and let us know if you want to sign up…