KeelWorks Foundation

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Community
Computers & Technology
Employment
Immigrants & Refugees
International

Location

2398 WEST BEACH RDOAK HARBOR, WA 98277 United States

Website:

https://keelworks.org

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Active Opportunities (26)

Human Resource Generalist

Flexible Schedule | Virtual Opportunity

Nearly all of the hundreds of volunteers that come to KeelWorks each year come to establish a basis for employment. They leave when they get a job, and this is expected - we exist to help people get to gainful employment. The incumbent in this position will be able to add this experience to their resume as a job. KeelWorks will support them with resume guidance and a job reference. KeelWorks Foundation is a charitable foundation committed to assisting those who are economically disadvantaged in leading more sustainable lives. We offer a change management approach built on heightened competencies, reciprocal assistance, and knowledge gained. The HR department of KeelWorks is responsible for managing various aspects related to the organization's employees. This document lays out the general job description of the HR department including recruitment, onboarding and training new staff members as well as engaging new staff. Here are some of the parts of HR that you can get involved with: Recruitment and selection: Attracting and choosing best applicants to fit the needs of our organization. This involves developing job descriptions, posting vacancies, managing applications, and conducting interviews with a keen eye for talent and cultural fit. Onboarding and Orientation: Welcoming new volunteers to the organization and facilitating their orientation programs. Ensuring that all new recruit documentation is done correctly and in accordance with organizational policies and regulations. Organization and utilization of the workforce: Creating a structure for the organization that optimizes human resources and sets up channels of communication. General Administrative Support: Help the HR staff with general administrative tasks such as meeting scheduling, document preparation, and correspondence management. As delegated, support unique HR projects and activities. Job analysis: Describing the roles, duties, and knowledge and abilities required for each position. Diversity, equity and inclusion: Create policies and practices that guarantee equal treatment and nondiscrimination for all team members. Performance Management and Development: Implement and oversee a performance management system that encourages continuous improvement and personal growth. This includes setting performance standards, conducting evaluations, and offering constructive feedback and development opportunities. Employee Relations and Engagement: Serve as a liaison between management and employees, addressing concerns, facilitating conflict resolution, and cultivating a positive work environment. Engage employees through regular communication, recognition programs, and team-building activities. Training and Development: Identify training needs and design programs to enhance the skills and competencies of employees and volunteers. This includes organizing workshops, seminars, and other educational opportunities to support professional growth and organizational effectiveness. Compliance and Policy Management: Ensure that all HR practices comply with legal and regulatory requirements and align with organizational policies. Keep abreast of changes in employment law and implement necessary policy updates. If interested, please fill out this application: https://forms.gle/YA8xXiNJVEWmtLn39 We will get back to you within 2 days!

Date Posted: Mar 31, 2025
Grant Researcher/Writer

Flexible Schedule | Virtual Opportunity

The KeelWorks foundation misson is to get people to work and to drive full inclusion. We are designing and buiding an ambitious program to support change for the persistently unemployed or underemployed. We already help hundreds of unpaid interns practice so they can gain full time paid employment. We have no paid staff, but we would dearly like to change that. We need grant wriing ot help change that. The person for this job might be retiring or it might be someone intersted in entering this field. For the latter, we can point to courses to support learning for this skill. If you feel up to this challenge, we could use your help. This position is unpaid, largely asynchronous, and virtual. Participating with the foundation allows participants to add experience to their resume as if it were a job. We help with resumes and portfolios for those desiring this help. To learn more about our foundation, please visit our web page at https://keelworks.org. The KeelWorks Foundation needs volunteers interested in grant opportunity identification (research) or grant writing. We have big plans, but tiny funding. We want to change that. We need a volunteer willing to research grant opportunities and/or willing to support grant application or proposal writing. If interested, please fill out this application: https://forms.gle/YA8xXiNJVEWmtLn39 We will get back to you within 2 days!

Date Posted: Mar 31, 2025
Public Relations Program Manager

Flexible Schedule | Virtual Opportunity

The foundation, like any organization, needs a clear and consistent messaging. Messaging needs to contain, as context, the organizational mission, values, and strategy. Just as important is internal communication. The program manager should ensure that all formal communication within the organization is screened. As it happens, more people leave an organization for reasons of values than for pay. Every organization has values stated and lived. The ones we live are the ones that count. The program manager needs to put as much emphasis on this as they do for external communication because who we are internally eventually bleeds out. What we communicate, internally and externally, is who we are. Our mission is to get people to work. We espectially focus on supporting economic parity. Our values are Honesty: Transparency, integrity, and a commitment to truth. Competence: Building for individual empowerment and mutual value. Diversity: Full inclusion with equality and dignity for all. Community: Mutual support: together, we can do anything! Leadership: Leading with integrity for the benefit of all. Our behavior will reflect our values. The Cause In this world there are the haves and the have nots. The haves come to the table, the have nots are on the outside looking in. It is easy to believe that we, with our sterling education, excellent job, good society, and more money than we really need, have these because we deserve them. And that those without these are without them because they simply didn’t work for it. We believe life is more complicated than that. Given different circumstances, those on the inside and those on the outside might be reversed. We believe everyone has something essential to contribute. We believe inclusion makes for a more peaceful world. We believe we CAN foster sustainable and measured change. We think today’s needy can be the helpers of tomorrow. Change is difficult, often because we are scared, ignorant, ill-equipped, and alone. KeelWorks addresses these factors for greater success. Our special "sauce" is: address the barriers, arm with basic competencies, provide the savvy of lessons learned, and provide a community of mutual support and accountability for as long as it takes. KeelWorks has no religious or political affiliation. We believe diversity, in all its forms, breeds perspective, and the learning is better for it. Rich and poor, intellectually advantaged and intellectually challenged, black, indigenous, asian, white, Muslim, Jew, Catholic, Hindu, or atheist; the broader the base, the better. We can help the unemployed create jobs where no jobs exist, we can help the displaced workers and homemakers reinvent themselves, we can help refugees from incarceration, tyranny, and poor choices redefine themselves for better futures. We can do this - only with your help. If interested, please fill out this application: https://forms.gle/YA8xXiNJVEWmtLn39 We will get back to you within 2 days!

Date Posted: Mar 31, 2025
Legal Research Expert (statutory)

Flexible Schedule | Virtual Opportunity

The KeelWorks Foundation is dedicated to getting people to work. We’ve been doing this for 16 years and helped thousands. We are now building a comprehensive program to help the most challenged unemployed get to work. This position is needed to support people needing to work from home cooking food. This is a budding field that is perfect for displaced homemakers and people needing quick and flexible employment. To do this, however, we need to collect information on local laws governing food preparation for sale performed in home kitches. The person for this job might be retired, an exceptional recent grad, or a group of volunteers working as a team. This person could have zero experience and learn on the job or be a seasoned researcher. This position is unpaid, largely asynchronous, and virtual. Participating with the foundation allows participants to add experience to their resume as if it were a job. We help with resumes and portfolios for those desiring this help. We also hope to find a way that those doing this can reap some remuneration over time from usage fees. To learn more about our foundation, please visit our web page at https://keelworks.org. Interested parties, please Complete this application: https://forms.gle/YA8xXiNJVEWmtLn39 Email thomas.garrod@keelworks.org with a resume. We will respond within 2 business days!

Date Posted: Mar 31, 2025
Certified Public Accountant

Flexible Schedule | Virtual Opportunity

The foundation would like to have a certified accountant to approve our books once a year to validate our claims of percent of donations going to recipient benefit. We welcome oversight in all of our financial dealings, but the anual review is the primary need.

Date Posted: Mar 10, 2025

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Organization Information

Mission Statement

To support a better world with better citizens by fostering learning competence, emotional intelligence, and networked intelligence. KeelWorks especially wishes to bring greater participation to the economically disadvantaged across the globe. We are building a system to support upward mobility.

Description

KeelWorks is a 501c3 foundation. Since 2008 hundreds of graduate students and unemployed workers, reached gainful employment while helping KeelWorks build structure for change. We want to end poverty across the world, changing one life at a time. The KeelWings program for recent students and the KeelMate program for transitioning workers apply their learning while gaining experience supporting the KeelMaster program development. This experience reflected in a competent resume - with our guidance - qualifies them as a credible job applicant. The KeelMaster program is designed to support employment for the more challenged unemployed. This program begins with barrier identification and mitigation, assigns participants facilitated teams where they learn core competencies, ending with goal determination. They access training, and while doing so, join paid internships. Mutual support, core competencies, application, and clear and objective progress metrics support measured results. This structure for change will be replicated over and over across the globe. While other programs give the needy fish, we teach teach them to fish.

Reviews

by John B. (February 21, 2025)

It is a good organization dedicated to a worthy cause of helping people get jobs by giving them education & experience.

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