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KeelWorks is a 501c3 charitiable foundation with a mission to get people to work - especially the economically disadvantaged. We have two active programs and one in development. The KeelWings program supports student trasition to employment. The KeelMate program helps the experienced transition from an unsustaining field to another. The KeelMaster program is our most ambitious project: it will get the most challenged unemployed to gainful employment. The KeelMaster program requires significant software development. We need individuals skilled in visual representation. For our website, we need visuals that illustrate the problem we address poverty caused by poor employment (unemployment, underemployment, unskilled employment). Our courses need visual metaphors to support the abstract concepts. Volunteers can participate in small doses or take ownership on projects. The benefit to KeelWorks is substantial. The benefit to volunteers is often the ability to add a successful project to their resume. Budding graphic artists need to show employers how they can employ their talent to address practical challenges. Projects The incumbent will pick small tasks they feel comfortable handling from the many needs. There are many challenges, some of which list below. Help create or select visuals that stimulate empathy for those struggling to reach sustaining employment. Help with developing visuals to support courses like critical thinking, communication, self-identity, and assertiveness. Visuals to support social media messaging. Some think our logo needs "modernizing" (The name KeelWorks refers to the effort to build a basis for better wages).
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
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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. The person accepting this position assists in processing and onboarding of volunteers. Track new volunteers. Schedule initial meetings. Ensure that agreements are sent after initial meetings Setup a KeelWorks account for each Grant new volunteers access to systems Schedule onboarding sessions Run onboarding sessions Assign volunteers to teams
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
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The KeelWorks foundation is developing training, internal communication, social media, and web marketing. We have many demands for software developers: front-end, back-end, and database development. We have more volunteers than we can manage, though not more than we can use. We need to establish program standards and procedures and perhaps quality criteria. The person in this role will establish programming standards, determine the best technologies to use on projects, assign programmers, recognize with a developer needs another hand (they always want to do everything alone), and advise programmers when needed. The person for this job might be a retiring program manager, a seasoned, but unemployed program manager, or one wishing to advance to program management. If you feel up to this challenge, we could use your help. If you wish to use this opportunity as a springboard to better opportunities, we'll help in any way we can. 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.
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
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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.
Date Posted: 2024-10-15
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
The KeelWorks foundation is developing training, internal communication, social media, and web marketing. We have many demands for software developers: front-end, back-end, and database development. We have more volunteers than we can manage, though not more than we can use. We need to establish program standards and procedures and perhaps quality criteria. The person in this role will establish programming standards, determine the best technologies to use on projects, assign programmers, recognize with a developer needs another hand (they always want to do everything alone), and advise programmers when needed. The person for this job might be a retiring software engineer or an experience software engineer wishing to advance to management. 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.
Date Posted: 2024-10-15