The Mateel Community Center is Hiring

This is a press release from the Mateel Community Center:

Please see information below regarding 2 job opportunities at the Mateel Community Center.

Job Description

OFFICE MANAGER

The ideal candidate will have excellent people skills, above average computer and communication skills, and be a self-starter. Primary tasks include:

  • Coordinating volunteers, working closely with MCC’s Board of Directors and volunteer coordinator to recruit and manage volunteers for all MCC events, updating and maintaining MCC’s volunteer database.
  • Assisting with MCC programs, such as Step-Up interns, Adopt-a-Hwy, KMUD radio show, Independent column, outreach/tabling/fundraising at other community events and organizations.
  • Organizing annual Membership Drives, membership meetings and memberships appreciation party.
  • Organizing, cataloging and archiving all posters, photos and memorabilia.
  • Helping coordinate sending of emails to MCC’s listserv of several thousand recipients in coordination with the Board of Directors and MCC media coordinator or publicist
  • Helping with Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts associated with the MCC, in coordination with the Board of Directors and media coordinator or publicist
  • Handling MCC and festival merchandise ordering, sales, inventory, marketing, and info booth.
  • General high-level administrative and office management tasks.
  • Reporting to Board of Directors on a regular basis, supervising Office Assistant(s).

10-20 hours a week – Pay based on experience.

Job Announcement

Office Manager – Ability to work in a team environment. Excellent communication, people and computer skills are a must. Duties include recruiting and orienting numerous volunteers, ordering, sales and inventory of merchandise, answering Mateel Community Center phones, filing, data entry and other general office tasks. 10-20 hours a week to start. Pay based on experience. More info at www.mateel.org. Send resume to [email protected] or by U.S. mail to Hiring Committee c/o Mateel Community Center, PO Box 1910, Redway or call 923-3368.

Job Description

OFFICE ASSISTANT

The ideal candidate will have above average computer and communication skills. Primary tasks include:

  • Reporting to and supporting the Office Manager and MCC Board regarding coordination of volunteers, members, and staff, both on a regular basis and for special events
  • Checking and responding to phone, mail, email, and other office-related communications in a timely and professional manner.
  • Organizing, cataloging and archiving all posters, photos and memorabilia.
  • Handling MCC and festival merchandise ordering, sales, inventory, marketing, and info booth.
  • General low and medium-level administrative and office management tasks.
  • Reporting to the Office Manager on a regular basis.

5-10 hours a week, depending on need – Pay based on experience.

Job Announcement

Office Assistant – Ability to work in a team environment. Excellent communication, people and computer skills are a must. Duties include low and medium-level administrative and office management tasks, such as answering Mateel Community Center phones, filing, data entry and other general office tasks. 5-10 hours a week to start. Pay based on experience. More info at www.mateel.org. Send resume to [email protected] or by mail to Hiring Committee c/o Mateel Community Center, PO Box 1910, Redway or call 923-3368.

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Karen Ann
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Karen Ann
2 years ago

What does “Pay based on experience” mean? Who’s making that determination and are they qualified to even do so? Seems shady not to list what the earnings would be for the position forthright.

Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago
Reply to  Karen Ann

Karen. Welcome to the real world. ‘Based on experience’ means just what it says. The less experienced, the more training they will require. The more experienced, the more efficiently the (backlog of) work can get done! (More productivity is appropriately rewarded).
As far as payment being “shady”, it’s obvious that once their level of experience (and what they offer the MCC) is determined, the Mateel will make them an offer and the applicant can either accept of reject it. Simple!

Redway Resident
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Redway Resident
2 years ago

WOW that’s an awful lot of job responsibilities. I agree they need to list the salary for this position. For the amount of obligation the starting hourly wage should not be less than $30 per hour. Anything less would be insulting. I’m also curious how a business in so much debt can pay someone. Why aren’t the BOD taking on any of these tasks until they are financially solvent?

Anon
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Anon
2 years ago

You sound qualified; how about join the board and get busy fulfilling those duties AND work for free organizing volunteers, maintaining databases and sorting through t-shirts. Ok.

Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago

How many jobs in So Hum that are not directly related to cannabis are paying employees $30 per hour. Appreciate you sharing a list of them RR.
Yes! Anon is right. Many people care about the MCC and all that it has to offer the community. And they would be stoked to be paid instead of just volunteering. (While it is not in the job descriptions, ‘an appreciation for the Mateel Community Center and all it has, does, and will do for the community’ may be helpful too!).
Plus. Many businesses (and individuals) are in debt (for their house, rent, overhead, business, cars, school, etc.), yet they pay employees because their plan to make money involves human labor/ help. So, that is nothing new.
If you are concerned that the MCC is not spending its money wisely, consider joining the board, or going to Board meetings to ask related questions.

Redway Volunteer
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Redway Volunteer
2 years ago

The ad appears that they are taking the responsibilities of the board and packing them all into one job description for an employee who may or may not be compensated depending on their discretion to to so.

Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago

Thank you Mateel! While these jobs will help the organization get out of debt and back into offering more community service, they are also opportunities for people in the community who have lost their cannabis jobs to begin to use or acquire new skills, and to build a (more diverse) resume!

I like stars
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I like stars
2 years ago
Reply to  Whole Mateel

Did they ever figure out where all that money went?

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

Away…Like magic…Poof!!!

I like stars
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I like stars
2 years ago
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Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

I don’t have access to those figures, but yes, I would imagine they do (at least in general). Some expenses were certainly well placed. Other expenses were not wise.
The main problem as far as I know, is that some people were not seeing the forest for the trees. Like has happened over and over and over in the entertainment industry, some people likely thought the (income) money would never end.

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
Reply to  Whole Mateel

So whom do you blame, the community or the MCC Board?

Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

To answer your question: I am not concerned with “blame” now. My concern is helping a valuable organization move forward.
You love to blame people Ed. Just remember, when one finger points at ‘the accused’ 3 more are pointing back at you!

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
Reply to  Whole Mateel

You mean, when one finger and a thumb points at ‘the accused’, right?

How do you consider the MCC a “valuable organization” when they did lie, cheat and steal a very large amount of money from a public benefit and charity organization, with no disregard, remorse or accountability to the community?

After all you did state above, “The main problem as far as I know, is that some people were not seeing the forest for the trees. Like has happened over and over and over in the entertainment industry, some people likely thought the (income) money would never end”

If you are not concerned about blame, do you expect accountability and fiscal responsibility in a 501c3 tax exempt public benefit corporation? Because what’s to keep it from repeating itself?

How do you explain that the MCC is listed as ‘Delinquent’ with the state as a public benefit and charitable organization?

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago

Let’s see, a (very) part-time job, trying to operate and clean-up the whole damn operation…

“File all that old stuff, sweep the floor, take out the trash, try to find the money to pay the employee taxes, promote the next show, OH, and, remember to conserve our resources by not demanding a “living wage” or “benefits”…

And, Whole Mateel, just how do you propose to pay anybody anything at all…?

The Mateel has been bust, and for years, ever since the funds collected at the last “Massive Drug Party on the River” simply disappeared! It’s always interesting to me that this NPO, apparently operated outside the legal requirements for being an NPO, still exists at all!

They sold off the only part of the business that made any money, to a bunch of stoners too inept to operate the magazine they used to own, much less a “rock concert”! Nice move, in a tight place… Too bad you lost the show as well as the money it provided…

Then they brought in a bunch more “board members”, and made a lot of excuses about just “what went wrong”… Employees went unpaid, employment taxes went unpaid, and it is amazing that the Mateel exists in any form at all, here in April 2021!

My main question:

Why would anyone take this job, at all?

Southern Humboldt Public Agencies and NPO’s have TERRIBLE reputations, and long histories of abusing employees, promoting leaders who are incompetent, corrupt and dishonest… Just have a quick look at SHCHD, the private land grab known as the “Southern Humboldt Community Park”, KMUD, and, the “Mateel Community Center”…

Be careful, taking a job at one of these places, watch as the private interests of few take precedence over the mission of “serving the public”, and, watch the money, where it goes, who takes it, and what is done with it…

Back-room deals aside, there is a remarkable “club” of well-heeled locals who always appear in these agencies, and there is a solid, impenetrable wall around their operations, a wall very few see behind…

Lift the curtain, Mateel, and for apologists like “Whole Mateel”, your message is tired, and the Mateel is getting tiresome… Fix it or let it die, but quit trying to sell it as “beneficial to the community”…

Whole Mateel
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Whole Mateel
2 years ago
Reply to  VMG

Gee VMG. Sucks to have that negative attitude. To carry all that anger and distain.

‘How to pay people?’ – I leave that to the Board. (See below).

‘The MCC sold off their cash cow’. – Yep. Had too. Bad decisions made needed to be offset and paid off as best they could. Consider this: After all the handwringing that ‘the Mateel would close soon!’, the Board has made good decisions to keep it viable. If it weren’t for the pandemic, it would be paying down the debt (the Summer Arts Fair did quite well) and serving the community well.

And. I invite you to look uptake difference between an “apologist” and supporter who has a positive attitude.

The Board is open. No backroom deals any more. If you want it to ‘die’, I suggest you just disengage, or become part of the solution (‘fix it’), one way or another!
PS: What, in your mind, does “fix it” mean???

Former Contributor
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Former Contributor
2 years ago
Reply to  Whole Mateel

Fixing would constitute a forensic 3rd party audit to begin to understand what happen. A good place to start would be asking how their year one operational budget for Reggae on the River ran $350,000 over without asking that question first. Secondly followed by a forensic audit to start piecing the puzzle together. Unfortunately that did not happen and the same people continue to operate the business without oversight. Quite sad since it had been successfully managed all of those years under People’s Production only to fail.

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Whole Mateel

While I do like the idea of a “forensic audit”, I don’t like the idea of a “private club”…

You folks won’t let this thing end, but the focus on Membership and Money is silly.

The Mateel should be a service organization. If you want to have shows, fine! If you want to hold dinners, fine! If you want to feed the street people, I find the mission appropriate!

Like SHCHD, it should be supported by donors and volunteers, grants and income from events…

You know how to do this, so be brave, and do it!

The upcoming Craft show/Spring Festival will be the test. Charging a membership fee/Gate/Parking etc, might just be successful. It’s too expensive for my tastes, and, as a crafter, much too high a cost, for the amount of work a display would entail… In the past, you charged common crafters $250 to display, and set the requirements and rules far too high… Lots of other shows, farmers markets etc, most of which do not charge admission…

Maybe a craft fair once a month, with no charge for admission or display…

The problem with the Mateel is that it’s always trying to raise money, behind a poor reputation for handling money! How do we fix this? I sure don’t know… Try serving the community with humility, circumspection and an honest NPO approach!

Best of luck going forward, but I would never attend a “Smoke-off/Weed party” and I have little respect for activities of this kind. As for “Reggae on the River”, well, I worked at the Hospital. Redway needs fewer drug parties, not more. Enough said.

Your ability to remain all Pollyanna is remarkable. As they say at AA, hang in there!

Namaste, Whole Mateel, be safe, be well…