Employment Opportunities

Current Job Openings:

No employment opportunities are currently open for applications. We expect more to open soon. If you would like to be notified when Alchemist posts a new job opening, please sign up for job notifications.

As a 501(c)3 organization, Alchemist CDC is qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Note about our hiring process: All applications received will be redacted to remove the identity of the applicant before being forwarded to the hiring manager for their initial review. This step helps us to reduce the impact of implicit bias in the hiring process, as well as preventing favoritism toward applicants who may be known to the organization or hiring manager prior to submitting their application.

Pay Transparency:

We are committed to ethical hiring and compensation practices, including accurately listing compensation rates and ranges. Furthermore, our wages are established for parity across the organization meaning that each position classification is paid within a defined range.

We recognize that some employers post low-ball wages in job descriptions in order to leave room for negotiation. We post the actual wages that we are able to offer for a position because we believe candidates should know what compensation to expect before doing the work of applying for a job. If one of our job postings has a listed range, that range accurately captures the maximum and minimum compensation for the role. If a job posting lists a specific wage and says “non-negotiable”, that is the actual wage that will be offered.

We respect the time of applicants and ask that applicants respect our time as well. If a job description posts a wage that you would not accept for the role, we invite you to wait to apply for a role that does meet your wage requirement as we will not be able to offer a different rate at the time of hiring.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Alchemist CDC is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion among its workforce and our hiring process anonymizes all resumes and Application form responses before making the first level decisions of which applicants to invite to interview, in order to mitigate any implicit/unconscious bias as well as any potential bias concerning applicants who may be previously known to Alchemist staff. Professional references and referrals will be considered only for applicants after they have been selected for further consideration in the anonymized first step.

All applications are reviewed by humans and not by algorithms or AI tools.

Alchemist CDC is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees, job applicants or program service recipients on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, reproductive health decisions, sexual orientation, veteran or family status, traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and hairstyles e.g., braids, locks, twists, and other unspecified hairstyles associated with race, or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws, except where a bona fide occupational qualification applies. This policy extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, recruiting, interviewing, job assignments, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, use of facilities,  participation in Alchemist CDC-sponsored activities, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment

Have questions?

If you have a question about a job posting that isn’t answered in the description, want to follow up on your application, or send over a reference, please contact humanresources@alchemistcdc.org. Please do not contact the hiring manager, as we do our best to keep applicants anonymized for the first round of selection.

Thank you for considering Alchemist CDC. We are always interested in collaborating with students to design customized internships that can assist them in their educational and professional pursuits. 

Alchemist CDC regularly works with college and university students (pre- and post-graduate) to offer them an exciting opportunity to work directly with community members. Students gain hands-on work and service experience, and Alchemist’s projects benefit greatly from the knowledge and enthusiasm of its interns. 

It’s wonderful to see Alchemist volunteers and interns go on to do exciting new things, and it’s safe to say the experience one gains working with us can help build careers in community service. For example, Amy Edmonds, who completed an internship with us, went on to work for the Ecology Center’s Farmers’ Market EBT Program as Program Assistant and is currently an Analyst at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. Other interns have gone on to work for organizations such as an urban gardening non-profit and SHRA. Yet another former intern has served on our board of directors for six years.

Alchemist CDC is also open to crafting an internship position around your academic and career goals, focusing on such skills and programs as: policy change, community outreach and engagement, social justice collaboration, vacant lot revitalization, marketing, evaluations, and social media. Reach out to us at info@alchemistcdc.org.