Childcare Senior Organizer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Primarily Remote with Travel (Requires travel to conservative states)
• Employment Type: 2-Year Flex Position
• Organization: Community Change & Community Change Action

About Community Change and Community Change Action: Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partners, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence on the inside. Our vision of a better world centers around the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on the care economy, economic freedom, state powerbuilding, and immigrant rights. This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and freedom – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another, and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description: As the movement for child care continues to grow and strengthen, we seek a senior organizer to support the work of landscaping new states to add to our partner cohort. This role supports a collaborative project with two other national childcare allied organizations working together to create landscape assessments of the childcare ecosystem in several states. The Childcare Senior Organizer will support state-based organizing groups that want to join the childcare movement and have both a commitment to and orientation for base building. This role will support potential partners in strengthening their organizing infrastructure, focusing on base building, power building, and campaign work through coaching and training. This role will primarily support organizations that are in more conservative states, and travel is required.

Requirements

• Experience in organizing and/or community building
• Strong understanding of grassroots organizing strategies
• Ability to assess organizational strengths and challenges
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel extensively, primarily to conservative states

Responsibilities

• Coaching State-Based Organizing Groups:
  • Assessing the strengths and challenges that the organization faces in their childcare organizing work.
  • Supporting and advising their current campaign(s) strategies and/or development of strategic campaign(s).
  • Supporting partner’s base and power-building efforts related to the childcare movement.
  • Connecting partner organizations to internal Community Change resources or teams (e.g., policy, communications) for strategic campaigns and organizing support.
• Determining Coaching Needs: Identifying the level of coaching needed for each childcare partner, considering their experience and areas for growth.
• Developing Strategic Interventions: Building strategic interventions and plans to support partner organizations in their childcare organizing work.
• Supporting Landscape Assessments: Contributing to the collaborative project with other national childcare allied organizations to create landscape assessments of the childcare ecosystem in several states.

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Company Information

• Organization: Community Change & Community Change Action
• Mission: To build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change.