Organizer, Economic Freedom

Position Overview

• Location Type: Flexible (Chicago, Cook County, and potential other locations)
• Job Type: Full-time, 1-year Flex Position
• Salary: Not specified (Details would be provided upon application)

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 partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation. Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform. This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization.

Requirements

• Combination of highly developed organizing skills
• Administrative skills
• Research ability
• Relational ability
• Familiarity with models of community organizing training
• Experience developing and executing organizing and field plans to move targets
• Great attention to detail for program evaluation and deliverable tracking

Responsibilities

• Organize a base of individuals who are eligible for Guaranteed Income programs in Chicago, Cook County, and other potential target locations.
• Advance Community Change’s overall strategy to build a direct base of impacted persons by regularly conducting to 1:1s and moving identified persons through an engagement ladder.
• Work with grassroots partners to advance local/state policy campaigns that advance wins on critical health equity/economic justice issue priorities with base building/power building and governance implications for the partner and Community Change/Action.
• Coordinate rapid response and cross-team Community Change campaigns to develop state or national strategies, actions, and campaigns as necessary.
• Provide strategic support, broad campaign development, and overall coordination for our organizing work in areas of need across the organization.
• Assist partner organizations to develop strategies for building alliances, partnerships, and coalitions to enhance their power and achieve their goals, including organizational and strategic development work, fundraising, leadership training, and non-partisan electoral work.
• Support and build the organizing and training capacity of impacted persons, existing and new partner organizations to build their power to win changes at the local, state and federal levels.

Application Instructions

• Not specified in the provided text. (Application details would be available through the organization’s website or designated channels.)

Company Information

• Organization: Community Change and 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.
• Focus Areas: Immigrant rights, economic justice, racial equity, jobs, housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.