Protect & Build Campaign Organizer (CO, GA, LA, MI, NC)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid
• Job Type: Contract (1 year)
• Salary: Not specified

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. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.

This is a full-time contract position focused on advancing Community Change and Community Change Action’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign and State Powerbuilding Strategy. The Protect & Build Organizer will be a key part of a peer team of organizers responsible for base-building, leadership development, campaign planning, and infrastructure development in targeted states (CO, GA, LA, MI, NC). The ideal candidate brings deep experience in powerbuilding with low-income communities across race, gender and ability; is passionate about organizing and is ready to collaborate to build a base of Medicaid recipients and their caregivers. This role requires a strategic, adaptive, and highly relational organizer with a strong campaign orientation. A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in community, electoral, or labor organizing, with a track record in base-building.
• Knowledge: An understanding of Medicaid, SNAP, or other social safety net programs, especially in a political or organizing context.
• Skills:
  • Strong campaign planning skills.
  • Ability to move targets and build coalitions.
  • Integration of organizing with communications and policy advocacy.
  • Demonstrated ability to build relationships and organize people across lines of race, class, and geography.
  • Experience with leadership development and training models rooted in a people-centered approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of Community Change’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign by building and supporting the Medicaid Union.
• Organize impacted individuals through direct outreach, 1:1s, and leadership development to build a durable base and help shift power.
• Support state-based powerbuilding efforts in CO, GA, LA, MI, and NC, integrating long-term organizing, base-building, and campaign strategies across issue areas.
• Work with grassroots partners to execute state/federal campaigns focused on protecting Medicaid/SNAP and building new governing power.
• Contribute to the development and execution of field plans aimed at influencing specific targets in alignment with national campaign goals.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (policy, communications, digital, development) to support campaign messaging, narrative development, and organizing integration.
• Identify and cultivate potential leaders.
• Provide peer support to fellow Organizers; collaborate on shared strategies and rapid response organizing.
• Track progress and report on leadership development, base growth, field metrics, and deliverables.
• Support partner organizations to strengthen their organizing infrastructure and alignment with long-term powerbuilding strategies.

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