Senior Organizer, Care Economy

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: [Not Specified]

This role requires a combination of highly developed organizing skills, administrative skills, research ability, relational ability, familiarity with models of community organizing training, experience developing and overseeing field plans to move targets, and great attention to detail for program evaluation and deliverable tracking. Additional responsibilities include leadership development, direct base building, and strategic planning with partner organizations and individual leaders. Field work and travel are required. A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, 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.

Principal Responsibilities

• Advancing Health Equity (HE)/Care Economy team’s key program (focus goals and strategies in coordination with EJ/HE and Community Change/Action staff, external partners and allies).
• Manage a portfolio of Health Equity/EJ partners. Through regular check-in and strategic step-back meetings, provide support with communications, policy analysis, leadership development, strategic planning, and campaign and direct action assistance.
• Advance Community Change’s overall strategy to build a direct base of impacted leaders by regularly engaging individuals; conducting 1:1s and moving identified leaders through an engagement ladder.
• Work with grassroots partners to advance local/state policy campaigns that advance wins on critical health equity/care economy 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 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 key existing and new partner organizations to build their power to win changes at the local, state and federal levels.
• Report and track campaign and partner progress.
• Support communications efforts to the field and broader audiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum of seven years of experience in community organizing, electoral, labor or immigrant rights organizing and leading policy campaigns at the local, state or national levels. A mix of experiences in these areas is ideal.
• Experience developing and overseeing field plans to move targets, and great attention to detail for program evaluation and deliverables tracking.
• Understanding and use of research to inform work.
• Demonstrated experience in organizational assessment and development.