Advocacy Fellow: Policy & Community Organizing

Center For Employment Opportunities, Inc.; Tulsa (OK); Hybrid; USD 23,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

Center for Employment Opportunities seeks an Advocacy Fellow in Tulsa to support CEO’s Advocacy Leadership Committee and Emerging Leaders Program. The role blends remote work with in-person collaboration at the local CEO office, approximately 2 days weekly.

The Fellow helps develop organizers-in-training, engages with policy campaigns, and contributes to creating a lasting impact on reentry services and community organizing. Duration is about six months, with possible extensions.

Qualifications

• You are looking for short-term, meaningful experience that will take you to the next step in your career.
• You are a natural leader.
• You know how to raise your hand and show up for others when you see a clear need.
• You have a strong desire to change the status quo.
• You are optimistic and passionate about criminal legal reform despite the long road ahead.

Responsibilities

• Convene, facilitate, moderate, and instruct the training sessions for each cohort of CEO’s anchor organizing training program, known as Advocacy Leadership Committee (ALC).
• Assist with planning and coordination of ALC cohorts in assigned locations, helping to recruit members and prepare them for the learning opportunity.
• Assist with preparing and distributing materials to new ALC members in your local CEO office and remotely.
• Support experience and knowledge sharing by recognizing ALC members as experts and champions of change.
• Document engagement activities in writing using Salesforce, Google Sheets or other means as directed by the supervisor.
• Become knowledgeable on CEO’s policy agenda and campaigns.
• Support CEO’s policy agenda by representing the organization in external coalitions or campaigns with external groups, ALC members, and elected officials in partnership with CEO Leadership.
• Conduct trainings on CEO campaigns to raise awareness remotely and in-person.

Job description

Center for Employment Opportunities seeks an Advocacy Fellow in Tulsa to support CEO’s Advocacy Leadership Committee and Emerging Leaders Program. The role blends remote work with in-person collaboration at the local CEO office, approximately 2 days weekly.

The Fellow helps develop organizers-in-training, engages with policy campaigns, and contributes to creating a lasting impact on reentry services and community organizing. Duration is about six months, with possible extensions.