Relational Organizer for Community Power & Campaigns

actaaco; Maryland; Sur place; USD 60 000 - 88 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

3 weeks paid time off

9 paid holidays

2 floating holidays

Generous retirement contributions

Internet, phone, and meals stipend

Gas mileage reimbursement

Résumé du poste

Maryland Just Power Alliance is seeking an Organizer to build diverse teams of local leaders across Montgomery, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties. You will recruit volunteers, train leaders, and coordinate campaigns addressing housing, health, climate equity, and education to improve communities statewide.

You will work with congregations, schools, and tenant communities, maintaining relationships and training leaders to sustain multi-year campaigns for social change.

Qualifications

• Experience organizing communities through relational meetings.
• Ability to recruit and train volunteers.
• Bilingual abilities (Spanish or other languages) is a strong plus.

Responsabilités

• Hold 15-20 one-to-one relational meetings each week with community members and potential leaders in the congregations, schools and communities to which you are assigned.
• Through relational meetings and small group listening sessions, identify new leaders and community issues.
• Engage leaders in research meetings and power mapping to define campaign strategy.
• Lead meetings with community leaders, elected officials, and business leaders, including doing background research, preparing agendas and strategy with MJPA's leaders.
• Lead campaigns around housing, climate equity, health and other issues while building teams of leaders who are directly impacted by the issues, and other community members who have common concerns.
• Support actions at the county and state level to move targets, including elected officials, corporations and landlords, to act on the issues identified by the community.
• Engage in professional development (training, workshops, reflections).

Connaissances

Initiative

Relational skills

Advocacy

Team mindset

Courage

Vision

Growth mindset

Reflective

Strategic thinking

Public speaking

Spanish

Description du poste

Maryland Just Power Alliance is seeking an Organizer to build diverse teams of local leaders across Montgomery, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties. You will recruit volunteers, train leaders, and coordinate campaigns addressing housing, health, climate equity, and education to improve communities statewide.

You will work with congregations, schools, and tenant communities, maintaining relationships and training leaders to sustain multi-year campaigns for social change.