Senior Organizer, Care Economy

Smart Justice California; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in California is seeking a Senior Organizer to advance health equity initiatives and develop community partnerships. This full-time role involves significant fieldwork, leadership development, and strategic planning, requiring a candidate with robust organizing experience and a commitment to social justice.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years experience in community organizing or related fields.
• Experience with organizational assessment and development.
• Ability to work democratically with diverse groups.

Responsibilities

• Advance Health Equity program goals with partners.
• Manage a portfolio of Health Equity partners.
• Coordinate campaigns and build grassroots leadership.

Skills

Organizing Skills

Leadership Development

Relational Capacity

Communication Skills

Strategic Planning

Tools

Google Workspace

Salesforce

Job description

This is a full-time position that 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 is a necessary component of this role, and travel is required.

A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

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, the Senior Organizer will 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 to 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 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 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.

• 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; ability to provide significant support in organizational and coalition development and create a sense of community among disparate organizations and leaders towards a common purpose.
• Strong facilitation and training skills.
• Relational capacity; ability to work democratically and effectively with diverse groups and people.
• Strong team player, familiar with team dynamics and willing to work in a team environment; experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team.
• Strong commitment to racial, gender justice and social change.
• Knowledge of key issues that our organization currently works on, such as poverty, criminal justice reform, jobs, care economy, immigration and/or other issues.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to produce consistent, quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work at a macro level, keeping in mind the broader vision, while also attending to operational details.
• Adaptive work style that includes taking initiative and working independently and also a willingness to meet expectations and deadlines set by others such as a supervisor or team leader.
• Capacity and willingness to work some flexible hours and to travel.
• Demonstrated ability to conceive and execute creative, breakthrough strategic initiatives to achieve goals.
• Comfortable using cloud-based technology including Google Workspace and dynamic databases like Salesforce.
• The ability to speak a language used by key constituents is a plus.