Western Chapter Organizer (RG)

EPIP; Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle (CO, CA, CA, WA); Remote; USD 51,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A national non-profit organization is seeking a full-time Western Organizer to lead its chapters in Seattle, Bay Area, Portland, Los Angeles, and Denver. This role focuses on building strong chapters aligned with social justice movements and requires at least 2 years of community organizing experience. The position offers a starting salary of $51,000 - $54,000 with comprehensive benefits and encourages applications from people of color and those from lower-income backgrounds.

Benefits

90% employer paid health, vision, and dental insurance

403(b) retirement plan

Medical and transit flexible spending accounts

Annual paid vacation and sick leave

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of experience in community organizing.
• Demonstrated commitment to economic and racial justice.
• Basic understanding of class, classism, and your own class identity.

Responsibilities

• Organize regional chapters and set annual goals.
• Build power in chapters with local organizations.
• Integrate fundraising into daily organizing.

Skills

Community organizing experience

Relationship-building

Project management

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of class and classism

Commitment to economic and racial justice

Job description

Resource Generation is recruiting for a full-time Western Organizer who will organize our Seattle, Bay Area, Portland, Los Angeles, and Denver chapters. This role will report to the Chapter Organizing Director.

The ideal candidate is a passionate community organizer who excels at building relationships with member leaders, is deeply committed to economic and racial justice, is passionate about transformative fundraising, and who can excellently manage multiple projects and timelines. This candidate will generate excitement and commitment from our base to move resources to social justice movements and participate in campaigns for change.

The success of a chapter organizer is measured by the strength of our chapters. A strong chapter has a cohesive leadership team, takes action and makes external impact, and recruits, retains, and develops new members with a particular focus on building our base of young people of color with wealth, anti-racist and anti-classist leadership development with our multiracial base, and building our base of young people with family foundations and who are high net wealth.

Resource Generation is a national non-profit organization mobilizing young people (age 18-35) with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.

Job Responsibilities

Building strong chapters and member leaders aligned with national goals - 75%:

• Organize 5 regionally based chapters to set annual goals, have a cohesive leadership team, take action and make external impact, and recruit, retain, and develop new members with a particular focus on young people of color with wealth, family philanthropy and high net wealth.
• Builds power in their chapters and region, in relationship with poor and working class-led organizations, that can be leveraged toward collective wins.
• Integrate resource mobilization into chapter work and goals, making sure our organizing is moving more money into movements and supporting our national priorities around resource mobilization.
• Integrate fundraising into day to day organizing, making effective member asks and recruiting members to do the same.
• Support the development of members’ leadership through one-on-one coaching, group meetings, chapter visits and skills trainings.

Support national organizing priorities - 15%:

• Is responsible for elements of program planning and outreach for our National Retreats.
• Responsible for meeting individual fundraising goal.
• Responsible for owning the accuracy and regular input of data for assigned chapters and donors, as well as core administrative functions.

Support chapter or national organizing special projects as needed - 10%:

• As needed, provide support with assigned special projects that serve RG’s larger organizing goals.

Core Qualifications and Required Skills

• At least 2+ years of experience in community organizing.
• Relationship-building skills with a wide range of people.
• Results-oriented: someone who gets it done, who is persistent, creative, and solutions-oriented.
• Project management: Meets deadlines, knows how to manage and balance multiple tasks and projects.
• Team-player: Keeps what’s best for the whole in mind and action.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate in a timely manner in a remote work environment.

• A basic understanding of class, classism, and your own class identity.
• Demonstrated commitment to economic and racial justice.
• Belief in the importance of organizing young people with wealth to become leaders in movements for justice.
• Familiarity with organizing in the West and existing relationships with local and regional grassroots organizations.

Location: The candidate must be based in one of the Western chapter cities: Seattle, Bay Area, Portland, Los Angeles, or Denver. Frequent travel required.

Compensation: This is a full-time position with a starting salary of $51,000 - $54,000 depending on experience. Benefits include 90% employer paid health, vision, and dental insurance, 403(b) retirement plan and an employer contribution after one year of employment, medical and transit flexible spending account, and annual paid vacation, sick leave, and personal days.

How to apply: Send a resume and cover letter as one single PDF file and e-mail it to [e-mail] by Sunday, August 5, 2018, with Western Chapter Organizer in the subject line. RG organizes young people with wealth and the RG staff is currently a cross-class and multi-racial team. We especially encourage people of color and people from poor and working class backgrounds to apply.