Principal Responsibilities:
The Senior Organizer's job responsibilities will include:
- Organizing, training and building local or state coalitions with key existing or new partners to build power to reduce poverty, create jobs and fight for economic justice.
- Helping grassroots organizations to develop strategies for building alliances, partnerships, and coalitions with other organizations to enhance their power and to achieve their goals. This may include organizational and strategic development work, fundraising, leadership training, and non-partisan electoral work.
- Collaborating with local, regional, and national organizing partners, organized labor, policy organizations and other grassroots partners to build successful local and state organizations.
- Supporting coordinated national and/or local, state or regional campaigns on specific issues targeting poverty and bringing innovative grassroots strategies such as movement building training, online organizing, electoral organizing, media, research and policy tools designed to help partners maximize the impact of their organizing.
- Training and mentoring both local organizational leaders as well as organizing staff working for CCC.
- This position requires extensive and frequent travel.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of seven to ten years of experience in community organizing, electoral, labor or immigrant rights organizing and work leading campaigns at the local, state or national policy initiatives on poverty issues. A mix of experiences in these arenas is ideal.
- Demonstrated experience in organizational assessment and development; ability to provide significant help in organizational and coalition development.
- Familiarity with and openness to different approaches to grassroots organizing and policy work.
- Strong facilitation and coalition building skills.
- Financial expertise and budget management.
- Ability to work democratically and effectively with diverse groups and people.
- Willing to work long, flexible hours and to travel extensively.
- Experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team and know how to combine assets available to the team in a way that maximizes ability of the team to function at a high level.
- Strong team player, familiar with team dynamics and willing to work in a team environment.
- Strong commitment to social justice and social change.
- Knowledge of key issues that the Center currently works on, such as poverty, criminal justice reform, jobs, economic justice, immigration and/or other issues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills are a must.
- The ability to produce consistent, quality work in a fast-paced environment is essential.
- Ability to speak a second language a plus.
