Membership Director

INTRODUCTION

Northeast Kingdom Organizing (NEKO) is joyfully seeking a Membership Director + organizer with the courage and skills to bring deep listening, relationships, and NEKO’s values to expand, retain, and train our membership base.

NEKO is in the process of exploring a shared leadership model. We’re committed to staying in this work for the long haul and transforming extractive, white-supremacist, and capitalist work ethics into cooperative, supported, and sane workloads. We are looking to hire a candidate who may be interested in working toward co-leadership of our organization.

ABOUT NEKO

NEKO is a multi-issue, member-led, coalition of individuals, families, faith and community-based organizations that come together to organize and advocate for justice for the people and the places of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. We do this by embracing the concepts and practices of community organizing and centering the voices of NEK residents often ignored in decisions about their communities.

We practice a three-stage theory of change:

1) We use popular education tools like storytelling to center the voices of NEK residents impacted by injustice.

2) We build relationships for political power and a Just Transition of the Northeast Kingdom.

3) We organize, analyze power, and take action together to fight for equity for all people.

MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR + ORGANIZER

Responsibilities and Tasks:

Membership

• Identify and reach out to existing and potential organizations and individual members.
• Develop ways to recruit members at tabling events.
• Organizing leadership development training to skill up members and engage leaders in our campaigns, caucuses, and committees.
• Use 1:1s to connect with members and community members.
• Lead Membership Assemblies – outreach, event, planning, follow through.
• Write and manage communications for new members and donors.

Finances

• Support development of the annual budget.
• Identify and coordinate grant writing with co-directors.
• Collect and manage data, numbers, and narrative collection for grant reports.

Communication

• Design flyers and posters for outreach and events using Canva
• Make follow-up phone calls and send emails to community members about events

Organizing + Campaigns

• Collaborate with Lead Organizer on NEKO Campaigns
• Convene membership committee meetings
• Uplift community leaders to take on roles and tasks within the Campaigns
• Go door-to-door to talk about campaigns and gain interest and support in NEK communities

DETAILS

Full-time: 32-40 hours/week at $56-$62k annually DOE

Position and wage review will happen after 6 months.

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• 5 weeks CTO annually
• Professional development and continued mentoring
• 4-week paid sabbatical after 2 years

Schedule:

Flexible, Monday through Friday, occasional nights and weekends

Work Location:

Work may be performed from a variety of locations including: home based (remote), public/community settings, residential homes, by phone, in and around Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

APPLICATION

To apply, please submit the following to Lead Organizer, Meghan Wayland by emailing meghan@nekorganizing.org or mail to: P.O. Box 1351, Newport, Vermont 05855 by Tuesday, July 1, at 5pm.

1. A resume, CV, or list of most recent work/volunteer/organizing experience
2. A work sample that embodies your past or current work. This can be submitted as a description, a link to social media, gofundme, organizing platform, website, photos, art, strategic plan, etc.
3. Questions

Please address just 2-3 of the questions below. Responses to questions can be submitted in a combination of writing, video, and/or voice recording – whichever helps you get your ideas across in a way that works for you and helps us get to know you better.

• What needs to change? What do you want to build?
• What gifts and skills do you bring to this work?
• What’s your experience with community organizing and centering the voices of people impacted by issues?
• What draws you to work with NEKO?

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