Resource Generation Midwest Regional Organizer

The ideal candidate is a community organizer with some knowledge/familiarity of the organizing infrastructure in the Midwest region who excels at building relationships with member leaders, is deeply committed to economic and racial justice, is passionate about building the leadership of others, and can excellently manage multiple projects and timelines. This candidate will support our base to move resources to social justice movements and participate in campaigns for systemic 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 an 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.

RG has Midwest Regional chapters in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Ohio Our Midwest regional chapters are interested in developing regional identity, and there is also potential to organize on an at-large basis. The Midwest Regional Organizer will be responsible for maintaining existing chapters and potentially exploring new chapter creation.

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 equitable wealth, land, and power. The broader Resource Generation community includes people of all ages and class backgrounds who support young people with wealth's role in social change. RG has a 20-person staff team and 18 chapters in cities around the U.S. Our chapters engage in base-building, political education programming, running giving circles, engaging in local and national campaigns, and building local organizational relationships.

Location: The candidate must be based in the U.S. and majority reside in CO, IL, IA, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OK, SD, or WI. Travel up to 40 days a year of travel is expected nationally for retreats and conferences and around the region to support chapters. We continue to make necessary adjustments based on COVID risk and employee safety; any PPE or COVID testing related to work travel is reimbursable.

Compensation: This is a full-time position with a starting salary of $69,300-79,300, depending on experience and regional cost of living. Full-time at Resource Generation is 32 hours/week. Benefits include 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance; medical and transit flexible spending account; 403(b) retirement plan and an employer contribution after one year of employment; professional development funds; home office/co-working allowance; and annual paid vacation (15 days), sick leave (15 days), and personal days (5 days).

Job Responsibilities

1. Organize member leaders remotely with in-person chapter visits 1-3 times per year to support the retention of strong chapters and coach member leaders in alignment with Resource Generation collective goals - 50%
2. Organize with regionally based chapters to set annual goals; have a cohesive leadership team; take action and make an external impact; and recruit, retain, and develop new members, with a particular focus on young people of color with wealth and people with high net wealth or high incomes.
3. Support the development of members’ leadership through collective coaching, group meetings, chapter visits, and the development of systems. Effective member leadership development results in building local chapter organizers who can do the day-to-day work of the chapter (recruit new members, build power, collective action, fundraising) without intensive supervision from the staff organizer.
4. Co-design infrastructure in their chapters and regions that can be leveraged in relationships with poor and working class-led organizations towards collective wins. In particular, build the capacity of chapters to participate in national and local issue campaigns.
5. Integrate resource mobilization into day-to-day organizing and overall chapter work. This includes supporting member leaders in developing chapter resource mobilization goals, ensuring our organization moves money into movements, and supporting our collective priorities around resource mobilization. Support the relationship between chapters and local & regional social justice funds. This also involves making effective membership asks and recruiting members to do the same.
6. Assist RG staff with organizing priorities and special projects as needed (work that organizers need to do that is not based on their chapters) - 25%
7. Is responsible for elements of program planning and outreach for our National Retreats - including Making Money Make Change, Transforming Philanthropy, and the RG Organizing Summit
8. Participate in the chapter organizing and leadership development team to collaborate with other regional organizers on developing and leading fundamental skills trainings, key decisions related to our base-building strategy, and implementing creative organizing tactics across chapters in response to an ever-changing landscape.
9. Do transformative fundraising with RG leaders to become dues-paying members, create plans for redistribution, and move money to movements. Manage individual major donor lists and consistently develop members to become major donors, pushing members to give more boldly to movements through our Redistribution Pledge.
10. Contribute to Resource Generation’s collaborative staff leadership structure - 15%
11. Represent the chapter organizing and leadership development team on cross-team decision-making bodies and ad-hoc teams
12. Participate in staff caucuses, political education, staff retreats, our participatory budgeting process, and other team-building & collective decision-making processes.
13. Actively scribe and facilitate scope-related meetings on a rotating basis.
14. Actively offer leadership, strategic thinking, perspective, and analysis of regional chapter work, overall chapter organizing strategy, and tools to support effective organizing during weekly chapter organizing team meetings.
15. Execute routine tracking and administrative responsibilities 10%
16. Responsible for owning the accuracy and regular input of data for assigned chapters and prospective and current members in our EveryAction database.
17. Complete core administrative functions such as uploading and tagging receipts for expenses and filling out timesheets.

Core qualifications and required skills

• Is an organizer. Has demonstrated at least three years of experience (paid or unpaid) in developing leaders, in-person and online facilitation, and mobilizing a base toward collective goals in a mostly remote environment.
• Build and sustain relationships across differences. Ability to move effectively through conflict and principled struggle. Collective-oriented. Skills in working and building trust with a wide range of people across class, race, gender, etc. Willingness to give and receive feedback.
• Self-directed and able to work remotely. Persistent, creative, and solutions-oriented. Can work plan effectively to meet goals, communicate in a timely and responsive way, and spend many hours a day on video calls and on a computer. Able to manage flexible hours, with some evening and weekend work.
• Desire to do transformative organizing of a multiracial base of young wealthy people. Has a demonstrated commitment to racial and economic justice. Believes in the stake young wealthy folks have in collective liberation and the possibility and necessity of cross-class and multiracial movement building.

Our ideal candidate would also have some of the qualifications below, though these are not required criteria for the position:

• A basic understanding of class, classism, and one's own class identity
• Familiarity with organizing in their region and existing relationships with local and regional grassroots organizations
• Experience working on issue-based campaigns
• Experience doing grassroots and major donor fundraising
• Familiarity with healing justice; commitment to own transformation & healing from oppressive systems
• Some fluency in digital tools such as Google Suite, Zoom, organizing databases/VAN/CRMs, Slack, Hustle, etc.

A college degree is not a required qualification for this position.

If reasonable accommodations are needed, please contact us through Bamboo HR.

Further Information: RG is hosting an open house for applicants for this position and any other roles to come! It’s on Tues, Aug 12 from 5:00-6:30pm ET. Register here! The open house will support applicants to understand RG and our organizational culture better.

How to apply: Submit your resume and answers to our application questions through Bamboo HR by Monday, August 18 at 11:59 pm ET. RG organizes young people with wealth, and the RG staff is currently a cross-class and multi-racial team. We especially encourage those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color; trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people; and people from poor and working-class backgrounds to apply.

Notes about your application:

• We will not be reading cover letters. Please only submit a 1-page resume. We will not read more than 1 page.
• We are asking that you refrain from using AI tools to write your answers.

Application Questions:

• Why do you want to organize young people with wealth? Share from your own personal experience in under 100 words.
• Share about a time when you felt proud of your role in developing someone’s leadership in an organizing setting in under 100 words.
• At Resource Generation, we see the regional organizer role as supporting local chapters to grow and develop the leadership of their membership base. This could look like developing chapter-wide goals, basebuilding plans or campaign plans. Share about a time when you worked in a group in a community organizing setting to set goals together and how you were able to make progress on one of your group’s goals in under 250 words.

Tentative Timeline - with limited subject to change:

• August 25, 2025 - Job posting closes
• Sept 8-11 - First Round Interviews
• Sept 22-25 - Second Round Interviews
• Oct 3 - Offer Letter Extended
• Oct 20 - Tentative Start Date