TCADP Harris County Field Organizer

The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) is a statewide grassroots advocacy organization dedicated solely to ending the death penalty in Texas. We seek a motivated and experienced Field Organizer to advance our mission in Harris County through membership engagement, public education initiatives, fundraising, program development, coalition building, outreach to key constituencies, and advocacy campaigns.

The position, based in the Greater Houston area, will require availability on some evenings and weekends as well as the ability to travel to Austin as needed.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a background in organizing, public policy, campaign work, or issue-based advocacy in Texas. The Harris County Field Organizer will build on TCADP’s impact on changing the death penalty landscape in Texas over the past 25 years and will work with a diverse array of individuals who are dedicated to the cause of ending the death penalty.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

• Strong personal commitment to abolishing the death penalty in Texas and addressing systemic racism in the criminal legal system.
• At least five years’ experience with community organizing, issue-based advocacy, campaign work, or relevant non-profit experience in Texas. This can include experience in any of the following areas:
• Connecting and collaborating with organizations designed to reform the criminal legal system or organizations designed to fight for racial justice.
• Working with a variety of constituencies, particularly faith communities or civic/political groups, community leaders, and people from diverse racial, ethnic, spiritual, and socioeconomic backgrounds to advance a campaign or change public policy.
• Working with communities of color and/or organizations that represent people of color and system-impacted individuals.
• Working on electoral campaigns, at the state legislature, or with local government.
• Event planning, including trainings, conferences and webinars, and public education events.
• Managing volunteers and engaging grassroots members.
• Fundraising, including grant writing and major donor outreach.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; fluency in speaking and writing Spanish is a plus.
• Knowledge and understanding of Texas’s political landscape.
• Strategic thinker; flexible and tenacious; creative and entrepreneurial.
• Self-motivated and able to work with a team.
• Ability to manage details, initiate projects, resolve problems, and follow through on assigned tasks with minimal direct supervision.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Engage key constituencies (political and civic groups, faith leaders, conservatives, law enforcement, surviving family members of murder victims, and communities of color) to reduce use of the death penalty in Harris County.
• Develop relationships and partnerships with local organizations engaged in criminal justice reform.
• Forge alliances with community, civic, and religious groups and participate in local coalitions focused on racial and social justice.
• Arrange meetings with key stakeholders and decision makers at the local level to communicate concerns about the death penalty and cultivate support for abolition.
• Represent TCADP in public speaking engagements.
• Build TCADP’s capacity by engaging members and fostering local grassroots leaders.
• Work with the Executive Director to design and implement legislative and other advocacy campaigns.
• Participate in fundraising and development activities, including meeting with donors and cultivating new members.
• Produce resource materials, social media and website content, press releases and media pieces, newsletters and action alerts, etc.
• Design and implement programs and evaluate progress in meeting the objectives set forth by the TCADP strategic plan.

Benefits include a subsidy for health insurance, plus a generous PTO package

English; fluency in speaking and writing Spanish is a plus.