GA Basebuilding Organizer

Employee Type: Permanent, full time

Reports To: Georgia Organizing Director

Department: Field

Entity: NDWA

Hours per Week: 40

Salary: $73,202-76,546

Work Location: (physical location, or remote working state) Hybrid, Georgia Office

Start Date: Oct 20, 2024

BACKGROUND:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 76 organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (www.domesticworkers.org) organizes domestic workers in the United States for respect, recognition and labor standards. We work to guarantee labor protections for domestic workers by winning legislation at the state level, pushing for regulatory changes at the national level, through the International Labor Organization at the global level, and elevating domestic workers as key leaders in building a powerful movement for social and global justice. NDWA formed in 2007 at the US Social Forum and currently represents 75 local affiliates and chapters, plus thousands of individual workers across the country.

We Dream in Black (WeDIB) is an initiative of the NDWA that organizes Black domestic workers across the diaspora, and builds our capacity to shape a new economy and a new democracy for all of us. WeDIB works with existing member organizations of the NDWA, and initiates new organizing projects in regions that have high concentrations of Black domestic workers. Our existing membership is in Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York. “We Dream in Black” Georgia is hiring an organizer to help expand our Georgia strategy to build a voice for Black domestic workers and care workers in the state. This organizer will have responsibilities to support and grow the membership in GA’s Metro Atlanta region and another potential new site in Southern Georgia.

The overarching goals of our “We Dream in Black” Worker Organizing Program include:

• Grow a network of Black domestic workers who can lead within a movement for a new economy and a new democracy;
• Explore new partnerships that can increase fertile ground for powerful victories for Black women workers;
• Build leadership and increase the skill set of emerging black leaders to uplift and address the issues faced by Black communities.

The Georgia chapter has a staff of 4, and is part of the NDWA Field Team. The We Dream in Black Georgia Organizers are supervised by the GA Organizing Director and will work closely with the other organizing staff, the Georgia Care in Action team, as well as with We Dream in Black staff in other locations

PRIMARY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Base building - 60%
  • Manage an ongoing outreach plan for recruiting new members, and work with the We Dream in Black outreach membership to canvas in the local community, outreach at events and worksites.
  • Conduct regular phone follow-ups, coordinate member-led group phone banking sessions for post-outreach follow-up with new contacts and event turnout with general membership.
  • Identify workers who show potential for deep engagement and work with Organizing Director and Lead Organizer to implement leadership development activities.
  • Coordinate chapter’s outreach & recruitment system, co-facilitate monthly meetings and other membership activities.
  • Conduct membership recruitment presentations, support workers who want to join as NDWA members to register online and make dues payments, and consistently involve workers and supporters in the organization and increase their commitment.
  • Build and cultivate new relationships with community institutions and partners to increase effectiveness of outreach tactics
  • Support managing digital outreach, digital communications, outreach data and event data with our current database systems.
  • Consistently track field work and interactions with new worker contacts as well as with members
  • Track individual progress and contribute to overall chapter goals for recruitment, engagement, and leadership development
• Program and campaign implementation - 40%
  • Work with the Georgia Organizing Director and Lead Organizer, and Base Building Organizers to plan for monthly We Dream in Black meetings, membership programming, and coordinate membership participation in local and national We Dream in Black gatherings and initiatives.
  • Coordinate and activate membership into campaign activities and ensure broad participation from membership in ongoing campaign plans
  • Support overall team efforts to execute outreach for local campaigns, other local worker engagement, and local and national rapid response mobilizations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Highly motivated individual with a passion for engaging communities
• Ability to work some nights and weekends
• 2-3 years organizing experience (either paid or volunteer)
• Strong relational skills and ability to connect, engage, and inspire community members
• Strong and effective communicator
• Intermediate computer skills: (i.e. PowerPoint, Google Suite)
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Hard-working and self-disciplined
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage time efficiently
• Knowledge of issues affecting Black domestic workers nationally and locally

Position requires travel throughout the state of Georgia (mostly concentrated in metro Atlanta) which will require reliable transportation (at least 2 days/week) and occasional national travel

Position requires some evening and some weekend work as needed.

Position Hours: 40 hours per week with a 3-month probationary period