Community Organizer

Community Organizer

San Francisco Parents Coalition is seeking a Community Organizer to join our growing team. This role is central to building parent power across San Francisco by developing parent leaders, growing our organizing base, and engaging families in civic action, school board advocacy, and campaigns that impact student outcomes.

This position is highly relational and deeply community-based. A significant portion of this role includes engaging and organizing Spanish-speaking families across San Francisco schools and communities. The role requires consistent in-person outreach, strong follow-through, and ownership of relationships with schools and families over time. The organizer will play a key role in ensuring that families are not only reached but meaningfully engaged, developed into leaders, and connected to advocacy and campaign efforts.

About SF Parent Coalition

San Francisco Parent Coalition centers the needs of children and youth in San Francisco public schools by bringing together a diverse network of parents and caregivers to advocate for a thriving, equitable school system. We work to connect and empower parents across San Francisco by helping families understand the school system, build relationships with decision-makers, and develop the skills to advocate for their children and communities. We believe all students deserve access to excellent, equitable public schools and meaningful opportunities to thrive.

What You’ll Do

Community Organizing, Outreach & School-Based Relationship Management (50–55%)

• Own and manage a portfolio of schools and communities, building strong, trust-based relationships with parents, caregivers, and school communities over time.
• Establish a consistent presence at assigned school sites, including arrival, dismissal, events, and meetings, becoming a trusted and recognizable partner to families.
• Lead proactive, ongoing outreach to identify, engage, and recruit parents into deeper involvement, including:
  • School-based outreach such as tabling, flyering, and informal engagement
  • One-on-one meetings, calls, and follow-ups
  • Community events and partner spaces
• Conduct outreach, relationship-building, meetings, and follow-up with families in both English and Spanish as needed.
• Help ensure organizing materials, events, leadership opportunities, and engagement spaces are accessible and welcoming to Spanish-speaking families.
• Build and maintain a parent engagement pipeline, moving families from initial connection to ongoing participation and leadership opportunities.
• Identify and develop parent leaders, connecting them to meaningful roles within the organization’s work.
• Support the formation and growth of Parent Leadership Teams (PLTs) and other leadership structures as key spaces for engagement, collaboration, and action.
• Facilitate or support regular engagement touchpoints, including one-on-ones, small groups, PLTs, and events that deepen relationships and build leadership over time.
• Ensure strong follow-up systems so that every interaction leads to a clear next step such as a meeting, event, leadership role, or advocacy action.
• Track outreach, engagement, and leadership development to monitor growth, depth of relationships, and movement into leadership roles.
• Partner with school communities to understand needs and challenges, and translate those insights into leadership development and campaign priorities.

This role is responsible for building a strong base of engaged families and developing parent leaders over time, with PLTs as one of several key pathways for leadership and action.

Parent Leadership Development (20–25%)

• Recruit parents into leadership roles and actively move them along a leadership pathway from participant to leader.
• Support and help lead leadership structures, including:
  • Parent Leadership Council (PLC)
  • Parent Leadership Teams (PLTs)
  • Campaign-specific leadership groups
• Coach parents to:
  • Facilitate meetings
  • Share their stories publicly
  • Participate in advocacy and civic action
• Provide ongoing support to ensure parents feel confident and prepared to take on leadership roles.
• Build clear, repeatable pathways that connect outreach and engagement to leadership and action.

Civic Engagement, Campaigns & Advocacy (20–25%)

• Mobilize parents to take action, including:
  • Attending Board of Education meetings
  • Participating in advocacy efforts
  • Engaging in campaign activities
• Support campaign execution, including events, trainings, voter engagement, and issue-based advocacy efforts.
• Recruit and manage parent volunteers for campaign and field activities.
• Help translate parent experiences and school-based insights into campaign priorities and advocacy messaging.
• Ensure parent leaders are actively connected to and shaping campaign work.

Workshops, Trainings & Community Engagement (10%)

• Support planning and execution of workshops and trainings such as advocacy trainings, BOE 101, and Read to Lead connections.
• Lead targeted outreach to drive participation, especially from priority communities.
• Ensure workshops and events serve as entry points into deeper engagement and leadership, not one-time interactions.

How You’ll Do It:

Relationship Owner

You don’t just build relationships. You take ownership of them over time. You are responsible for developing trust with families, staying in consistent contact, and ensuring that relationships deepen rather than remain surface-level. You follow up, remember details, and show families that their engagement matters. Within your assigned schools and communities, you become a reliable, familiar presence whom parents turn to not just for information, but for connection and support. You are comfortable building authentic relationships across cultures and languages, including directly engaging Spanish-speaking families.

Proactive, Community-Based Organizer

You are energized by being out in the community and take the initiative to create opportunities to connect with families. You do not wait for events or direction. You actively identify where families are and show up consistently, whether that is at school pickup, community events, or partner spaces. You are comfortable working evenings and weekends and approach outreach with confidence, warmth, and persistence.

Pipeline Builder

You approach your work with a clear understanding that building parent power requires moving people along a path. You are constantly thinking about where each parent is in their journey, from first interaction to deeper engagement, to leadership, to action. You create the next steps and ensure that no one gets stuck after an initial connection.

Strong Executor with Follow-Through

You are highly reliable and take pride in getting things done. You manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail, and you follow through on commitments to both families and your team. You are organized and ensure that important work does not fall through the cracks.

Data and Impact-Oriented

You track your outreach, one-on-one meetings, and engagement efforts and use that information to improve your approach. You focus not just on activity, but on outcomes such as how many parents are engaged, stepping into leadership, and taking action.

Collaborative Team Player

You work closely with a small, fast-moving team and communicate clearly and consistently. You share updates, flag challenges early, and coordinate with teammates to ensure alignment across outreach, campaigns, and events.

Equity-Driven and Culturally Responsive

You approach your work with respect for the diverse identities and experiences of San Francisco families. You are committed to engaging Latino/x communities in culturally responsive and language-accessible ways, and you ensure all families have meaningful opportunities to engage and lead.

Qualifications & Skills

• 2–4+ years of experience in community organizing, outreach, or related work
• Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively engage Spanish-speaking families, including conducting outreach, meetings, and follow-up in Spanish
• Bilingual Spanish-English skills strongly preferred and highly valued for this role due to the communities served
• Experience working with Latino communities strongly preferred
• Experience engaging school communities strongly preferred
• Experience supporting group-based work such as workshops, teams, or community spaces
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and follow through on details
• Comfort working evenings and weekends as needed for community engagement
• Familiarity with San Francisco communities and/or public education systems is a plus
• Political or campaign experience preferred but not required

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $72,000–$78,000, depending on experience
• Hybrid work environment with three in-office days per week and significant in-person community engagement and school-based organizing
• SF Parent Coalition covers 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums and contributes 50% toward dependent coverage
• Paid holidays, organizational closure periods, and generous PTO

To Apply

Please complete our application form Community Organizer Application

• You will also be asked to send your resume to admin@sfparents.org

We strongly encourage parents, community leaders, bilingual candidates, and individuals with deep ties to San Francisco communities to apply.

• Salary range: $72,000–$78,000, depending on experience
• Hybrid work environment with three in-office days per week and significant in-person community engagement and school-based organizing
• SF Parent Coalition covers 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums and contributes 50% toward dependent coverage
• Paid holidays, organizational closure periods, and PTO

Bilingual Spanish