Community Organizing Project Director - Build power to fight the oligarchy!

About ACCE:

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is dedicated to raising the voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, so that current and future generations have the ability to live in stronger communities and have access to expanded opportunities.

ACCE is a statewide community organization working with thousands of members across the state to create transformative change by helping ordinary citizens to organize and take action. Some of ACCE’s priority program areas include:

• Defending vital services by reforming California’s broken fiscal system
• Giving our children the opportunity to succeed through sound education reform
• Fighting for affordable and secure housing by holding banks and corporations accountable for their bad business practices; and
• Improving access to health care

Please note that ACCE does not provide community services. Rather, we work directly in neighborhoods with local residents to advocate for the change they want to see in their communities.

About the Position: Help develop and lead a mass organizing project, working closely with ACCE’s campaign director. This project aims to bring in a large, new statewide base of members who are ready to get involved in issue campaigns, as well as the fight against the growing control of our political and economic systems by the billionaire class. Through meetings, political education and organizer training, activists and leaders will be developed who both advance the campaigns and help to further grow the base.

The lists of Key Duties and Responsibilities below are not all-encompassing of job responsibilities related to each position. Occasionally, you may be asked to perform additional duties as directed by your supervisor.

Location: All ACCE staff work 4 out of 5 days a week out of one of our 5 regional offices - Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Oakland or Richmond

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Management of ACCE’s statewide, at-large, outreach, organizing and mobilizing project
• Collaboration with other ACCE staff interacting with this project - Data, Communications, other
• Supervision of the staff assigned to this project
• Develop and oversee the implementation of a “ladder of engagement” and a monthly campaign calendar for this base
• Oversee creation and implementation of email / text / digital elements of the campaigns
• Lead a volunteer member training program that grows the number of members organizing in their own communities

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8-years community or labor organizing experience
• Experience in staff management
• Experience developing leaders to take on substantial organizing responsibilities
• Experience developing and running large, multi-month, strategic campaigns
• Excellent project management skills, results focused, and well organized.
• Strong understanding of issues facing low-income BIPOC and immigrant communities
• Ability to work well with diverse groups and populations
• Able to work independently and drive projects and programs to completion in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Familiarity with, and comfortability working with: GoogleSheets, CRM’s, online campaign tools and social media admin panels
• Excellent communication skills.