Community Organizer

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• educating community members, elected officials, and other leaders
• hosting, coordinating, and convening events, meetings, and outreach efforts
• recruiting, mentoring, and developing individual faith, political, and organizational leaders as possible participants, representatives, and spokespersons for the movement
• administrative duties, including correspondence and CRM usage
• travel within Pennsylvania, some evening and weekend work

Preferred Abilities, Skills, and Qualifications:

• Sound judgment in controversial and culturally sensitive subjects
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Two + years of community organizing experience
• Managing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging to a diverse array of communities, groups, and settings
• Self-motivation, ability to work well collaboratively, motivate and manage small teams
• Knowledge of grassroots organizing principles, issue advocacy, Pennsylvania politics, and criminal legal system reform
• Direct work with people from diverse racial, ethnic, spiritual, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Fluency in additional languages, mainly Spanish, is desirable but not required.

Start Date

We will accept and review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. We would like the Community Organizer to start as soon as possible.

Compensation

This is a full-time position with an annual salary range of $48,000 - $50,000 annually. In addition, there is a $300. monthly health insurance stipend. PADP is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that strives to foster a supportive work environment. We base employment and other opportunities on individual capabilities and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic established by law.

#NoDeathPenaltyPA is the official campaign to end Pennsylvania’s death penalty. We are working together to pass bills to end it once and for all. We have strong bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature, demonstrating how important repeal is to both sides of the aisle.

Since its reintroduction in 1978, 13 individuals were sentenced to death but were later exonerated. These men spent a combined 182 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. During this same time period, three executions were carried out.

Alexander McClay Williams, a sixteen-year-old Black child, was the youngest person executed in the Commonwealth. An all-white Delaware County jury convicted him of murdering a white woman in 1931, and he was electrocuted without an appeal. A Common Pleas Court judge posthumously vacated his conviction in 2022, 91 years after Williams’s wrongful execution.

The death penalty has proven to be an arbitrary system that convicts and executes innocent people. Its use has been unequal in terms of race and geography, and it is expensive. We can keep our citizens safe and hold individuals accountable for their actions without the death penalty — in fact, it’s what we have already been doing. The last execution carried out in Pennsylvania was in 1999. It’s time for Pennsylvania to move forward and join the people of 23 other states that have already abandoned the death penalty. Pennsylvania remains alone in the northeast as the last holdout with the death penalty.

Governor Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on executions in 2015. Governor Josh Shapiro announced that he would continue the moratorium after his 2023 inauguration. The Governor went a step further, asking the legislature to work with him to put a complete end to the death penalty “once and for all.” Our #NoDeathPenaltyPA campaign unites a broad, robust network to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty in Pennsylvania.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to info@padp.org with “Community Organizer Application” as the subject line.