Community Organizer - South Sioux City, NE

Job Title: Community Organizer

Position Status: Full-time, salaried, exempt employees

Location: South Sioux City, Nebraska

Position Reports to: Nebraska Organizing Project Staff Director

The Nebraska Organizing Project (NOP) is seeking to hire a community organizer to help build a broad-based community chapter in the South Sioux City, NE area.

Our ideal candidate is rooted in the South Sioux City area and motivated to put in the work to create a community that everyone’s kids can come home to. You are passionate about your community, eager to be in conversation and build relationships with people from all walks of life, excited to learn new things, take risks, and move people to action.

AT NOP:

• We practice the discipline necessary to achieve success and offer flexibility as we understand we are living in unprecedented times;
• We have a proven organizing framework and we recognize the need to adapt and innovate our approach based on the current reality of the communities where we we organize;
• We build shared power and take action to address community issues and needs;
• We respect that every individual brings their own set of values and uniqueness to the work and embrace it!

WHAT YOU’LL DO

You will have the opportunity to bring people together to build a brighter future for your community through a proven approach to community organizing. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Building relationships of trust among people from diverse backgrounds and cultures through 1:1 relational meetings and small group conversations.
• Assessing opportunities to bring people together to build shared power and take action to address community issues and needs.
• Working with an organizing team to provide skill-based training and engaging members and leaders in creating and executing sound organizing plans and strategies.
• Raising grassroots money from a broad base of individuals to support greater financial self-sufficiency.

WHO YOU ARE

• Personal commitment to the principle that, when joined together, people can build the power they need to bring about real solutions to the problems that they face on a daily basis.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Personal commitment to building power and agency with a broad base of people and ensuring fair representation in group decision-making.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and responsibilities.
• Ability for local and regional travel, evening and weekend work assignments, and occasional long hours.
• Bilingual Spanish/English strongly preferred.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Passionate about calling forth leadership in others.
• Experience planning and facilitating meetings, trainings or workshops.
• Knowledge of the South Sioux City area, including its people, culture and economy.
• Commitment to developing and using a support network.
• Ability to think strategically about the complex challenges facing rural communities and how to bring people together to solve them.

WHO WE ARE: NOP is an initiative of and fiscally sponsored by the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC), a network of ten grassroots organizations located in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Montana’s seven Native American reservations, Nebraska, North Dakota, North Dakota’s four Native American reservations, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming with 22,750 members and 38 local chapters. WORC is nationally respected for its 40+ years of winning real change through community organizing, leadership development and training, and voter engagement.

We are building a network of local chapters in Nebraska to address pressing issues that impact rural communities. We work together to build power to transform the world around us through relational meetings and leadership development. Our mutual interest lies in understanding that everyone’s well-being is tied up in each other and community care is vital to sustained growth in rural Nebraska.

WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW: Salary range is $42,000 - $48,000 depending on experience and qualifications. We offer generous benefits including health and dental insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, paid sabbatical program, flex time, and ongoing professional development opportunities.