Florida Community Organizer

Summary

MHAction empowers homeowners and residents in manufactured home communities to build and win local, state, and national issue campaigns that strengthen the long-term viability and affordability of their communities and build progressive power in rural and exurban areas and small cities across the country. The work of MHAction is based on a set of shared values – compassion for our neighbors, love of our communities, and our belief that everyone has a right to decent, affordable place to call home in a healthy community. Core to MHAction’s work is uniting and organizing people across class, race, religion, age, citizenship status, sexual orientation, and gender to fight back and prioritize the needs of communities that have been historically marginalized.

MHAction’s Florida Community Organizer is responsible for recruiting, coaching, and developing manufactured home leaders through online and offline organizing strategies, building issue campaigns, managing key organizational relationships with local and state-level racial and economic justice allied organizations, and meeting grassroots fundraising goals. The Organizer will undertake these activities with 4 to 5 local leadership teams in Florida in consultation with MHAction’s National Core Leadership Team and MHAction’s Executive Director. She/he/they will coordinate their work with the organization’s online to offline organizing, training, and communications strategies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identifying, recruiting, and developing 4 to 5 local leadership teams to participate in MHAction’s campaigns.
• Facilitating MHAction’s Leadership Cross Train (LCT) Program. MHAction’s LCT Program involves local leadership teams visiting ‘host’ communities and is designed to grow the organization’s reach and power.
• Mobilizing manufactured home residents to lead and participate in housing justice campaign activities and activate community leaders on key racial, social, and economic justice campaigns that have been prioritized by the organization.
• Meeting membership dues/grassroots fundraising goals to ensure that MHAction has the resources necessary to carry out programmatic activities.
• Working with MHAction’s online organizing tools (primarily Facebook, MHAction’s Action Network Platform, Strive Text Tool, and Twitter) to recruit and mobilize local leadership teams.
• Maintaining and updating various campaign lists and data systems.
• Working fluidly with MHAction’s staff and MHAction’s National Leadership Core Team in all aspects of the work of the organization.
• Attending and preparing for weekly staff team meetings. Staff members are expected to actively collaborate and participate in a remote staff team environment. This includes the following: attending and preparing for weekly video staff team meetings and in-person retreats, communicating regularly with other staff members on shared strategies and workplans, and keeping individual workplans and scheduling up to date by utilizing the organization’s online planning tools.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Attending MHAction National Core Leadership Team conference calls and meetings;
• Overseeing the logistical plans related to leadership trainings and campaign actions and activities;
• Representing MHAction at select local and state convenings held by allied organizations.

Education and/or Experience

• A minimum of 1 to 2 years paid or volunteer work experience managing social, economic and racial justice campaigns in the non-profit community organizing sector;
• A minimum of 1 to 2 years paid or volunteer work experience working with volunteer community leaders to build local, state and national issue-based campaigns on housing issues.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of housing justice campaigns related to the establishment and protection of affordable and accessible multi-family and/or manufacturing housing communities;
• Ability to effectively manage and work with volunteer community leaders;
• Familiarity with the overall non-profit community organizing sector;
• Strong writing skills needed to craft and submit online communications and research memos;
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence and effective listening skills in order to effectively inspire and motivate volunteer leaders to participate in gender, social, economic and racial justice campaigns;
• Able to work independently and also collaboratively with other MHAction staff and coalition partners;
• Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) communication skills preferred.

Organizational Relationship

The Community Organizer reports directly to MHAction Executive Director.

Physical Demands

Must be able to travel at a minimum 25% of the time to local communities in order to directly visit and assist in guiding the work of local leadership teams involved with MHAction. Travel also includes attending meetings and gatherings of key MHAction ally organizations. This involves travel by airplane and other means of transportation.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position. Given the nature of MHAction’s work and organizational model, staff work remotely, generally out of their homes, except when traveling for work. The position does require occasional work on weekends (Saturday and Sunday).

MHAction, a project of Tides Center, is an “at-will” and equal opportunity employer. Applicants and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression) identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.

MHAction, a project of the Tides Center, offers comprehensive benefits.

Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) communication skills preferred.