ALIGN: the Alliance for a Greater New York unites labor and community for a more just and sustainable New York. Formed by the merger of New York Jobs with Justice and Urban Agenda, ALIGN builds upon 20 years of creating good jobs, healthy communities, and a more accountable democracy for all New Yorkers. Successes include the “Trades and Residents for Apprenticeship Development and Economic Success” (TRADES) project, which has created over 300 careers in construction for local public housing residents through New York City Public Housing Authority capital repairs; securing one of the nation’s first municipal green buildings policies, which has eliminated over 200,000 metric tons of harmful greenhouse gas emissions; and anchoring the Alliance for a Just Rebuilding and achieving a the Build it Back local hiring program in Sandy-impacted communities. For more information about our work, visit www.alignny.org.
We seek a talented, motivated, and dedicated senior Field Coordinator to join our staff team. This is an exciting time to join our team and be engaged in building an ambitious organization at the forefront of innovative movement building efforts in New York.
Position Description & Responsibilities: The Field Coordinator will report to the Organizing Director and is responsible for:
• Mass Base Field Campaign Strategy: Leading the development of local organizing efforts which will involve extensive field campaign visioning, planning and strategy development done in conjunction with allies and internal policy and communications teams situated at the intersection of climate, race and the economy. The primary focus will be on guiding an emerging “New York Rising” coalition bringing together community and labor partners to implement a mass engagement strategy to develop a broad base of currently unengaged young people and people of color to support policy and issue campaigns.
• Mass Base Field Campaign Development & Implementation: Voter/constituent universe targeting and cutting turf for field (phone & door-to-door) campaigns through Voter Activation Network (VAN). Development and tracking in VAN of a leadership development ladder to increase consistent engagement of mass base.
• Alliance-Building: Strengthening and growing our Mass Engagement Strategy through our “New York Rising” coalition Leadership Team and our longstanding alliance through broad- based institutional and individual relationship-building and maintenance.
• Organizational Development & Leadership: Engaging actively as a member of the staff team by contributing to organizational vision, strategic planning, fundraising, and staff development as well as being a representative for the organization in the NYC movement, within our longstanding alliance and amongst national networks.
Qualifications: A commitment to social, economic and racial justice and the labor movement; Minimum 3 years of experience in a staff position within a community organization and/or labor union; Has strong relationships with and knowledge of economic justice, environmental justice and labor organizations; Knows the New York political landscape and communities; Highly developed racial justice analysis; Ability to independently manage projects from conception to completion, particularly to coordinate direct outreach field campaigns through the Voter Activation Network (VAN), and work as part of a team; Minimum 3 years experience managing civic engagement style field campaigns and a high level of expertise in VAN; Excellent organizational, writing and communication skills; Ability to multi-task and work in a deadline driven environment; Willingness and ability to produce significant impacts however necessary; Ability to work independently.
Terms of Employment: Field Coordinator is a full-time position with health, retirement, vacation, and other benefits. These terms, and others relevant to your employment, are spelled out in the ALIGN Personnel Policy that is available upon request.
Application Process: This position is available immediately. E-mail cover letter and resume to employment@alignny.org. Please put “Field Coordinator” in the subject line of the email. No phone calls please. Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements will not receive a response.
ALIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, LGBT and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
