Brandworkers is the first and only non-profit organization dedicated to the factory workers behind the soaring local food industry. Our members, mostly immigrant workers of color, are developing a new and innovative form of workplace association to achieve dignified jobs and a just local food system.

Through Brandworkers’ unique leadership development path and member-led campaigns, workers are transforming the local food sector industry-wide and validating the power of organizing from below. Founded in Queens and now with a nine-year track record of learning and award-winning victories, our unchanging belief is that workers themselves have a unique ability and a unique right to lead dramatic change in the economy and in society.

The Candidate:

Do you have conviction for helping our community raise the money that movements need to win? Is a commitment to racial, gender and immigrant justice central to your life?

This positions is for someone who will thrive in a culture defined by accountability to workers and commitment to helping workers win. You challenge the ways things have been done before, think deeply about how the world is changing, speak up with dissenting views, and practice candor always. You have a fine attention to detail, and relish being part of a team working together to get the job done. You love working with communities and being a community builder.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage in creative ideation and strategic planning sessions with Development Coordinator to plan and enhance individual donor giving through new and current individual donor initiatives.
• Assist with facilitating the participation of supporters on a mutual journey with members to a just food system.
• Create and help members create digital content to post on Brandworkers’ social media and homepage.
• Develop and implement best practices to improve donor database record-keeping and research.
• Coordinate volunteer program and vendor relations for Annual Awards Dinner and other fundraising events.
• Contribute as needed to Brandworkers’ foundation fundraising initiatives.
• Lead all administrative activities for all current and new individual fundraising initiatives.
• Process incoming donations, update donor database, and prepare and mail tax acknowledgement letters.
• Assist on Brandworkers’ overall administrative and compliance work.
• Complete diverse assignments that may arise.
• Serve as a full mission leader with an emphasis on delivering department-wide development objectives.

Your Qualifications:

• You have experience in or a demonstrable interest in ally organizing and individual fundraising.
• A specific, proven alignment with working class people, people of color, indigenous people, women, and immigrants is a must.
• You have a genuine desire to help allies take a transformational journey with members and win justice.
• You understand the necessity of resources to win justice struggles and relish the opportunity to help the community generate those resources.
• You are fanatical about communicating clearly in writing and verbally, preferably in English and Spanish.
• You have strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
• You are comfortable using social media as well as MailChimp, WordPress, Asana, and Salesforce, or equivalent software.
• You are comfortable using data and metrics to measure results and learn.
• You own your work, relish feedback, roll-up your sleeves, and enjoy working in accountable teams. You are candid, have conviction for a point of view based on data, and speak up with dissenting views.
• You think big, you take risks, and are not afraid to fail. You actively identify problems to solve and generate new concepts to test.
• You have strong experience in providing administrative support.

How to Apply:

Send your resume and a meaningful cover letter to Brandworkers Development Coordinator, Harvir Kaur at hkaur@brandworkers.org. Salary is highly competitive commensurate with experience, and the position includes fully-paid health care. This is a full-time role based at Brandworkers in Queens.

Brandworkers strongly encourages applications from people of color, women, immigrants, indigenous people, LGBT people, and other traditionally oppressed communities.