The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) works to improve wages and working conditions for restaurant workers nationwide. Initially founded in New York City after September 11, 2001 to provide support to restaurant workers displaced as a result of the World Trade Center tragedy, ROC United has grown into a national restaurant workers’ organization with close to 130,000 restaurant worker, employer, and consumer members working together to realize a vision of a food system that includes sustainable wages and working conditions for the people who cook, prepare, and serve our food. We currently have chapter offices in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Minnesota, Boston, Chicago, Michigan, New Orleans, Pennsylvania, Seattle, Mississippi and Washington, DC. ROC United combines worker, consumer, and employer advocacy, workplace justice campaigns, award-winning job training, and innovative research all together to improve conditions for low-wage restaurant workers.
General Job Description:
This leadership role will partner with the Executive Staff, Board of Directors, and Chapter Directors to achieve ROC United’s overall mission by spearheading collaborative, organization-wide strategies to meet aggressive annual and long term fund development goals. The Development Director will lead the Development Department as ROC United significantly expands our culture and systems to empower a shift towards individual donor/consumer member cultivation while stewarding long-term foundation partners and new foundation prospects.
The ideal candidate will be a seasoned development professional/community organizer with outstanding writing, editing, and interpersonal skills, who can provide strong and innovative leadership to create opportunities and develop long-term relationships with individuals, foundations, and more. They will have experience in strategic framing and messaging to reach and engage diverse audiences.
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