OVERVIEW

Emerald Cities Cleveland—a collaborative of local government, business, labor, environmental and community organizations—is part of the national 501(c)3 Emerald Cities Collaborative working across the country to advance a sustainable economy and opportunity for all.

Emerald Cities Cleveland promotes clean energy, more efficient use of energy and water, good jobs, union labor, and pathways out of poverty for disadvantaged communities. As a leader in advancing clean, equitable, sustainable development in greater Cleveland, Emerald Cities Cleveland’s past major accomplishments include: Collaborating with partners to launch the Cuyahoga County Sustainability Department and Clean Energy Finance Hub; developing the nationally-recognized RENEW Cuyahoga program to foster energy efficient retrofits of municipal buildings; and, sparking a $1.9 million municipal retrofit for Seven Hills, Ohio.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Management. The Director will serve as primary liaison and facilitator between local partners and the national Emerald Cities Collaborative to promote equitable and sustainable development in the Cleveland area.

• Forge and develop relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders including contractors, and local government, community, environmental and labor leaders.
• Within six months, facilitate collaboration of key local partners, empower them as the new Emerald Cities Cleveland Local Council, and develop a new strategic plan.
• Facilitate meetings, generate useful meeting materials, follow-through on deliverables.

Champion High-Road Economic and Workforce Development Projects and Policies

• Work with the newly empowered local council to identify and promote projects with potential to significantly enhance the environment, create good jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged residents.
• Drive adoption and implementation of best practices and policies for sustainable, equitable development in local government, such as community benefit agreements.
• Monitor, measure and market successes of community benefit policies in place, including as technical support provider for the Cuyahoga County Clean Energy Finance Hub.
• The director will report regularly to local council, and share reports of success with the national Emerald Cities Collaborative.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Commitment and Collaboration. Strong commitment to mission and vision of Emerald Cities Collaborative. Proven ability to work with, and commitment to, unions and disadvantaged communities.  Exceptional relationship-building skills, and collaborative working style.  Public speaking skills.
• Management Abilities.  Strong organization, time management, strategic planning and analytic skills.  Ability to balance competing priorities.  Group convening, facilitation and communication skills with varied stakeholders including business, labor, government officials, and community organizations.  Background or working knowledge of program development, grant writing, fundraising, budgeting, and developing earned revenue streams helpful.
• Knowledge Base.  Degree in business, policy, environmental studies, engineering or similar studies.  Knowledge of construction training, project labor agreements, community workforce agreements, commercial and public construction industry, energy policy, environmental sustainability and/or related government entities helpful.

TIMING AND COMPENSATION

This full-time position will start as soon as possible. Competitive salary based on experience. Benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision) and eligibility for 401(k) retirement savings program. The position term is indefinite, subject to available funding. ECC is the fiscal sponsor for Emerald Cities Cleveland. Director will be accountable to the local council but will be a national Emerald Cities Collaborative employee.

Please send resume and cover letter, together in one document, with subject line “Job: Emerald Cities Director” toawoodrum@policymattersohio.org.  Position open until filled with priority given to applications received by July 24^th, 2015.

ECC is an affirmative action employer, and strongly supports the social goals of affirmative action. We therefore make special efforts to recruit individuals from groups that are historically under-represented in professional environments, or that suffer from broader societal discrimination.

For 100 years, SEIU has been helping workers stand up for their rights, fighting for dignity, respect and better conditions in workplaces and communities. With a membership 2 million strong, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the United States and our diverse leaders and staff support workers as they speak out for good jobs and better lives for themselves and their families.

We are seeking a Project Organizer / Organizer-In-Training (OITs) to work on aggressive campaigns in higher education. As a Project Organizer/OIT, your role is to work with a team of staff and members to support workers who are fighting to win power by building a Union in their workplace.

Position is available in VT / Upstate NY. This is a 1 year position.

Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):

• Conducting broad and intensive outreach efforts to workers.
• Building one-on-one relationships with workers, and educating them about building Union power.
• Identifying and developing leaders to guide and lead their campaign.
• Motivate and inspire workers to build their Union in the face of heavy-and often illegal-employer opposition.
• Using house visits and phone calls to identify workers interested in forming a Union.
• Working long and irregular hours, often including nights and weekends.
• Conducting individual and group meetings with workers to discuss and plan organizing campaigns.
• Motivating individual workers and groups of workers to take collective action.
• Working to involve community allies in organizing campaigns.
• Conducting research needed to build a comprehensive campaign.
• Previous experience in Union or community organizing is desirable. A demonstrated commitment to social justice is required.

Qualifications:

• Willingness to work long hours, nights, and weekends.
• Capacity to work independently and with a team.
• The ability to make and follow through on a work plan.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Basic writing and computer skills.
• The ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Willingness to conduct house visits and site visits.
• A car and a valid driver’s license are required.

Compensation:

Competitive salary based on experience, full benefits package including 100% employer-paid family health and dental insurance, and a car allowance. This is a salaried position.

Please send your cover letter and resume: cmachanoff@local200united.org

The Democracy at Work Institute seeks an experienced, self-directed, and collaborative person to join our dynamic national organization supporting the field of worker cooperative development. The Local Initiatives Organizer will support efforts to mobilize policies and resources, as well as build capacity for scaled cooperative development at the local level in cities across the country.

Essential Duties
Assessment, Strategy Development and Relationship-Building
• Conduct a listening and assessment project to understand the strengths, needs and gaps of various local organizing efforts to promote worker ownership in cities across the country.
• Distill and share with our staff lessons learned from cities where the Institute is playing an active support role.
• Play an ear-to-the ground role in local organizing efforts: maintain regular communication with local contacts and stay up to date on all the local cooperative development initiatives, city interest, and possibilities across the country.
• Identify and build relationships with key actors supporting worker cooperative development at the local and national level.
• Work with Institute staff, local actors, and local and national partner organizations to develop and refine place-based strategies for supporting scaled worker cooperative development.

Policy strategy
• Work with our staff and outside consultant to support the creation and replication of model resolutions and policies.
• Manage on-line dissemination of sample and model policies and resolutions, as well as tools for collective impact.

Capacity-Building
• Work with the Institute team to develop trainings and provide technical assistance to help build the capacity of local cooperative developers and other partner organizations.
• Support the creation of tools, curriculum and outreach materials specific to policy development, organizing, power mapping, equity and accessibility, ecosystem analysis, collective impact.

Ecosystem Development
• Present or coordinate presentations to a variety of partners on various cooperative development models and strategies.
• Build and maintain relationships with other organizations in the support ecosystem for worker cooperatives: business advisors, capital providers, government agencies, and technical assistance providers, etc.
• Participate in meetings, work groups, and projects of local worker cooperative groups and coalition(s), actively supporting a collaborative, strategic approach.

Outreach, Public Relations
• Do outreach, attend events and give presentations to cooperative developers, economic development officials, small business support centers, and other stakeholder groups.
• Recruit, train and supervise an “organizing corps” in 2-3 cities to do basic education and awareness-raising about worker cooperatives as a community wealth building strategy.
• Communicate lessons learned from local organizing initiatives to the field through a variety of means such as writings and conference presentations.
• Respond to inquiries and requests for information.

Qualifications
• Organizing: Experience in community or labor organizing, power mapping, grassroots
mobilization, and/or participatory community needs assessment is required.
• Worker cooperatives: Interest in worker cooperatives and other democratic employee ownership structures is required; experience with these business models is strongly preferred. You must be willing to become fluent in the basics of cooperative business functions (business planning and feasibility, equity and capital structures, governance and management functions, etc.) in order to communicate about them knowledgably to a variety of audiences.
• Community economic development: Background in economic development, community economic development, urban planning, and municipal policy is strongly preferred.
• Communication and training: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, including presentation and training skills, and familiarity with participatory and popular education. Strong phone skills and ability to build relationships remotely are key to success in this position.
• Diplomacy and discretion: Strong diplomatic skills and judgment are required in this position. You need to be able to both see possibility and ask hard questions with respect and discretion.
• Equity lens and cultural competency: You must be able to communicate with a broad range of people and institutions confidently and effectively, with a critical analysis of power, privilege, race, class and gender.
• Bilingual: The ability to speak both English and Spanish proficiently is required.
• Self-management: Our staff is highly autonomous. You should be a self-starter, comfortable taking initiative, scoping projects, managing priorities and time, and holding yourself accountable to realistic goals, with the support of co-workers committed to your success.

Commitment: This is a full-time job, based in either our Oakland or New York City Offices. A substantial amount of travel is expected, averaging one trip per month.

Compensation: Compensation depends on experience and will be commensurate with other positions in the field. The Democracy at Work Institute offers competitive compensation, full health benefits coverage, a generous time-off policy, and a highly participatory, mutually supportive workplace. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of all staff.

How to Apply:
• Applications are due August 11, 2015. The position is open until filled.
• Email a cover letter, indicating why you are interested in this specific position and what skills,
qualities and relationships you will bring to the organization, along with a resume to hiring@institute.usworker.coop. Include the subject line “Application for _____________ position.”
• If you are applying for multiple positions, send multiple emails.
• No phone or email inquiries.

About Democracy at Work Institute
The Democracy at Work Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit movement-based think-and-do tank that expands the promise of cooperative business ownership to communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality. We do research and advocacy; we develop tools and strategy; and we build cooperative development capacity to ensure that further growth in the worker cooperative movement is rooted in worker cooperatives themselves and reaches out to new communities of worker-owners, particularly low-income people, people of color and recent immigrants.

We come out of and retain close ties to the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national grassroots membership organization. All Institute programs integrate USFWC member input and foreground the experience of worker cooperatives. Although our formal entity is new, we have long institutional history and relationships and a strong reputation for effectiveness. We are building a strategy for scaled, sustainable worker cooperative development that brings together a wide array of field actors around a shared purpose. We are currently a staff of seven people. Our annual budget is ~ $850,000 and growing.

About Being on Staff
• The Institute is a startup organization. All staffers are expected to help build organizational capacity, including strategizing around program development, developing documentation, supporting communications and fundraising, and taking professional development opportunities.
• We have the capacity and commitment to support remote staffing, with staff around the country. A certain amount of travel for all staffers will be expected and supported. Ability and willingness to learn the technological tools for remote working is also expected.
• We aim to build a multiracial and class-diverse staff that reflects the future of worker cooperatives. Women, people of color and others who may be underrepresented at senior levels of the nonprofit workforce are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Full-time staff are eligible for membership in the organization after 6 months of employment. Members are eligible to serve on the Board of Directors, and elect two Director seats.
• We offer competitive compensation, full health benefits coverage and a generous time-off policy.
• We strive for a highly participatory, mutually supportive workplace that creates excellent work and allows us to have fun doing it. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of all staff.

The Democracy at Work Institute seeks an experienced, self-directed, and collaborative person to join our dynamic national organization supporting the field of worker cooperative development. Starting from a strong foundation in business development, the Business Strategist will develop a deep technical expertise in the transition of traditional businesses to democratic employee ownership, providing high-quality technical assistance to companies and business support organizations. The Business Strategist will also engage in strategic outreach to educate and develop an ecosystem of support for business transitions.

Essential Duties

Training and Consulting
• Training and consulting to service providers, cooperative developers, small business support organizations, and prospective cooperative developers.
• Training and consulting to businesses at all stages of a conversion to worker ownership.
• To a lesser degree, deliver training and technical assistance to startup worker cooperatives.

Presentations and Outreach
• Build a pipeline for possible business conversions through strategic outreach to cooperative developers, economic development officials, small business support centers, business associations, and other stakeholder groups.
• Develop and deliver presentations to conferences and target partner organizations

Tools and Curriculum
• Work with cooperative development staff to support the creation of high-quality tools and training curricula for business conversions.
• Consult with staff on the development of tools to measure and communicate impact.
• Identify ongoing needs for additional tools and curricula and work with Institute staff to develop.

Ecosystem Development and Collaboration
• Build and maintain relationships with other organizations in the support ecosystem for worker cooperatives: business advisors, capital providers, government agencies, and technical assistance providers, etc.
• Participate in meetings, work groups, and projects of national and local collaboratives.
• Ensure the on-time completion of collaborative projects with partners.
• Help collect and maintain deliverables for reporting to funders and partners.

Qualifications
• Business development: Experience in business development, including feasibility studies, project
staging, capital planning and financial projecting is required.
• Client cultivation and management: Experience as a consultant or within a start-up building its clientele base and corporate persona is preferred, including pipeline development, client relationship building and roster management/referral.
• Worker cooperatives: Interest in worker cooperatives and other democratic employee ownership structures is required; experience with these business models is strongly preferred.
• Quick learner: Ability to learn difficult and complex concepts quickly, and be able to communicate those concepts clearly to a range of audiences.
• Communication and training: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, including presentation and training skills, and familiarity with popular education. Strong phone skills and ability to build relationships remotely are key to success in this position.
• Equity lens and cultural competency: You must be able to communicate with a broad range of people and institutions confidently and effectively, with a critical analysis of power, race, class and gender. You need to be able to see possibility and ask hard questions with respect and discretion.
• Bilingual: Candidates who speak both English and Spanish proficiently are strongly preferred.
• Self-management: Our staff is highly autonomous. You should be a self-starter, comfortable taking initiative, scoping projects, managing priorities and time, and holding yourself accountable to realistic goals, with the support of co-workers committed to your success.

Commitment: This is a full-time job, based in either our Oakland, CA or New York City offices. Monthly to quarterly travel is expected.

Compensation: Compensation depends on experience and will be commensurate with other positions in the field. The Democracy at Work Institute offers competitive compensation, full health benefits coverage, a generous time-off policy, and a highly participatory, mutually supportive workplace. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of all staff.

How to Apply:
• Applications are due August 11, 2015. The position is open until filled.
• Email a cover letter, indicating why you are interested in this specific position and what skills,
qualities and relationships you will bring to the organization, along with a resume to hiring@institute.usworker.coop. Include the subject line “Application for _____________ position.”
• If you are applying for multiple positions, send multiple emails.
• No phone or email inquiries.

About Democracy at Work Institute
The Democracy at Work Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit movement-based think-and-do tank that expands the promise of cooperative business ownership to communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality. We do research and advocacy; we develop tools and strategy; and we build cooperative development capacity to ensure that further growth in the worker cooperative movement is rooted in worker cooperatives themselves and reaches out to new communities of worker-owners, particularly low-income people, people of color and recent immigrants.

We come out of and retain close ties to the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national grassroots membership organization. All Institute programs integrate USFWC member input and foreground the experience of worker cooperatives. Although our formal entity is new, we have long institutional history and relationships and a strong reputation for effectiveness. We are building a strategy for scaled, sustainable worker cooperative development that brings together a wide array of field actors around a shared purpose. We are currently a staff of seven people. Our annual budget is ~ $850,000 and growing.

About Being on Staff
• The Institute is a startup organization. All staffers are expected to help build organizational capacity, including strategizing around program development, developing documentation, supporting communications and fundraising, and taking professional development opportunities.
• We have the capacity and commitment to support remote staffing, with staff around the country. A certain amount of travel for all staffers will be expected and supported. Ability and willingness to learn the technological tools for remote working is also expected.
• We aim to build a multiracial and class-diverse staff that reflects the future of worker cooperatives. Women, people of color and others who may be underrepresented at senior levels of the nonprofit workforce are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Full-time staff are eligible for membership in the organization after 6 months of employment. Members are eligible to serve on the Board of Directors, and elect two Director seats.
• We offer competitive compensation, full health benefits coverage and a generous time-off policy.
• We strive for a highly participatory, mutually supportive workplace that creates excellent work and allows us to have fun doing it. We are committed to the personal and professional growth of all staff.