Department:   U.S. Policy & Advocacy Program

Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the premier global legal organization dedicated to advancing women’s reproductive health, self-determination, and dignity.  Its mission is straightforward and ambitious: to advance reproductive health and rights as fundamental human rights that all governments around the world are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.  Headquartered in New York City, the Center has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Washington, DC and a staff of more than 130 diverse professionals.  Its annual operating budget is approximately $23 million, the result of an extraordinary growth trajectory; the Center is now poised for a new phase of significant expansion through its next Strategic Plan.

The Center’s game-changing litigation and advocacy work, combined with its unparalleled expertise in constitutional, comparative, and international human rights law, have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide. It has played a key role in securing landmark legal victories in the U.S., Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, safe abortion services, and comprehensive sexuality information, as well as the prevention of forced sterilization and child marriage.  It has brought groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies, led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights, and has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 55 countries.

To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org.

Position Description:

The Center seeks a State Advocacy Adviser will report directly to the Director of State Advocacy and will work closely with other members of the U.S. Policy & Advocacy Program and the Communications department. S/he will support the Center’s advocacy work by taking a leading role on state advocacy initiatives. S/he will manage communications about state policy and advocacy and serve as a liaison with other members of the organization to develop cross-departmental strategies.

This position will be based in New York City.

Responsibilities:

Primary job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying and executing strategies for involvement in state-based advocacy and policy campaigns to protect and advance reproductive rights, including strategies and projects to support our proactive state policy agenda;
• Managing state-focused advocacy efforts in connection with the Act for Women campaign;
• Conducting outreach and alliance building with state and local advocates;
• Creating joint campaigns with state partners as appropriate;
• Representing the Center at coalition meetings and with clients and ally organizations;
• Working closely with the communications team to promote an integrated approach to advocacy and supporting Center-led digital advocacy efforts to influence state policies;
• Participating in events such as coalition meetings, mobilization events, policy-related activities in various states;
• Developing reports and advocacy materials and working with design team and external partners to create and promote them;
• Supporting the Director of State Advocacy on program, managerial, and operational matters as needed;
• Handling information requests and other related duties and assignments as required.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 4-6 years of relevant experience such as state and local policy or advocacy work; electoral campaign work; community organizing; nonprofit programmatic experience.
• Strong writing skills, including an ability to convey complicated matters to broad audiences; comfort with public speaking and presenting; strong proofreading and editing skills.
• Experience in or ability to plan and execute a variety of events and projects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required; experience with webinar management, Salesforce, Convio, or other CRMs a plus.
• Experience with reproductive rights issues or a familiarity with other issues relating to women’s equality, human rights, civil rights, or racial and social justice issues is highly desirable.
• An understanding of online and offline advocacy strategies.
• Ability to build relationships with advocates across the country.
• Ability to travel occasionally.
• Ability to work well with competing priorities, meet deadlines, and manage workflow processes involving multiple people.
• Demonstrated experience and judgment working both collaboratively and independently.

Compensation: The Center offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits program.
 

Core Values and Employment: The Center for Reproductive Rights is committed to a set of core values in its culture and work environment and expects its staff to have the same commitment. These values are innovation, integrity, effectiveness, excellence, treating our employees as our greatest asset, and building an inclusive and diverse workplace.

How to Apply: Please click on the link below to apply.  A cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three references must be included in your application in order to be considered for this role.  It is encouraged to include these application materials as attachments.

https://reproductiverights.applicantpro.com/jobs/391024-30518.html   

Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring, and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all groups and communities to apply. 

www.reproductiverights.org

Consumer Reports has spent the last 80 years advancing the rights of citizens, consumers, and families. We’ve passed key legislation, enacted regulations, and held corporations accountable. Through our top-10 magazine, large digital presence, comprehensive product testing, extensive policy expertise, and 10M+ community members, we fight for a safe, fair, and equitable market for everyone.

We are at an exciting moment in the history of Consumer Reports. We are building our capacity to achieve significant, measurable, and meaningful changes for American consumers through comprehensive federal, state, and corporate campaigns. Consumer Reports is unique in its role as a non-profit advocacy group, media company, and large, national community.

Working with campaign managers, policy experts, journalists, research scientists, lobbyists, communications staff, and product developers, you’ll organize on issues including food safety, affordable healthcare, debt and credit reform, privacy and data tracking, corporate executive accountability, and more.

You will be responsible for rallying our base to action, shaping them into a large-scale, grassroots political force ready, connected, and empowered to win big victories through coordinated efforts.

You’ll play to win. But most importantly, you’ll honor and continue an 80-year history of improving the health, safety, and well-being of American families.

• Coordinate closely with teams across the organization to develop short and long term organizing strategies to meet a campaign or issue’s objectives.
• Build meaningful relationships with activists and members. Work closely with the Community Management team to develop activists into leaders in your issue area.
• Expand our relationships and connections with coalition groups – while strengthening existing ones.
• Work closely with campaign manager on campaign proposal process and strategy development, including the development of goals, targets, and tactics.
• Play a key role in helping to shape our policy positions in specific priority issues.
• Identify and implement new organizing tactics and opportunities (including digital platforms and channels) to help drive activist engagement.
• Evaluate and measure success of organizing activities with manager to ensure progress towards our goals. Help determine changes to strategies needed to reach goals.
• Help craft effective messaging on email actions and other content.
• Lobby decision makers across our campaigns and issues when needed.
• Travel to organize and coordinate training events, media events, strategy sessions, or other large events and conferences.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Bachelor’s degree plus minimum of 5 years of campaign organizing experience. Experience with online and offline organizing, social media and working in a team environment. Experience working with activists or volunteers, particularly shifting them from online to offline activities. Ability to prioritize, multitask, meet deadlines, and work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. Must have strong writing, research, and public speaking skills. Good political instincts. Must have exceptional planning and organizational skills. Willingness to travel.

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New Settlement Apartments (NSA) is a not-for-profit housing and community service organization located in an underserved area of the southwest Bronx. We have a 25-year track record of active commitment to neighborhood revitalization and community development, including working towards excellence in community public schools. Year-round community services, education programs and our housing serves, serve over 15,000 youth and adults each year.

Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), New Settlement’s Housing Organizing initiative, has been working since 2005 to build tenant power through community organizing to not only address prevailing threats to tenants’ rights and existing affordable housing stock, but to expand access to safe and affordable housing. CASA works primarily in Community Board 4 (CB4), or the Highbridge/Concourse section of the southwest Bronx, but our campaigns often pursue city- and state-wide impact and thus work with vibrant and diverse coalitions.

We conduct strategic outreach and organize tenant associations, provide monthly housing workshops and legal clinics, hold monthly membership meetings and both lead and participate in city and state-wide policy campaigns. Our recent campaign work has focused on reforming Housing Court (including but not limited to a citywide campaign to guarantee universal access to representation for all tenants who find themselves in Housing Court), building city-wide support for a rent freeze for all rent-stabilized units, a city- and state-level campaign to end non-rent fees and associated harassment, and most recently, launching a campaign for the participatory rezoning of the Southwest Bronx.All of our campaigns are member-envisioned, member-led and member-implemented.

In October and March 2015, we were awarded theStanding Up for Justice Award by the MinKwon Center for Community Action and the Ally Organization Awardby CAAAV, respectively. In September 2014, we were awarded the Activist Award by the Urban Justice Center for our ‘long-standing dedication to building the power of Bronx tenants and fiercely advocating for affordable housing” and in March of 2013 we received an Excellence in Neighborhood Organizing Award from the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development, for our tenant organizing work. For more information, go to:www.casapower.org

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced, bold, passionate, hard-working, and dedicated person who is looking for an opportunity to grow their organizing skills and capacity and help move our cutting edge and exciting work forward. The position calls for a mid-level staff person who is excited to build the power and infrastructure of our important work.The position will report to CASA’s Deputy Director and work in coordination with the organizing staff.

Job Responsibilities:

Guided by the Director, the Deputy Director and in coordination with other organizers and interns, the Lead Organizer will work to strengthen CASA’s broad base of members, who are committed to housing justice, understand what it takes to build a movement and are prepared to take bold action to transform the quality and affordability of housing in the Southwest Bronx.The Lead Organizer’s Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Building a Strong Base of Members through:

Organize Tenants’ Associations: We organize so that landlord harassment stops, repairs are done, people can stay in their homes, communities are stabilized, and ultimately so that people know and claim their own power. Our model is to develop steering committees that work collectively based on people’s skills, interests and time. We teach leaders how to facilitate meetings, make flyers, write letters, run press conferences, pressure the banks, meet with their landlords and lobby resources like HPD. Our goal is to develop tenants’ associations that can ultimately operate independently of our support while bringing members of tenants association into our organization and developing them as leaders to lead our campaigns.

Conducting Effective Outreach and Base building Work: Using various and creative methods to recruit new members, keeping accurate records, assessing potential members, and effectively meeting goals to turnout members to key actions and events.

• Leadership Development: The organizer will constantly work to develop the skills, capacity and analysis of our members through informal and formal leadership development work. The organizer will work to encourage participation and a sense of ownership among members.

• Campaign Strategy and Development: We have three active campaigns: The Campaign to Reform the Bronx Housing Court, which includes the fight for the right to counsel and the Campaign for a Rent Freeze and the Campaign for a Just Rezoning of Jerome Ave. We are looking for an organizer to join our team who can help lead one of these important campaigns which includes mobilizing for actions, developing campaign strategy and innovative tactics, conducting research, working with media, etc.

• Supervise 2-3 community organizers working on housing justice issues.

• Actively Participate in and Develop our Organizational Capacity: This includes participating in and prepping members to facilitate our monthly CASA Membership Meetings, creating and facilitating regular workshops specific to housing rights, laws and processes, seeking out training and learning opportunities, facilitating staff meetings, actively participating in staff retreats, keeping up with database and reporting requirements and thinking through ways to develop CASA into the organization it can and should be.

Desired Experience and Qualifications: Minimum two years’ experience in organizing; a well-developed theory of change; a strong track record of a commitment to social justice; ability to communicate, listen and motivate people to action from diverse backgrounds; strong experience in facilitation, training and leadership development; excellent writing and public speaking skills; computer literate; ability to work nights and weekends as necessary. English/Spanish bilingual skills strongly preferred.

Salary and Benefits: Competitive salary, depending on experience. Comprehensive benefits package, including 401(k). Great opportunities for learning, growth and development.

How to Apply

Send cover letter, résumé and list of three professional references to housingorgsearch@newsettlement.org or by mail to Housing Organizer Search, New Settlement Apartments, 1512 Townsend Ave, Bronx NY 10452. No faxes or phone calls, please. EEO/AA

Position Description

VOCAL-NY is seeking a talented individual interested in creating grassroots political power as part of a dynamic team. The community organizer will support leadership development, community empowerment and civic engagement among low-income people who are impacted by mass incarceration, and promote their participation in planning and policymaking that affects their lives. Examples of active campaigns include:

• Ending biased policing practices like Stop & Frisk and zero-tolerance policies
• Removing barriers to employment, housing, and voting for people with conviction histories
• Decriminalizing marijuana and creating alternatives to the drug war

Job activities are varied and may include: community outreach; mobilization; leadership development; base-building; event coordination; monitoring the implementation of legislation; data collection and analysis; communications and media outreach; and creating public education and advocacy materials. Some administrative tasks (e.g. phone calls, data entry) are assigned as needed.

Job Responsibilities

• Membership recruitment: Conduct base building activities and achieve targeted membership recruitment goals, especially through outreach at youth, Alternative-to-Incarceration, and re-entry programs, court houses, and other venues as directed.

• Leadership development: Conduct trainings that build the knowledge and skills of people who are impacted by mass incarceration to participate in planning and policymaking that affects their lives, as well as Know Your Rights trainings.

• Issue ID and campaign coordination: Assist members in identifying advocacy issues, developing advocacy strategy and implementation.

• Mobilization: Turn out large numbers of members to rallies, meetings and other events through mass phone banking and relationship-building,

• Phone-banking: In addition to directly phone-banking, the position will coordinate phone-banking for members.

• Membership meetings: Convene regular membership meetings and smaller campaign/committee meetings.

• Database: Record and input data into our community organizing database.

• Support: The position will also be expected to provide support for all community organizing and campaigns around the drug war, mass incarceration and HIV/AIDS within VOCAL-NY as needed. We have a highly collaborative office environment where staff members provide regular support for each other’s campaigns, which is in part a function of our limited resources and ambitious scope of work.

How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and résumé tojobsatvocal@gmail.com. In the subject line, please put “Civil Rights Community Organizer [Your Name]”. No phone calls please.

VOCAL-NY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, people of color, people who are LGBTQ and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in hiring those who have been adversely affected by the criminal justice system and the war on drugs.

The position will remain open until filled.

Note: Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted

The Organization

The Working World is a 501c3 organization with operations in the US, Nicaragua, and Argentina. We are a business lender like no other. If you’ve ever dreamed of being a part of a revolution in the financial sector – putting workers and economic justice at the center of your work while helping democratically run businesses thrive – then come and work with us!

The Working World builds cooperatively-owned businesses in low-income communities in the US, Argentina, and Nicaragua, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support. We facilitate loans and business support to businesses with democratic ownership in many sectors of the economy that are designed to help facilitate business growth and worker ownership.

Since 2004, The Working World has supported more than 800 projects with over 200 businesses – lending more than four million dollars and creating hundreds of jobs in the process. We have over 98% repayment rates – unheard of in our industry. We attribute it to the tailor-made business support we are able to provide to each and every business that receives a Working World loan.

More information about our mission, impact, and team is available at our website:http://www.theworkingworld.org/

The Position

The Working World is a lender, but we are also a non-profit organization. Our loan fund is generated through relationships with investors who believe in our mission and want a return on their investment. We raise our operating budget from foundations and individual donors who have the same goals – they want us to deliver on our mission through the proliferation of successful democratically-run businesses. This is their return on investment.

The Working World is seeking a new member of the team who can beautifully articulate our work, impact, reach, and dreams to foundations through our grant proposals, foundation reports, and ongoing communication with our institutional funders and investors. The Fundraising and Communications Officer will work closely with our Founder and Executive Director, our Director of Research & Strategy, our Director of Operations, and our Lead Office Administrator to successfully increase The Working World’s operating budget over the coming years. Specifically, the Fundraising and Communications Officer will work to prepare grant proposals and grant reports, as well as keep track of the logistics of grant applications, organize and draft foundation updates and individual donor solicitation communications, and help log donations and send thank you letters.

This position will report to our Executive Director. Preference will be given to candidates who are in the New York City metro area and can work from our office in lower Manhattan.

Essential Duties

• Prepare initial drafts of all grant proposals, and refine and perfect them as a team with the Executive Director, the Director of Operations, and our Lead Office Administrator.

• Collect information about loans, business support services and other programs from staff members to fully articulate activities and impact in a given grant reporting period. Draft all grant reports for foundations and refine and perfect them as a team with the Executive Director, the Director of Operations, and our Lead Office Administrator.

• Draft all foundation and partner update emails and thank you letters for individual donors.

• Lead the process of developing the organization’s annual and quarterly reports, and disseminating them widely, liaising with a designer to ensure the highest quality report possible.

• Coordinate fundraising campaigns.

• Research potential donor and foundation prospects and maintain the prospect database.

The ideal applicant:

• Possesses positive, superhuman energy and knows how to get things done.

• Is an easy fluid writer who can articulate complex ideas in simple terms.

• Is an enthusiastic nerd, or avid learner, about financial markets, lending, business development, the new economy, and democratic ownership models.

• Is a creative problem-solver who can imagine how to make any funding opportunity connect with The Working World’s mission and impact.

• Has 3-5 years of successful grant writing experience, with a great track record of success.

• Has 3-5 years of communications experience, with proven effectiveness.

• Believes fundraising and effective communications go hand-in-hand, and thinks they’re both fun.

• Is a great communicator and team player – pleasant to work with every day.

• Is devoted to transforming our economy, and believes in a future where democracy is not so alien to financial markets and the private sector.

• Has proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Docs and spreadsheets.

• Possesses experience in project management or with juggling several projects.

How to Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter (including salary requirements) articulating your interest and qualifications for the position to eden@theworkingworld.org. Please include “Fundraising and Communications Officer” in the subject line of your email.

Applications will be accepted until close of business on May 23, and ideal start date is as soon as possible.

The Working World is committed to a diverse staff team and encourages candidates of all racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to apply. Staff are chosen on the basis of ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, in accordance with federal and state law.

Overview

The Neighborhood Revitalization Coordinator is a full-time position responsible for managing all aspects of the affiliate’s involvement with larger neighborhood revitalization efforts. This staff person implements the community development and outreach efforts needed to create partnerships and coalitions for creating a community planning process and increased involvement in HFHGN’s work. The NRI Coordinator also conducts research to support understanding of the target community and HFHGN’s impact, coordinates expansion of building products (ABWK, critical repairs, and weatherization), and helps mobilize resources to implement these activities. Additionally, this staff person will support the organization’s marketing and volunteer recruitment efforts.

Responsibilities

Community Development and Outreach

• Identify targeted neighborhoods within larger selected community to focus on establishing goals and strategic plans
• Identify and work with a coalition of official and unofficial community leaders, non-profit organizations, community agencies, and neighborhood residents to identify community assets and needs, and develop a community plan of action
• Develop a clear understanding of the issues of the target community
• Establish and maintain relationships within the target community and the Habitat Newburgh volunteer community
• Attend community meetings, events, and forums to facilitate understanding of our neighborhood revitalization efforts and HFHGN and opportunities for collaboration and partnership
• Coordinate efforts to recruit potential homeowners and neighborhood residents with Family Services Coordinator

Research

• Gain clear understanding of the Success Measures evaluation method and other evaluation methods
• Lead the planning process for community development evaluation and data collection implementation including identifying external influences, organizational influences, capacity assessment, performance measurements, and outcome evaluation
• Recruit data collectors (volunteers, college interns, partnerships with other organizations)
• Access, analyze and communicate relevant data
• Create reports and other mechanisms to communicate results with a variety of audiences
• Lead efforts to share results with staff, Board and community

Fundraising

• Network to build contacts and fundraising opportunities
• Research potential grant opportunities
• Write grant proposals to secure funding for neighborhood revitalization activities
• Work with Fund Development Manager to identify and secure donations and sponsors for community development activities

Construction

• Work with Construction Manager to identify viable sites and neighborhoods to target work
• Work with Construction Manager and Site Supervisors to establish and implement an integrated system for additional housing products including ABWK, critical repairs, and weatherization.
• Supervise ABWK projects as needed

Volunteer

• Increase number of volunteers and groups participating in HFHGN work including within the target community area
• Work with Volunteer Coordinator to implement volunteer recruitment and engagement for neighborhood revitalization housing product activities

Marketing

• Assist with creation and implementation of a framework for raising public awareness about the work of neighborhood revitalization and HFHGN
• Assist with creation, conception, and presentation of social media strategy and integrated marketing campaigns
• Support organizational branding through multi-media creation and design

Administrative

• Maintain organized records of activities and data collection
• Support construction application efforts

Skills and Experience

• A college degree (public policy, urban planning, sociology, political science, particularly useful)
• Experience working with diverse, and low and high income populations
• Knowledge of affordable housing
• Experience with community development
• Understanding of urban policy or planning desirable
• Spanish speaking ability desirable
• Data collection and analysis experience
• Skills to handle variety of data collection and outreach efforts
• Experience in using MS Excel to create databases and analyze data
• Experience with ArcGIS or other mapping software preferable
• Proficient in MS Word & Powerpoint, and desktop publishing desirable
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• High capacity for verbal and written communication
• Design and public relations experience preferred
• Experience with construction helpful

Work Habits

• Values a team-oriented approach to decision making and problem solving
• Values an asset approach to community development
• Works effectively both individually and in a collaborative environment
• Demonstrates organizational and follow-through skills
• Exhibits attention to detail
• Exercises excellent judgment
• Works with integrity
• Communicates effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and income levels
• Provides and receives feedback constructively
• Available to work evening and weekend hours

How to Apply

The review process of applications will begin immediately and remain open until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration please submit resume with cover letter to info@habitatnewburgh.org or fax to (845) 568-5632 by May 15, 2016. No phone calls please. This position is eligible for health insurance, vacation, and 10 holidays. Salary is commensurate with experience.