Job Type: Part Time

Remote: Ok

Salary: Minimum: $20,000 Maximum: $25,500
Details: Salary: The half-time salary range is $20,000 to $25,500, depending on experience.

Published: 10/03/2018

Address: New York, New York, United States

Description

Mothers Out Front seeks a talented and passionate part-time organizer to join our team and help build a diverse and powerful movement of mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers stepping up in big ways to take action on climate change in New York City. We have passionate volunteer-led teams across New York State advocating for a swift transition away from fossil fuels towards clean and renewable energy and are committed to deepening and expanding this critical movement. As the NYC community organizer, you will work to build teams who carry out effective local campaigns that move decision makers to make child-centered climate decisions.

Mothers Out Front is excited to add organizing capacity in New York. New York City, the financial capital of the world, is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change from extreme weather patterns and sea level rise. Upstate New York — known for its scenic beauty, abundant fresh water and arable soil — faces threats from flooding, drought, and the build-out of pipelines and related gas infrastructure. New York is poised to lead the nation on climate policy with its 2014 fracking moratorium, its laudable greenhouse gas reduction goals, and commitment to offshore wind. Unfortunately, there are still many road blocks in place that prevent New York from authentic and impactful climate leadership, including the powerful influence of the fossil fuel industry. We know New Yorkers care about protecting their state and ensuring a livable climate for their children and are ready for the progress which is so urgently needed for the state to continue to lead the way for the country. 

About Mothers Out Front:

Mothers Out Front builds our power as mothers to ensure a livable climate for all children. We are building a diverse national movement of mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers dedicated to convincing elected officials and business leaders to work for a swift, complete, and just transition away from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy. We know that mothers have an important role to play in the climate change movement, and, when it comes to protecting their children, mothers are an unstoppable force for change! Our goal is simple: to enable mothers to take active leadership in climate change work, by providing the structure, training, and tools for them to work together on campaigns in their communities and at the statewide level. We are a volunteer-led, national organization. Founded in 2013, we currently have staff working in eight states and are a fast growing organization with no plans of slowing down.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reaching out to mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers across the region to recruit and build new Mothers Out Front teams.
• Providing strategic advice, training, and support for new and existing teams around: developing strategic local and statewide campaign plans and materials, setting and helping to meet goals; ensuring the campaigns are in alignment with the Mothers Out Front mission to effectively make progress away from fossil fuels.
• Support members of Mothers Out Front in developing relationships with a diverse mix of allied organizations and community leaders.
• Ensuring key data (including number of people engaged, house parties held, volunteers participating in campaign events, and more) is recorded and tracked in our database, NationBuilder. Recruit and train volunteer data coordinators to ensure all community teams are effectively maximizing the database.
• Working closely with the volunteer leadership to coordinate events across the region. Recruit and support volunteer house party team members.
• Participating in fundraising initiatives as needed, including working with Mothers Out Front development and membership staff to meet membership goals in the region. Provide relevant data for the development department and, as needed, attend fundraising events.
• Recruiting New York members to serve on the statewide leadership team and functional teams.

 What we’re looking for in you:

• At least two years of experience in grassroots organizing with an emphasis on leadership development, ideally in a grassroots campaign setting.
• A passion for developing the leadership of mothers.
• High creativity and flexibility. An ability to thrive in a dynamic, goal-oriented, fast-paced, campaign-oriented environment. Ability to work remotely and be productively self-directed and personally organized.
• An understanding of strategic issue campaign development, ideally at the statewide and municipal level, including attention to power-building, tactics that influence decision-makers, building effective democratic local organizations, and the use of public narrative and story-telling in campaign organizing.
• Experienced at active and reflective listening. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• An ability to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• An ability to travel across the state as well as to a few staff gatherings outside of New York.
• A passion for climate justice and addressing climate change.
• Demonstrated ability and commitment to working with people from a variety of backgrounds, especially different ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It’s also helpful if you have experience working with people from different religious, educational, generational, and gender identity backgrounds as well as those with physical disabilities and from the LGBTQ community.
• Strong administrative skills, ideally including an aptitude for working with databases and setting up administrative systems. Some experience working with database software for fundraising and organizing.
• Experience with fundraising a bonus.

 Benefits

Benefits are prorated and include paid time off, holidays, 401(k) plan, flexible spending plan, and support for remote work setup. We offer ongoing training opportunities, a fast-paced, dynamic, supportive, and collaborative setting and we are proudly women-led!

Professional Level: Professional

Minimum Education Required; No requirement

How To Apply

jobs@mothersoutfront.org
https://www.mothersoutfront.org/new_york_city_community_organizer

 Please forward a cover letter and resume to jobs@mothersoutfront.org with NYC Community Organizer in the subject line and include where you heard about the position. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Forward a cover letter and resume at actionnycorganizer@maketheroadny.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Por favor de enviar una carta de presentación y currículo vitae a actionnycorganizer@maketheroadny.org. Las solicitudes serán consideradas de forma continua.

Make the Road New York seeks a community organizer to join its staff as part of a coordinated citywide initiative, ActionNYC, which will reach immigrant communities across New York City to connect individuals to free immigration legal consultations, document preparation, and application assistance. This position will conduct tailored outreach to engage and activate traditionally undeserved immigrant communities and connect them with immigration navigation and legal services. The position will be for approximately 15 hours per week through the end of June of 2017.

Make the Road New York builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services. Make the Road operates neighborhood-based community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island and Brentwood, Long Island. With a membership of more than 19,000+ low-income New Yorkers, Make the Road tackles the critical issues facing our community: workplace justice, tenants’ rights, immigrant rights, language-access, LGBTQ justice, public education, health care access, and immigration reform.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct strategic, mass-targeted outreach to immigrant populations about ActionNYC, DACA Education and other City services
• Refer individuals to ActionNYC events and other services
• Establish, strengthen, and maintain connections with trusted community groups faith-based institutions, and other leaders in immigrant neighborhoods
• Attend meetings and events to provide information about and promote ActionNYC and DACA Education programs, and to address issues and concerns
• Submit bi-weekly workplans
• Use ActionNYC’s technological tool to collect data.

Requirements:

• Previous campaign and/or outreach experience
• Ability and comfort approaching and speaking to a wide variety of people in a variety of circumstances
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with community partners (e.g., churches, social service organizations)
• Ability and comfort doing outreach at worksites
• Ability to work in a team and in collaboration with other organizations and partners;
• Ability to work independently to meet ambitious goals
• Must be willing to work evening and weekend hours
• Comfort using technology and inputting data
• Ability to engage, motivate, and inspire others
• Ability and experience working with diverse individuals and communities
• Preferred: Bilingual in Spanish and English.

Make the Road New York is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and seeks to insure equal opportunity and equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, genetic information and sexual orientation, in all employment decisions including but not limited to hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

SALARY AND BENEFITS:

Salary is $15 per hour, with the expectation of approximately 15 hours per week.

Organizador de Action NYC

Se Hace Camino Nueva York busca un Organizador Comunitario para unirse al personal como parte de una iniciativa coordinada por la ciudad, ActionNYC, que llegará a las comunidades de inmigrantes a través de la ciudad de Nueva York para conectarlos a consultas legales de inmigración , preparación de documentos, y la asistencia de aplicaciones gratis. Esta posición conducirá divulgación adaptadas a participar y activar las comunidades de inmigrantes tradicionalmente marginadas y conectarlos con la navegación de inmigración y servicios legales. La posición será por aproximadamente 15 horas por semana hasta finales de Junio del 2017.

Se Hace Camino Nueva York construye el poder de las comunidades latinas y de la clase trabajadora para lograr la dignidad y la justicia a través de organizar, innovación política, la educación transformadora, y los servicios de supervivencia. Se Hace Camino opera centros comunitarios de barrio en Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island y Brentwood, Long Island. Con una membresía de más de 19,000 de neoyorquinos, Se Hace Camino ataca los temas críticos que enfrenta nuestra comunidades: la justicia laboral, los derechos de los inquilinos, derechos de los inmigrantes, el acceso a lenguaje, justicia LGBTQ, educación pública, acceso a cuidado de salud, y la reforma inmigratoria.

Responsabilidades de Trabajo:

• Llevar a cabo, la divulgación masiva de orientación estratégica para la población inmigrante sobre ActionNYC, DACA Educación y otros servicios de la Ciudad.
• Consulte a individuos a eventos de ActionNYC y otros servicios.
• Establecer, fortalecer y mantener conexiones con grupos comunitarios de confianza, instituciones basadas en la fe, y otros líderes en los barrios de inmigrantes.
• Asistir a las reuniones y eventos para proporcionar información y promover los programas ActionNYC, DACA Educación y para hacer frente a los problemas y preocupaciones.
• Entrega quincenal de plan de trabajo
• Usar herramienta tecnológica de ActionNYC para colectar datos.

Requisitos:

• Experiencia anteriormente con campañas y / o experiencia de divulgación
• Capacidad y comodidad de hablar con amplia variedad de personas en una variedad de circunstancias
• Capacidad y comodidad de hacer alcance en lugares de trabajo
• Capacidad para construir y mantener relaciones con los socios de la comunidad (por ejemplo, iglesias, organizaciones de servicios sociales)
• Capacidad para trabajar en equipo y en colaboración con otras organizaciones y asociados;
• Capacidad para trabajar de forma independiente para cumplir con metas ambiciosas
• Debe estar dispuesto a trabajar por la noche y fines de semana
• Cómodo utilizando tecnología y entrada de datos
• Capacidad para participar, motivar e inspirar a otros
• Capacidad y experiencia de trabajo con diversos individuos y comunidades
• Preferida: Bilingüe en español e inglés.

Se Hace Camino Nueva York es un empleador que da oportunidad igual y un empleador de acción afirmativa que tiene por objeto garantizar la igualdad de oportunidades e igualdad de trato de todos los empleados y solicitantes de empleo sin discriminación ilegal por motivos de raza, credo, religión, color, nacionalidad, origen nacional, sexo, edad , discapacidad, estado civil, identidad de género, la información genética y la orientación sexual, en todas las decisiones de empleo, incluyendo pero no limitado a la contratación, compensación, beneficios, capacitación, terminación, y todos los demás términos y condiciones de empleo.

SALARIO Y BENEFICIOS:

El salario es de $15 por hora, con expectaciones de aproximadamente 15 horas por semana.

Workers United, New York-New Jersey Regional Joint Board, affiliated with SEIU

The New York-New Jersey Regional Joint Board, Workers United, affiliated with SEIU, seeks an experienced organizer who views labor organizing through a social justice lens. Candidates must be deeply connected to issues including: workplace fairness, immigration, racial justice and education.

As an organizer at the Joint Board, you would be part of a team working on the Nail Salon Organizing Project.  Other organizing campaigns may include retail, manufacturing, and garment workers in New York and its surrounding areas. Our current membership consists of workers from nearly every continent who speak many languages but are united through the fight for justice in their workplaces and communities. Our ideal candidate is an experienced, creative, driven, and hard-working organizer who is skilled at and excited by facilitating the empowerment of workers through forming a Union.

Qualifications:

·         Demonstrated commitment to the labor movement and social justice.

·         Minimum of two years’ experience organizing as part of a labor union or community organization.

·         Ability to work independently and within a team structure.

·         Ability to carry out work in efficient and effective manner to meet goals within established timelines.

·         Experience with and enthusiasm for working with people from diverse backgrounds.

·         Strong listening and relational skills.

·         Demonstrated ability to reflect on and learn from interpersonal relationships.

·         Demonstrated independent judgment within an organizing context.

·         Ability to communicate effectively with workers verbally and in writing.

·         Attention to detail and follow-through.

·         Ability and willingness to work on nights and weekends according to the needs of the campaign and within the limits set forth in the staff Union contract.

Fluency in English-Korean or English-Mandarin, including reading, writing, and speaking is required.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

·         Building relationships of trust with individual workers.

·         Identifying, recruiting, and facilitating the development of worker activists to lead and guide union organizing campaigns.

·         Facilitating the formation of worker organizing committees that are effective in the overall strategy of union organizing campaigns.

·         Conducting worker meetings either one-on-one or in group settings.

·         Motivating workers to take action.

·         Providing accurate assessments of workers’ commitment to an organizing campaign and their ability to carry out tasks related to the campaign.

·         Identifying and building solidarity with community allies.

·         Providing input into the development of campaign strategies during all phases of the campaign.

·         Probing identified targets.

·         Maintaining accurate lists, records, wall charts and updating the database.

·         Coordinating workplace actions.

·         Working effectively with the organizing team and all Union staff and leaders.

Salary & Benefits:

Salary is commensurate with experience. This is a full-time position within the bargaining unit. The New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board is a staff Union shop that provides a strong and competitive salary and benefits package. We are especially interested in applications from qualified candidates who are also women, immigrants, gender non-conforming people, and/or people of color.

Application Requirements:

A resume and cover letter are required for all applications.  Your cover letter should explain your reason for wanting to work for us, an example of how you demonstrated success in a similar position and a description of how this position fits into your long-term career plan.  APPLY HERE

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Workers United, New York-New Jersey Regional Joint Board is an Equal Opportunity Employer.