Position: Organizing Director
Position Type: Full-Time ─ Exempt
Location: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Birmingham preferred; remote (work from home) available
Reports to: Co-Executive Director
Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 based on location and relevant experience
Who we are ─ About Jobs to Move America:
Jobs to Move America is a national and multi-regional strategic policy center that works to transform public spending and corporate behavior using a comprehensive approach that is rooted in racial and economic justice and community organizing. We seek to advance a fair and prosperous economy with good jobs and healthier communities for all. To learn more, visit our website: www.jobstomoveamerica.org.
What You’ll Do ─ Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
At this critical time for lower-income, frontline communities and people of color, JMA is uniquely positioned to advance a powerful agenda for equitable job creation and climate justice. JMA is working to build powerful coalitions to fight for community benefits agreements at green and high-tech manufacturers--ones who stand to benefit from billions of dollars of public investment. We want manufacturers to make real, legally-backed commitments to communities and workers for a voice on the job, equitable hiring and training, and other needs identified by communities. We are hiring a team of organizers to organize these coalitions and to build relationships with workers at targeted plants. We seek a Director to build JMA’s organizing program.
Primary responsibilities include:
Develop JMA’s organizing methodology
- Create processes for how to build, structure, and assess our coalitions; how to engage and assess workers; how to engage community leaders and organizations
- Standardize worker and coalition assessments and data practices across JMA including using Salesforce
- Create materials and train staff on these methods and processes
- Develop and strengthen our analysis of power in how we organize
- Operationalize intentional considerations of race, gender, and other identity-related oppressions in how our organizing is carried out
- Work with JMA’s partner unions to develop a culture of practice for organizing methods on JMA campaigns.
Create training program for JMA’s organizers
- Develop a curriculum for JMA’s organizers including onboarding new hires, training new organizers, and upskilling and coaching experienced organizers
- Create materials to train organizers on how to organize effective community coalitions and engage workers
- Periodically run training workshops for new and current organizers
- Nurture a culture of winning and institutionalizing protections and gains for working people and in particular impacted- and historically-marginalized communities and people of color.
Supervise JMA staff
- Support JMA program directors, assistant program directors, and campaign managers in supervising organizers
- Understand and provide lead thinking about strategy and organizing needs, purposes, outcomes, and plans for each of JMA’s campaigns
- Regularly check-in and debrief with JMA organizers
- Provide feedback to organizers to help them improve, participate in evaluations with organizers
- Supervision may include traveling to shadow organizers in the field.
About you ─ Required Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is able to quickly build up a supervising and training program for our organizers and should have:
- At least 10 years of experience in labor, community, and/or coalition organizing with at least 5 years in a supervisory role
- Experience in building coalitions across a range of stakeholders with the ability to move coalition members to shared agreement and action
- Demonstrated ability to organize workers
- Experience supervising organizers and leading them on campaigns
- Experience working with data management systems to track contacts; Salesforce experience is a plus
- Skill leading or creating organizing training programs preferred
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lead and inspire a team
- Ability to provide useful and effective feedback
- Ability to build and sustain authentic and productive working relationships with colleagues across race and other group identities, including JMA employees as well as external partners
- Maintain a high level of timely follow-up to follow through on commitments
- Demonstrated self-awareness, empathy, and social skills in work and interpersonal interactions
- Ability to work independently and remotely when necessary.
Other Physical Requirements:
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
- Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
- Must be able to communicate clearly over the phone with reasonable accommodations