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Community Organizer


Inkster, Michigan
United States

Supervisor:
Level of Education Required: Bachelors

General Information

Application Procedure:

Responsibilities

Specific Duties:

1. Develop relationships with institutional leaders in Inkster, Michigan around the concern for early childhood development.

2. Execute a power analysis of Inkster, including potential obstacles to advancing childhood development.

3. Create an organizing plan in collaboration with the Community Development Agency.

4. Identify leaders in neighborhoods and institutions, convene them, and develop them into a leadership team with the capacity of taking action to remove obstacles and enhance greater participation for childhood development.

Responsibilities:

  • Conducts 20-25 one-on-one meetings every week, especially at the beginning of the effort; forms teams of leaders around identified problems, and trains and develops the leaders through team actions;
  • Trains leaders to conduct, regular efforts and campaigns to recruit new leaders, build relationships with potential allies, to do face-to-face research on powerful players in the region;
  • Assists leaders to define vision and goals for their teams or organization, and trains leaders to act in the public arena with measurable impact;
  • Provides regular organizing training for leaders and community members in the principles and strategies of congregation-based community organizing;
  • Works with leaders to plan large community action meetings at the local and regional levels.
  • Works effectively as a member of a staff team, focusing on the leadership development of clergy/institutional leaders, parents/students and others;

  • Integrates civic engagement into the full life of the organization.
  • Meets weekly with the Tubman Executive Director for help evaluating and planning work plans.
  • Write weekly reports and participate in weekly staff meetings.

Qualifications

Candidates must have college degree, valid driver’s license and car, and a successful Internship or fellowship in community organizing (or equivalent).

Skills of the Professional Organizers:   Tubman organizers approach their work with a deep sense of calling to help people become leaders and change agents in their communities.  An organizer must come to the work with skills that must be developed over the life of his/her career:  
  • Ability to connect to, engage with and inspire community members across all differences, including religion, race, gender, age, language, class and life experiences.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; desire and capacity to build relations with people in the church social hall, at the neighborhood meeting, on the street corner, in the school or market, etc.
  • Facility to working with urban communities, communities of color, faith institutions, agency directors, school administrators.
  • Solid understanding of one's own life and/or faith journey and a strong sense of power.
  • Working understanding of public and private institutions at local, statewide, and national levels;
  • Capacity to think strategically and analytically about social, economic, cultural, and political issues affecting a community.
  • Courage and capacity to inspire leaders and teams to take action on issues, to create campaigns, to create organizations and build power.
  • Creativity:  the organizations, campaigns, actions all take creativity and courage.
  • Desire to learn and grow a significant public life, openness to challenge.
  • Ability to work both as part of a strong staff team and independently.
  • Strong writing skills (fund development, reports, communication, press releases).
  • Experiential understanding of different organizing strategies, incl. community, labor, voter.

Compensation



Director of Field Organizing and Training


Detroit, Michigan
United States

Supervisor: Executive Director
Level of Education Required:

General Information

Application Procedure:

All applicants must apply for this position online.

Please attach the following three (3) documents:
1) An electronic file of your resume (preferably in PDF format) including salary history and 3 references.

Responsibilities

Assist the Executive Director in:

  1. Develop issue and action campaigns based on local organizing in collaboration with all Tubman Affiliates (Rebuilding Civil Society in Detroit, Youth Voice, Metro Coalition of Congregations, & Our Kids Come First).
  2. Ensure staff development and training, focusing on specific issue and action campaigns for all organizers and interns assigned to Our Kids Come First and Youth Voice;
  3. Direct HTC/SWS Intern Community Organizing Program including, curriculum, recruitment, placements and intern development;
  4. Establish a statewide network of university faculty who expand HTC/SWS access to students, identify intern community organizing candidates and establish HTC cohorts of student organizers on campus;
  5. Develop an organizing recruiting system that extends into major universities around the country;
  6. Build a coherent, year-long program of local 1-2-3 day leadership trainings in SE Michigan;
  7. Assist in fundraising both for Harriet Tubman and its affiliates.

Responsibilities: 

  • Trains organizing staff to conduct campaigns, recruit new leaders, build relationships with potential allies, and do face-to-face research on powerful players in the region;
  • Conducts 20-25 one-on-one meetings every week;
  • Provides regular leadership and organizing training in the principles and strategies of congregation-based community organizing for clergy/institutional leaders, parents/students and others;
  • Assists leaders to define vision and goals for their teams or organization, and trains leaders to act in the public arena with measurable impact;
  • Works with leaders to plan large community action meetings at the local and regional levels.
  • Integrates civic engagement into the full life of each staff member and organization;

  • Supports fundraising through member institutions, foundations, and individual donors;
  • Implements Tubman’s communications strategy and other administrative duties as required;
  • Meets weekly with the Executive Director and fellow staff members to plan and evaluate work progress (the weekly written report forms the basis of these weekly meetings).

Qualifications

Tubman organizers approach their work with a deep sense of calling to help people become leaders and change agents in their communities.  An organizer must come to the work with skills that must be developed over the life of his/her career:

•  Ability to connect to, engage with and inspire community members across all sorts of differences,
   including religion, race, gender, age, language, class and life experiences.
•  Strong interpersonal skills; desire and capacity to build relations with people in the church
   social hall, at the neighborhood meeting, on the street corner, in the school or market, etc.
•  Facility working with urban communities, communities of color, faith institutions, agency directors,
   school administrators.
•  Solid understanding of one's own life and/or faith journey and a strong sense of power.
•  Working understanding of public and private institutions at local, statewide, and national levels.
•  Capacity to think strategically and analytically about social, economic, cultural, and political
   issues affecting a community.
•  Courage and capacity to inspire leaders and teams to take action on issues, to create campaigns,
   to create organizations and build power.
•  Creativity:  the organizations, campaigns, actions all take creativity and courage.
•  Desire to learn and grow a significant public life, openness to challenge.
•  Ability to work both as part of a strong staff team and independently.
•  Strong writing skills (fund development, reports, communication, press releases).
•  Experiential understanding of different organizing strategies, incl. community, labor, voter.

Minimum Qualifications:

Candidates must have 5 years experience in direct action/leadership focused organizing, a college degree, valid driver’s license and car.  Experience in cutting issues, promoting actions and campaigns, developing teams of leadership are essential.  Experience in both individual-based and institution-based organizing is desired.

Compensation

Starting salary $55,000 - 68,000 plus benefits. 



COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, REBUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY IN DETROIT (RCSD)


Detroit, Michigan
United States

Supervisor:
Level of Education Required:

General Information

TO APPLY

Responsibilities

  1. Develop and strengthen RCSD (outreach and action) teams at 15-25 institution members of RCSD, working toward excellence and long term sustainability;
  2. Implement  the curriculum and plan for leadership development, outreach, involvement in issue campaigns of the RCSD teams;
  3. Ensure that  that each RCSD team is engaged in regional or city-wide trainings, strategy sessions, actions and rallies;
  4. Assist in fundraising both for RCSD and for Tubman’s staffing of RCSD.

Qualifications

College Degree.  2 years organizing experience, including sustained supervisory experience.  Experience working in congregations and other institutions.  Reliable transportation.  Valid driver’s license.  Writing skills.

Compensation

salary commensurate w/ qualifications and experience