Position: Associate Director of Community Organizing
Location: Los Angeles office
Status: Full-time, exempt (40 hours per week)
ABOUT CNVP
The California Native Vote Project’s (CNVP) mission is justice and self-determination for Native American communities through multigenerational power building, organizing, and civic engagement. CNVP is the first-of-its-kind statewide effort to engage Native American communities across dozens of counties to build political power through an integrated voter engagement strategy, which centers community organizing and braids on top of that other strategies to achieve people-powered movements — including political education, leadership development; voter education, registration and protections; policy advocacy; research; and Native candidate preparation.
Position Overview
The Associate Director of Organizing will assist in directing the next phase of the CNVP’s organizing strategy. This position requires someone with significant political and/or community organizing, strategic campaign development, and supervisory experience. This role, in collaboration with senior leadership, will serve as a key decision maker in strategies for Southern California organizing and campaign work; lead on projects and initiatives; and represent CNVP at partner and coalition tables. This position will also build out organizing training and mentorship programs for both internal and external audiences. This role will have direct reports. The position is full-time and exempt.
Essential Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and evaluate an organizing strategic plan in collaboration with all the teams.
- Act as a spokesperson for CNVP with allied organizations, community groups, and media.
- Co-create with staff and deliver Indigenous values-based organizing curriculum to internal and external audiences.
- Lead planning, strategy, and implementation of organizing campaigns in partnership with senior leadership team.
- Develop political and community support for organizing campaigns in accordance with 501(c)3 guidelines.
- Lead the evaluation of organizing, mobilizing, and engagement strategies and campaigns.
- Support a culture of excellence, teamwork, inclusiveness, and accountability.
- Create, maintain, evaluate, and adapt a structure that informs the necessary teams of impacted community members' experiences, priorities, and concerns.
- Provide supervision, leadership, and mentorship to the organizing staff.
- Coordinate increases in membership base.
- Develop uniform standards for review and evaluation of campaigns.
- Ensure the tracking, reporting, and analysis of all membership activity.
- Develop recommended budgets, allocate resources effectively, and plan and implement program activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range is $90-105K.
Please submit your cover letter and resume on the application form at https://canativevote.org/careers/ and indicate ‘Associate Director of Community Organizing’ under Position You’re Applying for.
Essential Requirements:
- Experience working with Native American communities and Tribal organizations preferred.
- At least three years of experience in campaigns, mobilizing, organizing, and running recruitment drives, plus two years supervisory experience with a non-profit organization.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Adept at leading and motivating workers in necessary struggles.
- Awareness of and proficiency with digital organizing communications technologies.
- Comfortable with leading and training staff around organizing skills.
- Experience with PDI and other organizing databases.
- Familiarity with strategic analytical tools and public engagement methods.
- Demonstrated success in growing and developing an organized base of members.
- Effective collaborator with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong and confident leadership; experience leading teams.
- Effective facilitating and organizing meeting skills.
- Excellent analytical and judgment skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and follow-through.
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks and projects.
- Strong verbal communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically.
- Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- California driver’s license and regular access to a 4-5 seat passenger car.
- Available to work flexible hours, including afternoons and occasional evening and weekend events.
- Ability to travel throughout the state as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with community organizing, action research, campaign strategy, curriculum development, alliance building, or policy.
- Proficiency with Apple computers.
Work Environment
Hybrid in-person (two days a week or possibly more based on need) and virtual, with some evening and weekends required. Some travel is also required.
Physical Demands
- Able to work on a computer for extended periods of time.
- Able to stand and walk for extended periods of time.
- Able to occasionally lift objects weighing up to twenty pounds.
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