Childcare Senior Organizer

About Community Change and Community Change Action:

Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partners, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence on the inside.

Our vision of a better world centers around the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on the care economy, economic freedom, state powerbuilding, and immigrant rights.

This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and freedom – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another, and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description: 

As the movement for child care continues to grow and strengthen, we seek a senior organizer to support the work of landscaping new states to add to our partner cohort. This role supports a collaborative project with two other national childcare allied organizations working together to create landscape assessments of the childcare ecosystem in several states. 

The Childcare Senior Organizer will support state-based organizing groups that want to join the childcare movement and have both a commitment to and orientation for base building. This role will support potential partners in strengthening their organizing infrastructure, focusing on base building, power building, and campaign work through coaching and training.

This role will primarily support organizations that are in more conservative states, and travel is required.

This is a 2-year flex position. 

Principal Responsibilities: 

The primary job responsibilities for this position will include: 

• Coaching state-based organizing groups that work on childcare. Coaching will include but is not limited to:
• Assessing the strengths and challenges that the organization faces in their childcare organizing work.
• Support and advise their current campaign(s) strategies and/or development of strategic campaign(s)
• Support partner’s base and power-building efforts related to the childcare movement
• For strategic campaigns and organizing support, connect partner organizations to internal Community Change resources or teams, like policy or communications.

• Discerning the level of coaching needed for each childcare partner. Some organizations will have a high level of organizing, base building, and campaign experience, while others will exhibit areas of growth in one or more of these areas. The responsibilities for this role include coaching organizations at different stages of expertise and building strategic interventions and plans to support them.
• The core priority for this role is to identify potential organizing and campaign partners and build and provide advice and technical support to strengthen childcare organizing, particularly in conservative states.
• Work with the leaders of individual organizing partners to strengthen their internal capacity to operationalize the systems and practices that provide foundational support for organizing work.
• Serve as a liaison within this collaborative project, working with the two national allied partners on the project, providing frequent updates across the project leads, and communicating with members of the philanthropic community. 
• Connecting new and potential partners to Community Change’s current strategies, including our national days of action like our annual Day Without Child Care, which will likely have at least 80 events nationwide in over 30 states this year.
• Draft memos and plans communicating the opportunities and needs of each state partner organization.
• Participate in and support a strong team culture where each person feels valued, there is accountability, there is celebration, clarity of purpose and strategy, and cohesion with team partners on a national strategy.
• Collaborate across teams at Community Change, including digital, communications, policy and advocacy, and electoral. 

Qualifications: 

• At least 5 years experience as an Organizing Director, Campaign Director or Executive Director at an organization where the primary theory of change is grassroots organizing. This can include leadership roles within a progressive political campaign, non-profit, or union.
• Senior-level understanding of organizing principles and experience implementing campaign strategies and tactics. Experience as the staff lead on several campaigns, ability to share lessons learned from those campaigns, and how you approached making challenging decisions.
• Demonstrated commitment to racial, gender, economic, and social justice along with worker and community leadership.
• Experience with training organizing fundamentals and theory of organizing.
• Strong communication skills, specifically the ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Ability to assess project outcomes and present solutions for improving the project and its impact.
• Experience with collaborative decision-making and experience leading coalitions.
• Experience working with a regionally dispersed or remote team.
• An ability to juggle multiple projects and work in a fast-paced environment.
• A demonstrated commitment to meeting high standards and a history of getting things done despite obstacles.
• Ambition, drive, and energy.
• The ability to speak and write in fluent Spanish is a plus.
• Experience with voter engagement and electoral organizing is a plus.

This position reports to: Economic Justice Campaign  Manager

Supervisory Responsibility: No

Salary Range: The annual salary range is  $95,000-100,000. This position is only funded for two years. Community Change also offers an excellent benefits package, which includes 4 weeks of annual paid vacation; additional paid holiday leave between December 24 and January 1 and a Summer break the week of July 4th; 8% employer contribution to retirement account after six months of employment (and 3% employer contribution for the first 6 months); and a choice of generous health insurance plans.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel approximately 6-8 times per year. While monthly travel is not expected year-round, candidates should be prepared for occasional periods of increased travel as needed, typically April-June and September-December.

Classification: Community Change recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is included in Community Change's bargaining unit and covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.

Location: This is a remote position.

Equal Opportunity: Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform. We strongly encourage the interest and applications of people of color, women, and people in the disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. Community Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Closing Date of Position: Open Until Filled

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