Michigan Families Fair Care: Michigan 7th Regional Organizing Director

Michigan Families for Fair Care:
Michigan 7th Regional Organizing Director

Location:

MI

Salary: $60,000 to $65,000/year (Yearly)

Company:
Michigan Families for Fair Care

Department:
Organizing

Employment Type:

Non-Profit

Contact: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

Application Instructions:
Email resume and cover letter to

Job Description:

Job Title:

Regional Organizing Director

Location:

Michigan's 7th Congressional District

Reports To:

State Director

Salary: $60,000 - $65,000 / year

Benefits package

Time Commitment/Classification:
Full Time/Exempt

About the Position:

We are looking for a strategic Regional Organizing Director to organize the outreach and events program in Michigan's 7th Congressional District that will mobilize grassroots and grasstops organizations, community leaders, and constituents on key issues to hold Rep. Tom Barrett accountable for his economic policies.

The Regional Organizing Director understands organizing strategy and tactics to garner news media attention, takes a creative approach to recruiting constituents and key messengers and can communicate effectively with various stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

As Regional Organizing Director, you will:

• Collaborate with the rest of the team to design and execute a successful community outreach program, including quickly mobilizing around rapid response moments and identifying storytellers and local leaders in the community willing to speak out.
• Maintain a drumbeat of accountability tactics and actions in your district, from press conferences to rallies, stunts, and town halls, to garner press coverage, including overseeing all logistical needs.
• Recruit constituents who are impacted by our issues and comfortable sharing their personal stories to be part of programming and media opportunities.
• Use your creativity to utilize the best and most effective offline and online organizing tactics in order to build and maintain relationships with not just diverse communities, but also partners.
• Regularly draft and post across social media platforms to hold Rep. Tom Barrett accountable, amplify storytellers, and spread the word about your organizing activities in collaboration with the Communications Director and Executive Director.
• Crowd build for events in the district.
• Track and monitor twenty-four-hour news cycles in the event there is an opportunity for rapid response action.
• Support outreach to members of Congress and other officials, local advocacy organizations, key stakeholders, and other non-profit organizations on the district level.
• Support press, additional social media, website, and other digital programs for your district as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

About you:

• You are proactive and have exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• You are an effective communicator capable of coordinating between various stakeholders and making policy and politics relatable and accessible to working people.
• You are passionate about progressive politics and are committed to working towards more inclusive and equitable public policy.
• You have prior field / organizing experience working on a political or issue-based campaign.
• You have experience working with communities of color and the working class.
• You are calm under pressure and nimble in a changing campaign environment.
• You have experience building and recruiting for in-person events that garner earned media attention.
• You have an inclusive, community-first, and deeply human approach to organizing.
• You are willing and able to travel.

In addition, it would be a bonus if you:

• Have a familiarity with progressive economic issues and framing.
• Have a connection to the state, the district and its communities, such as having lived or worked there.
• Have worked on Congressional electoral or issue advocacy campaigns.

Benefits and compensation:
Salary range: $60,000 - $65,000 / year