Community Organizer

# Community Organizer

MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT(Merrimack Valley Project)###

Job Description
** Job Type:
** Full-Time
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* Reports To:

** Executive Director
** ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW:
** Founded in 1989, Merrimack Valley Project is a multi-faith, multi-racial community organization focused on organizing leaders and campaigns for racial, social and economic justice in the Merrimack Valley and beyond. Most recently, these have included preventing the closure of Holy Family Hospitals in Haverhill and Methuen while protecting over 1,600+ jobs, and playing a critical role in successful statewide campaigns to increase the state minimum wage, protecting rideshare drivers, and winning passage of a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

Today, MVP has grown to over 35+ member groups across the region. MVP places a strong emphasis on developing the capacity of faith communities to act on their commitments to social justice, and is part of a growing faith-and-values-based organizing movement in America. We are affiliated statewide and nationally with Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN) and Faith in Action.
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* ABOUT THE ROLE:

** Merrimack Valley Project is looking to hire a Community Organizer who is ready to build lasting people power and the movement. Working with new and existing organizing teams, the Community Organizer will develop community members to become extraordinary agents of change in their community, identifying grassroots members with an appetite for leadership. We are looking for someone who is not satisfied with the status quo, who is ready to develop Merrimack Valley leaders to vision and build the world as it should be and will strive continuously to learn more, to be in deeper relationships to move us toward social, racial and economic justice.
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* JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

**** Congregational and Community Leadership Development –
*** Build 3-4 strong organizing teams, one being an organizational core strategy team, with 8 to 15 leaders on each team
* Build relationships with new and existing community leaders through intentional 1:1’s (12-15+ per week) and short check-ins on a weekly basis
* Organize for and prepare agendas, materials and relevant research for organizing committee meetings, actions and 1:1s
* Organize at least 1-3 actions per year with their committees
* Have a leadership development plan for your leaders and organizing committees
* Support organizing and the preparation for organization-wide priority actions, fundraisers and events
* Support and build out coalition work that is in alignment with MVP’s vision
** Structural Development –
*** Lead organization wide trainings and create training materials
* Attend and actively participate in weekly Staff-Meetings/Staff Development, strategic planning meetings, facilitating meeting where needed
* Attend and actively participate in our state, Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN), and national, Faith in Action (FIA), organizations including attending staff meetings, trainings, retreats or events when appropriate
** Fundraising, Data and Administrative –
*** Support the research and grant writing process (1-2 grants/per month)
* Invite leaders and community members to become donors and/or monthly sustainers
* Build relationships with and set meetings with funders
* Provide written content for quarterly newsletter as needed; coordinating with and collecting written material from leaders organizing committees
* Create, prepare and print materials for training sessions, printing handouts, technology and room set-up, prep flip charts, etc.
* Help maintain outreach, event and leadership development data lists up to date working with Office Manager using internal systems and database
** Other –
*** Meet weekly with the Executive Director for one-on-one coaching, development, supervision, and project support
* Prepare a weekly staff report and quarterly work plan
* Respond daily to emails, phone calls or text messages
* Hold and document a knowledge of the issues, challenges, history and political environment of Merrimack Valley communities
* Develop and document a power analysis of the political, economic and religious leaders and structures of…