Family Organizer

Family Organizer Job Description

Are you passionate about building Black and Brown parent and youth power to ensure that historically underserved students in Oakland have access to a high-quality public education? Do you believe in the leadership and agency of parents and youth to be influential leaders in public education? Join us as a family organizer to partner with schools to find, train and coach parent and youth leaders so they can advocate effectively for equitable access to high-quality public schools.

Families in Action for Quality Education was founded in 2019 among leaders of the five largest and high performing East Oakland charter schools to protect access to quality public schools through elevating authentic parent and youth leadership. We recognized that we were suffering political losses that threatened our families’ access to high quality charter schools. We needed to act differently to get different results.

Four and a half years later, FIA has scaled its work to 45 schools, district and charter, and become a profound source of city-wide family power. FIA’s 500 parent and youth leaders lead campaigns in their schools and city to champion quality education, ensuring that underserved families disrupt inequities at the school and systems level and achieve policy and practice wins.

In partnership with Energy Convertors, Great School Voices and its school partners, FIA has become a force to be reckoned with in Oakland education.

This is a full-time position. FIA uses a hybrid model in our organization, meaning we have 3 in office work days and 2 remote work days per week, in addition to some in-person and virtual evening meetings.

In this role, you will report to and receive weekly coaching from the Senior Organizing Consultant in order to:

• Recruit, train and lead a team of parent/community leaders to develop school-based parent-led organizing campaigns to empower parents, youth and teachers to act in the public arena to promote and defend their interests and values.
• Use 1:1 meetings to build relationships and identify parent/community leaders. Use a variety of outreach methods to recruit leaders and allies through including school events, house visits, and house meetings.
• Partner with school leaders and family coordinators to develop family leadership and build sustainable structures to channel parent leadership within schools to accomplish goals such as increased literacy outcomes.
• Partner with school leaders and college access teams to develop student leadership and build sustainable structures to channel student leadership within schools to accomplish goals such as increasing college readiness outcomes.
• Develop the knowledge and understanding of family leaders in education data, the Oakland public education landscape, and the principles and practices of community organizing.
• Develop, lead, and manage education issue campaigns and community collaborations including community meetings, public events and demonstrations, voter education and mobilization initiatives, and other forms of civic engagement.
• Develop organizing project plans and use  for project management
• Input and analyze weekly organizing data and use it to drive weekly and monthly priorities.

• Build strong coalition relationships among school personnel, diverse community organizations stakeholders, neighborhood leaders and elected officials.
• Use new media, apps and social media organizing including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Canvasser app, blogs and email outreach to enhance the on-the-ground work.
• Perform other duties as required to support the work of the organization as a whole.

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package including health care and an employer-matched 401K plan. Annual compensation range is from $50,000 - $80,000 and is dependent on the candidate’s experience and demonstrated impact.

FIA takes professional development seriously and invests in development. New organizers receive robust onboarding including training…