Rural Strategies Organizer​/SW Oregon

Position: Rural Strategies Organizer Central / SW Oregon
Description

Job Title:

Organizing & Advocacy:
Rural Strategies Organizer Central / Southwest Oregon

Job Homebase:
Home Office in Oregon or SW Washington

Site requirement:
Remote

Reports To:

Strategic Partnerships Manager

Application Guidelines:

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, please apply or share interest promptly

A cover letter is required for consideration.

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism.

That's why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience - and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities.

Learn more about our commitment /equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB's 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:

As the Rural Strategies Organizer, you will contribute to the organization's success through cultivating long-term relationships with community organizations and building an ever growing base of community leaders in rural and small town Oregon. This role supports OFB's strategic priority to bridge the rural/urban divide and "build a bigger we" by expanding community power in rural and small-town communities. You will organize community leaders and strategic partners in key regions through increasing levels of commitment and a strategic partnerships continuum respectively.

From recruitment, to political education, non-partisan electoral organizing to leadership development, the Rural Strategies Organizer ensures that we are building political power to advance systems and policy change to end hunger and its root causes. The organizer works directly with the Strategic Partnerships Manager and in consultation with the Statewide organizing team to contribute to advancing a strategic movement building framework that increases the power of the Food Justice Movement across Oregon.

Success in this role will be measured by growth in community leadership, strengthened rural partnerships, and increased participation in organizing and advocacy efforts.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

* Develops and cultivates long-term, interdependent relationships with community-based organizations and leaders.

* Build and support a community leadership team that co-creates and implements grassroots and grasstops organizing strategies & tactics in support of our priority policy change campaigns.

* Engage community members and organizational partners in all aspects of our statewide field organizing program, including Ending Hunger Power Nights, 1 on 1s, Leader Camps, phone banks, relational organizing and other analysis, skills building and action tactics that increase levels of commitment and leadership.

* Lead and/or participate in programmatic elements of statewide field organizing program such as Ending Hunger Power Nights, community forums, and educational workshops and other community-building events & activities with a focus on building political power.

* Mobilize people to actions and events through phone banking, texting, canvassing (door-to-door), & digital organizing, etc.

* Participate in and support rapid response organizing efforts aligned with statewide campaigns and coalition priorities.

* Participate in co-leading organizing trainings within OFB, with our organizational partners or with community members.

* Represents Oregon Food Bank at various coalition spaces and tables aligned with our food justice priorities, including active participation, strategy contribution, and accountability to shared coalition goals.

* Identify leaders who want to participate in sharing their stories and…