Community Organizer

Community Organizer

Location:

Richmond, VA

Type:
Full Time

Minimum Experience:

Entry Level

New Virginia Majority is Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization that builds power in working‑class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We seek conscious and skilled individuals with a deep commitment to racial and economic justice to join our team. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

• Build strong relationships and identify and develop leaders into clear membership roles. Timely and aggressive follow up with leads generated by field efforts including one‑on‑one meetings, house visits and other methods of grassroots outreach.
• Manage regular membership meetings with a standing agenda and support new leaders to facilitate meetings geared towards peer engagement and immediate activation.
• Create actions, training and mobilization opportunities to activate members and activists.
• Mobilize and track engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in the database.
• Develop the political consciousness of the affiliate organizations’ leaders through popular education, reflection, leadership development and appropriate educational materials.
• Provide support to leaders.
• Participate in campaign development, strategizing, and implementation.
• Participate in building campaign coalitions and key relationships with campaign‑related allies.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
• Experience with grassroots organizing, preferably in immigrant communities or communities of color.
• Fluency in Spanish is preferred.
• Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
• Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines; able to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy.
• Self‑motivated and works well both independently and on a team.
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects.
• Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
• Driver’s license and access to a car.
• A minimum one‑year commitment to the position.

Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $46,000 – $49,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package.

NVM covers 100% of the individual cost and 75% of the family cost for medical, dental, life, and short‑term disability insurance for full‑time employees. Additional benefits include family and medical leave, a retirement program with employer match, accruable paid vacation and sick leave, and monthly transportation and cell phone allowances.

We are an equal opportunity employer.