Education Lead Organizer

Position Overview:

Under the general supervision of the Education Equity Policy and Strategy Director, the Education Lead Organizer (ELO) will be committed to ensuring that residents have a voice and leadership in addressing racial justice issues related to education and public policy in Monterey County. The ELO is committed to effectively engage multiple partners to advance a racial equity framework with policy or systems change outcomes, and assumes a high level of responsibility for connecting people from diverse constituency groups within the community around education related issues.

The ELO is also responsible for lifting up the intersection of all BHCMC work with the education work.

The ELO is the staff responsible for supporting all organizers and interns focused on education. The ELO will be primarily focused on supporting the current base building and healing-informed organizing within education as well as its expansion/growth. The ELO has high-level skills and experience in community organizing, project management, group facilitation, group development, and conflict resolution. The ELO will be the connector for organizing work and the racial equity for systems change work.

• Supervise organizers in Salinas and South County as they coordinate and facilitate the growth and evolution of their resident committees.
• Ensure all education organizing and base building work across Monterey County is implemented (currently engaged in: Salinas, Peninsula, Soledad and Greenfield).
• Support the development of strategies with organizers.
• Support base-building and healing-informed organizing capacity of organizers and interns.
• Support the development of each education resident committee strategy chart and
• Support organizers to develop leadership pathway opportunities to increase resident engagement in shift policies and practices.
• In collaboration with Directors support personal and professional leadership development of education organizers.

• Coordinate, convene, and facilitate the Education Equity and Justice Action Team composed of education organizers, leaders, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Support the Education Equity Action Team with strategy building, cross-team capacity building, and communication.
• Support the Education Equity and Justice Team to embody the work of Dismantling the School to the Prison Pipeline and build Black and Brown Solidarity and Power.
• Identify opportunities to link the BHC Action Teams to each other and to external partners.
• Maintain progress of Action Team and resident committee policy and systems change goals.
• Use platform to monitor evaluation/progress of the Action Teams and support learning and evaluation goals in partnership Directors.
• In collaboration with Directors, play a leadership role in the statewide coalitions.

• Cultivate and maintain working relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders (residents, CBO's, government, funders, etc.) in Monterey County toward supporting the implementation of an inclusive decision-making culture within education.
• Play a role in external communications regarding Education Equity and Justice events and initiatives as needed.

• In collaboration with the Education Equity Policy and Strategy Director, support in engaging and building capacity of system leaders in modifying practices, policies and culture to advance racial equity and justice.
• In collaboration with Directors support the development of capacity building trainings, offer analysis to support shift towards equitable budgets and decision
• Support the development of opportunities for expanding knowledge and expertise in areas related to Action Team issues, as needed.

• Maintain a working knowledge of racial equity practices to engage system leaders in modifying practices to advance racial equity and justice.
• Engage a framework for understanding and disrupting structural bias and inequities and actively apply it to the work in the community.

Other duties as…