Mayfair Coordinator - EMPUJE

Nonprofit

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Mayfair Coordinator - EMPUJE

SOMOS Mayfair

Full Time

August 20, 2026

USD $32.34 - $33.31 / hour

Paid Semi-Monthly

Civic Engagement, Community Development, Education, Family

The Mayfair Coordinator is part of SOMOS Mayfair programmatic strategy and will work across departments as needed to align programmatic strategy and opportunities. However, the Mayfair Coordinator functions as a community organizer and develops strong organizing campaigns and leadership in the predominantly immigrant community amongst neighborhood residents, youth, and parents with children in the Alum Rock School/East Side Union District. The Mayfair Coordinator works in the SOMOS Mayfair Community Organizing Department, whose purpose is to challenge governmental systems and build grassroots campaigns to end injustice and shift power, norms, and resources back towards the residents of Mayfair and East San Jose.

The Mayfair Coordinator reports directly to SOMOS Mayfair’s Community Organizing Manager and works alongside a team to develop strategies by people impacted by the issues, build immediate and long-term solutions and foster a spirit of hope and change amongst neighborhood residents, youth, and parents with children. The Mayfair Coordinator will work with the Community Organizing Program Manager to execute organizing strategies that will have an immediate impact on community leadership and create policy change across Mayfair, East San Jose and Santa Clara County.

The Coordinator will be responsible for collaborating with regional alliances/partnerships, coalitions, and working with stakeholders, including the Si Se Puede Collective partners to increase community voice, decision making, and advance campaigns.

The coordinator is expected to work and steward coalitions and align adult led campaigns to youth organizing campaigns and other intersectional aspects of the work.

Specifically, this position will focus on coordinating SOMOS Mayfair’s school based strategy and will organize Raza families from the Alum Rock School District/ East Side Union School District to increase opportunities, services and resources so students can lead and thrive.

This position will organize campaigns impacting but limited to issues around youth resources, academic success, cradle to career and changes in school policies that benefit the needs of multi-generation families through community organizing and policy change. The Coordinator will facilitate discussions to educate families on root causes to education and social injustice and coordinate workshops and meetings to ensure families are organized.

Coordinator will work with the organizing team to align campaigns and is expected to lead and sustain campaigns by organizing a robust leadership pipeline.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive leadership development strategy builds a strong base of leaders, core members, and supporters.
• Execute community outreach strategies, including one-on-one meetings, home visits, door knocking, phone banking, classroom and group presentations, community meetings, workshops, and community events, to engage Mayfair families, particularly parents of ARUSD students, and move them towards collective action.
• Conduct ongoing leadership development through mentorship, individualized leadership development plans, political education, and skill-building opportunities that identify community members' strengths, increase their leadership capacity, and remove barriers to participation.
• Ensure community leaders participate in the Mayfair Popular University (UPM) and other leadership, organizing, and advocacy training that strengthen their ability to lead campaigns and community initiatives.
• Facilitate organizing meetings, planning sessions, educational workshops, stakeholder meetings, direct actions, mobilizations, and community engagement activities alongside community leaders.
• Coordinate and implement community organizing campaigns to develop campaign strategies, outreach plans, messaging, educational materials, and communications that advance organizing goals and reflect community priorities.
• Coordinate organizing efforts across SOMOS Mayfair programs, EMPUJE, Sí Se Puede initiatives, and other organizing teams to ensure alignment in outreach, leadership development, messaging, strategic direction, and campaign implementation.
• Partner with the Program Manager and Director to develop organizing campaigns, community projects, strategic initiatives, and organizational priorities.
• Support leaders and community members in conflict resolution, collaborative problem-solving, and effective decision-making while fostering a healthy and accountable organizing culture.
• Coordinate the logistics for organizing activities and events, including meeting spaces, childcare, food, materials, volunteers, and contractor support to ensure…