Director, Grassroots Engagement and Organizing

3 weeks ago

Houston, United States Good Reason Houston Full time
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Director, Grassroots Engagement & Organizing | Policy & Advocacy

Job Description

About Good Reason Houston

Founded in 2018 through a joint effort of the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston Endowment, and Kinder Foundation, Good Reason Houston exists to create a future where every child in every neighborhood of Houston has access to a world class public education that prepares them to thrive in the Houston of tomorrow. We believe that all Houston students deserve an excellent education, and work to reshape the Houston education landscape by inspiring hope, possibility, and action as we work towards our mission of growing the number of students learning in great public schools.

 

Good Reason Houston builds awareness of, advocates for, and advises school systems on measures aimed to improve the quality of education available to all. Today the organization partners with 25 public school systems that collectively serve 700,000 students across 900 public schools in the Houston region. We seek to cultivate a shared regional vision for educational quality, to build the capacity for change required within districts and the greater Houston community, and to foster collective ownership to support student-level results for kids across our city.

 

For more information, please visit www.goodreasonhouston.org.   

About the Role

Good Reason Houston’s Director of Grassroots Engagement & Organizing is critical in building a robust grassroots movement that demands public schools succeed in preparing students for postsecondary success.  The Director will organize, engage, and mobilize grassroots stakeholders to hold Houston public school systems accountable for growing and sustaining more great public schools.  The Director will be as equally motivated and passionate about being out in the field, directly engaging with parents and stakeholders, as they are by building the needed infrastructure to develop, maintain and sustain a growing movement.  

 

This position will also support the work of our affiliated organization, Houstonians for Great Public Schools, by building grassroots electoral pressure that will increase the number of great public schools.  

 

Primary Responsibilities 

 

Grassroots Stakeholder Engagement & Mobilization

  • Identify, recruit, develop, and organize parents and other grassroots stakeholders around public education issues
  • Develop and execute strategies for parent and grassroots stakeholder engagement
  • Develop relationships with grassroots community leaders.  
  • Facilitate community meetings that build awareness, provide training and development of parents and grassroots stakeholders on public education issues
  • Provide ongoing training and support to expand capacity - giving families tools and methods for voicing their collective priorities to policymakers
  • Develop and lead a parent movement to network and organize parent leadership teams across the city  
  • Develop and manage a parent education program to promote greater understanding of public school quality in Houston

 

External Leadership & Communications 

  • Coordinate, as needed, with Good Reason Houston’s policy personnel and/or communication personnel to prepare talking points, collateral, and other written materials that highlight Good Reason Houston’s parent and grassroots efforts and successes  
  • Prepare content for communications to a grassroots audience, e.g. social media and advocacy materials
  • Create presentation materials, content, and resources needed for parent leadership development
  • May represent Good Reason Houston and its interests in education, civic, and community settings

 

Houstonians for Great Public Schools (Houston GPS) 

  • Mobilize an activated and effective base of grassroots stakeholders to hold Houston school systems and leaders accountable to growing and sustaining more great public schools
  • Coordinate with Good Reason Houston’s public policy personnel to organize grassroots advocacy for local and state-level policy initiatives aligned with Good Reason Houston priorities 
  • Mobilize stakeholders to communicate with elected officials and advocate on aligned matters
  • Plan and lead actions such as rallies and other similar events
  • Develop parent and community leaders to participate in endorsement activities

 

Other responsibilities as assigned.  

 

Our Team

Along with our core beliefs, the traits listed below were generated by the team to capture what it looks like in action when operating at our best. 

We embrace and drive change.

We are flexible and fierce.

We operate with a bold bias toward action.

We fess up when we mess up.

We dare greatly and engage humbly.  

We grow as we go.

We turn up the love when we turn up the heat. 

We root for each other. 

Good Reason Houston staff are expected to support this organizational culture by promoting and adhering to these team traits to maintain an open and cohesive work environment & relationships.

Qualifications and Key Attributes

  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree 
  • Minimum of five years of demonstrated grassroots community organizing experience, with an emphasis on base building
  • Experience working with advocacy software preferred
  • Strong relational skills and ability to connect, engage, and inspire community members
  • Flexible work schedule with the ability and willingness to work nights and weekends
  • Genuine excitement for the mission of Good Reason Houston and strong core belief that every child should have access to a great public school

      The ideal candidate will believe in: 

  • Students First.  School leaders must prioritize students and student academic outcomes in all decisions.  
  • Transparent and Accurate Measurement of Student Achievement. School performance and student academic achievement must be transparent and easily understood by parents, students, and communities. 
  • Accountability.  Adults and systems must be held accountable for student academic success.  School leaders must use academic accountability data to make decisions to improve student achievement.
  • Immediate & Persistent Action.  School leaders must take immediate and persistent action to improve D and F-rated public schools.  

Working at Good Reason Houston

Good Reason Houston offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The starting salary range for this position is $96,000 annually. New hires are offered a salary depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. Benefits offered include 401(k) (automatic 3% employer contribution), life, medical, dental and vision insurance packages. Each employee accrues 35 paid time off days per calendar year in addition to the 19 paid holidays per year. Good Reason Houston is an office-based organization, but allows for virtual work on Mondays and Fridays.

Apply at www.GoodReasonHouston.org/Careers 


 

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