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Lead Organizer
4 months ago
**LA Voice Lead Organizer**
**Organization**:
Our diverse and experienced team works with communities across the county to create a Los Angeles with racial equity and abundant life for all.
**Position Summary**:
An LA Voice Lead Organizer:
- Provides strategic leadership on a collaborative team with fellow lead organizers and the Director of Organizing, co-creating and implementing long term plans for building county-wide power for racial and economic justice in alignment with LA Voice’s organization-wide strategy.
- Demonstrates a disciplined focus on intentional leadership through 1:1 conversations— identifying interests, values, potential leadership, and inviting grassroots members/leaders into meaningful roles in the public arena
- Recruits, develops, and supports grassroots leaders to exercise power for social change through organization, and team structure development — listening, building relational power, identifying issues, training leaders, and organizing actions with policy-makers and decision makers at local, countywide, and state levels.
- Builds intentional relationships with clergy and religious/spiritual leaders: identifying interests and challenges in congregations, inviting clergy into strategic leadership exploring how LA Voice membership meets congregational needs and constructing strategies for congregational development.
- Manages at least one Community Organizer and supports their growth and development
**Essential Functions (to include, but not limited to)**:
- Build 1:1 relationships with congregational leaders across a wide geography
- Organize up to twelve local organizing committees at member congregations
- Recruit new congregations to LA Voice
- Develop and conduct training on effective community organizing: leadership, power, research meetings, team building, mobilization, power analysis, voter engagement, coalitions, structural racism, storytelling, one-to-ones, etc.
- Develop others’ ability to teach the aforementioned skills to fellow volunteers.
- Train and support grassroots leaders in LA Voice collective campaign work, including strategic goal setting, preparing leaders for visits to advocate with elected officials, 100% voting congregations, and bringing their community members into actions, press conferences, voter work, etc.
- Lead work with partner organizations and coalitions toward shared goals
- Manage, train and develop at least one Community Organizer on the team
- Lead grassroots members in developing a long term agenda and plan including the development and execution of campaigns
**Qualifications Required**:
- Minimum five years experience in community organizing
- Driven, self-disciplined and flexible
- Group leadership skills; track record that includes nurturing, managing, and guiding teams of people successfully toward shared goals
- Facility working with clergy and people of faith from different communities
- Effective interpersonal and relational skills; self-reflective and hungry for growth
- Experience effectively managing and developing skills of past staff team members
- Demonstrated success developing and leading organizing campaigns to win tangible benefits for the community. Commitment and track record of bridging across differences-including race, faith, and life experience
-in order to nurture a staff team, an organization, and a county of belonging.
- CA driver’s license and access to a reliable automobile (with at minimum, liability insurance).
**Other Possible Qualifications**:
- Knowledge of and experience organizing in Los Angeles County
- More than six years of impactful community organizing
- Fluency in Spanish or other language relevant to our organizing
- Experience doing integrated voter engagement, including canvassing, phone banking, and/or using PDI
- Experience organizing with people who have been incarcerated, people without immigration documents, or people experiencing homelessness/housing displacement/severe rent burden
- Life experience with incarceration, being without immigration documents, or homelessness/housing displacement/severe rent burden
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or other advanced coursework
**Compensation and Benefits**:
- This is a full-time, salaried position.
- The job includes regular evening work and some weekend work. The role requires frequent travel within LA County to meet with grassroots leaders, in addition to weekly staff meetings at our offices in Downtown LA.
- Salary is competitive for the region and based on experience and demonstrated capacities, in a range from $70,000-$95,000. LA Voice’s compensation structure was developed from best practices in equitable and transparent compensation, and includes a generous benefits package including matching 401(k); 15 days paid vacation increasing to 20 after three years of service and 25 after five years (plus holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year); and medical, dental, and vision insurance.
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