Community Organizing Manager

3 weeks ago

Oakland, United States Alameda County Community Food Bank Full time

Are you an experienced government and nonprofit relationship-builder seeking to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of Alameda County residents?

If so, Alameda County Community Food Bank could be looking for you as our next Community Organizing Manager.

Our systems advocacy work centers most impacted people in our community, including in partnership with our network of 400 community based organizations as well as neighbors, volunteers and other advocates. We strive to cultivate trust, build awareness, and mobilize our staff and larger community to take collective action and transform the root causes of hunger. The Community Organizing Manager is responsible for working with the Community Organizer and our whole team: to build narrative and culture shifts that support bottom-up leadership development and power-building in the East Bay.

Reporting to the Director of Policy and Partnerships, this role works to:

- Lead community leadership development strategy.
- Guide and support grassroots advocacy org partnership development.
- Build and deepen partnerships and collaborations with additional locally-rooted, values-aligned and issue-intersecting grassroots advocacy organizations.
- Collaborate with the Policy and Partnerships team (including the local/state/federal policy advocacy staff) and partner departments on voter engagement and supporting grassroots policy advocacy.
- Work with partners and coalitions to push for public sector accountability in policy implementation.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Team Leadership & Organizing Strategy
- Develop and deploy ACCFB’s organizing strategy in alignment with the org-wide strategic plan;
- maximize community participation in efforts to inform and advance the Food Bank’s policy agenda.
- Collaborate with the Director of Policy, Senior Policy Advocate and Government Relations Officer to
- ensure that ACCFB’s organizing strategy is aligned to legislative priorities and org goals for positively
- engaging the public sector.
- Lead the evaluation of organizing, mobilizing, and engagement strategies and campaigns — define
- and track success metrics, communicate findings and implement improvements.
- Identify and cultivate mutually supportive partnerships with other organizations and coalitions that
- are doing similar organizing and mobilizing work to support our policy agenda and voter engagement
- and education efforts.
- Provide supervision, leadership and mentorship to the Community Organizer; offering ongoing
- feedback and opportunities for growth and professional development.
- Partner with the Director of Policy and Partnerships to uplift community voice and to share key
- insights with other teams, including Leadership Team, and to facilitate follow up conversations and
- connections as needed.

Mobilize Community Support For Our Policy Agenda
- Develop and execute organizing campaigns that grow the number of community members, clients,
- volunteers, member agencies, donors and staff who engage as community advocates.
- Develop and execute advocacy campaigns to mobilize community advocates to take action in support
- of ACCFB’s policy priorities.
- Cultivate and support internal staff engagement with advocacy events to help connect the dots between advocacy
- and achieving our mission.

Mobilize Community Support For Our Policy Agenda (Duties & Responsibilities Continued)
- Lead the development of events, outreach materials, and trainings that support organizing and
- mobilizing advocates.
- Ensure broad community engagement with Food Bank advocacy events such as Hunger Action Day,
- Hunger Action Month, voter education and engagement, and other policy initiatives.
- In collaboration with the Government Relations Officer, provide opportunities for community members to
- engage with elected officials, to establish and maintain productive dialogue with elected officials

Get Out The Vote
- Develop and execute the Food Bank’s non-partisan voter engagement and education campaigns.
- Support the Director of Policy and Partnership to ensure that ACCFB is compliant with all laws and
- regulations governing 501c3 engagement with lobbying, advocacy and especially related to
- elections.

All other duties as assigned.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**

Required Competencies
- Minimum 5-7 years of social justice organizing experience; demonstrated ability to develop and lead
- successful organizing and mobilizing campaigns that include multiple modes of engagement.
- At least 3 years’ leadership experience, developing and executing organizing strategy as well as
- motivating, training, and supervising at least one direct report.
- Proven project management skills, including ability to manage multiple priority projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated success in growing and developing an organized base of members, constituents, or
- community members to achieve organizational goals.
- Skilled facilitator and trainer;

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