Housing Policy Advocate

3 weeks ago


Portland, Oregon, United States Urban League of Portland Full time
Housing Policy Advocate

1000 Friends of Oregon is seeking a skilled Housing Policy Advocate to manage our grassroots housing advocacy campaign. The successful candidate will lead our efforts to pass an agenda of pro-housing priorities in the 2025 legislative session. We are partnering with local organizations to weave statewide and local organizing efforts to ensure that residentially zoned lands are development-ready, remove barriers to ownership options for middle housing, and revise building codes to allow shared utilities/connections for middle housing.

Key Responsibilities
  • Outreach to advocacy groups, home builders, and community groups around the state.
  • Create campaign materials and social media to be distributed by and through our partners.
  • Organize outreach to key legislators by constituents of the above groups through individual meetings, emails, and phone calls.
  • Create paid-for targeted social media aimed at key legislators.
  • Coordinate and produce a webinar for all legislators and their staff on the need for these funding and investment actions in the 2025 session.
  • Coordinate webinar presentations to subgroups/caucuses of the legislators.
  • Organize events with coalition partner organizations to build awareness and recruit volunteers for our pro-housing legislative push during the session.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Experience managing legislative or grassroots campaigns at the statewide or local level.
  • Strong ability to manage competing tasks and multiple requests from different individuals.
  • Event coordination experience, for virtual and in-person campaign events.
  • Strong public speaking, conflict resolution, and group facilitation skills.
  • Ability to organize partners from across the state and keep coalition partners well-informed during a busy session.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with 1000 Friends of Oregon, Oregon's land use system, and current land conservation and development issues and solutions.
  • Working relationships with mission-based organizations working on housing policy in Oregon.
  • Fluency (written and verbal) in a language other than English.

Compensation

1000 Friends of Oregon has $40,000 available for the budget (approximately 25 hrs/week at a rate of $40/hr).

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