Job Opportunities
SPRINGFIELD NO ONE LEAVES/NADIE SE MUDE Community Organizer
Type of position: 25-hr/week @$20/hr position as funding allows, pay may be higher depending on experience and could become full-time after 6 months, some nights and weekends required.
General Description: SNOL is seeking a new community organizer for our Campaigns. The Community Organizer will seek to organize tenants to build all types of tenant power along with our homeowners to organize resistance to displacement caused by impending gentrification. The Community Organizer will work closely with other SNOL Staff and the SNOL Director to carry out campaigns and advance the vision of SNOL.
Applicants should be self-motivated; have a strong work ethic; hold a passion for building power of low-income and working class communities and communities of color; and is committed to organizing to address root causes of inequality and eradicating system of oppression. SNOL embraces a collective organizing model to achieve our campaign goals. Applicants should have a strong ability to work as a team. Applicants must have been directly affected by the foreclosure crisis, housing injustice, gentrification, displacement or homelessness and must have access to transportation to apply. Please send resume to jobs@springfieldnooneleaves.org. Bilingual candidates strongly encouraged to apply.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Coordinate, plan and implement door-to-door outreach to all types of tenants and in large tenant buildings and Homeowner’s facing foreclosure.
• Plan, facilitate and debrief regular tenant organizing meetings
• Organize meetings with residents, including one-on-ones and group meetings in the community, to support all types of tenants in organizing campaigns to assert their rights and fight against displacement, foreclosure and/or bad living conditions, evictions, etc.
• Identify tenant leaders from the base and support them in developing leadership and organizing skills, take on leadership roles, and encourage them to participate in the SNOL’s Movement Leaders Academy.
• Research key targets and displacement trends for all different Tenant campaigns and develop campaign strategy to defend against displacement and advance all types of tenant’s rights with all staff and the director.
• Participate in media work; write press releases, coordinate interviews with members, build relationships with media representatives. Prioritize the voice of members when representing our campaigns to the media.
• Participate in grassroots fundraising campaigns and support SNOL’s Grant Writer when necessary.
• Participate in larger coalition work: attend coalition meetings, follow up on tasks that arise from meetings, and report back to the organizing staff and the Director.
• Recruit Western Mass residents to be active members of SNOL.
Supervision & Training:
• Meet regularly with the Staff and the Director of SNOL.
• Meet regularly with current organizing staff for support, training and planning.
• Attend leadership trainings, political discussion groups, and activities and conferences for leadership and professional development.
• Participate in the National Renter’s Rights Committee calls with the National Homes for All Campaign and the Statewide Homes for All Massachusetts Coalition.
Necessary experience, skills and qualities:
• At Least 2+ years experience in community organizing, paid or unpaid.
• Has a strong analysis of root causes of economic inequality and a commitment to organizing to end classism, sexism, racism, homophobia and other systems of oppressions.
• Bi-lingual Spanish/English fluency strongly preferred (commitment to enroll in language courses will be considered)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to use the internet, Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Drive, and familiarity using databases. Additional experience with website maintenance and/or social media helpful.
People of color, women, low-income and working-class, LGBTQ, and differently-abled people are strongly encouraged to apply.