Associate Community Organizer

The DART Center • Wichita, KS

7d • $52,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you angry about the injustices your community faces? Do you want to learn how to build the people power necessary to fight those injustices and make real, local change? As a community organizer with Justice Together, you’ll learn how to bring together our area's diverse faith community to address the root causes of serious community problems. Justice Together is a constituent-led, grassroots organization that is part of the Direct Action and Research Training Center (DART), one of the largest faith-based community organizing networks in the country. At DART, we stand against narratives of fear, scarcity, and division, and instead bring people together across lines of difference to take action off our shared values of abundance, love, hope, and promise. We believe that fighting for racial and economic justice is fundamental to our identity as people of faith, and we know that winning justice requires having power in the public arena. We've been organizing interfaith coalitions to build that power and win since 1982.

Requirements

• Passion for justice, and have acted on it.
• Ability to build strong relationships with people from all walks of life.
• Genuine respect for all faith traditions and excitement about uniting faith communities to live out their call to “do justice.”
• Comfortable working with people with whom they may have deep disagreements.
• Able to hold their own beliefs without being restricted by them.
• Willing to invest in overcoming differences and finding common ground.
• Ability to work some evenings and weekends to accommodate community members who work during the day.
• A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable car.
• Ability to travel for several training events throughout the year.

Nice To Haves

• May or may not be personally religious.
• Fluent speakers of Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Bring together the diverse faith community to address the root causes of serious community problems.
• Build relationships of trust with everyday people of faith through one-on-one conversations.
• Invite people to be part of something bigger than themselves, moving them from solitary struggle to the pursuit of collective power.
• Engage people in claiming their own powerful voice and developing their leadership.
• Guide individuals through conducting research into community problems.
• Organize direct action assemblies involving hundreds or even thousands of people to demand action and hold decision makers accountable.
• Recruit new congregations.
• Organize local trainings.
• Coordinate an annual fundraising drive.

Benefits

• Starting salary of $52,000
• Generous annual employer retirement contribution of 6% beginning immediately – no match required
• Health insurance reimbursement of $500/month for an individual and $750/month for a family
• Flexible scheduling
• Parental leave
• Generous vacation leave
• Mileage reimbursement
• Comprehensive, on-the-job training through the DART Organizers Institute

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed