Associate Community Organizer

The DART Center • Salina, 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 the Central Kansas Interfaith Justice Organization, you’ll learn how to bring together our area's diverse faith community to address the root causes of serious community problems. The Central Kansas Interfaith Justice Organization 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

• 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.
• Must live in or be willing to relocate to Pottawatomie, Riley, Geary, Dickinson, or Saline County.

Nice To Haves

• Fluent speakers of Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships of trust with everyday people of faith.
• 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 10% after one year of employment – 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
• Relocation assistance
• 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