Housing Justice Community Organizer

New Virginia Majority•Richmond, VA

2d•$46,000 - $49,000•Onsite

About The Position

New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We seek conscious and skilled individuals with a deep commitment to racial and economic justice to join our team. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply. New Virginia Majority is looking to hire a full-time community organizer who will recruit, engage, activate and retain members, develop leaders, build community-based leadership teams, conduct political education training to, and execute campaign strategy.

Requirements

Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
Experience with grassroots organizing, preferably in immigrant communities or communities of color.
Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines; able to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy.
Self-motivated and works well both independently and on a team.
Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects.
Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
Driver’s license and access to a car.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships and identify and develop leaders into clear membership roles.
Timely and aggressive follow up with leads generated by field efforts including one-on-one meetings, house visits and other methods of grassroots outreach.
Manage regular membership meetings with a standing agenda and supporting new leaders to facilitate meetings geared towards peer engagement and immediate activation.
Create actions, training and mobilization opportunities in order to activate members and activists.
Mobilize and track engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in the database.
Develop the political consciousness of the affiliate organizations’ leaders through popular education, reflection, leadership development and developing appropriate educational materials.
Provide support to leaders.
Participate in campaign development, strategizing and implementation.
Participate in building campaign coalitions and key relationships with campaign-related allies.
Perform other duties as required.