Job Description
LOCATION: Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, or Washington County
THE ROLE
The State Organizing Director is responsible for the development and execution of a capacity-building plan which will take our organizing and advocacy to the next level of scale and impact. As part of the Statewide Organizing Team, the State Organizing Director will ensure we have a solid ongoing presence of volunteers ready to mobilize in targeted locations to impact state policy implementation and elections and, where relevant, local policy decisions and elections through school-based, and in some cases community-based parent engagement. The State Organizing Director ensures the organizing plan strategically creates an infrastructure capable of long-term support of organizers who are working directly with parents and teachers to authentically develop and engage leaders and advocates. Moreover, the organizing plan must also be strategically aligned to achieve our state’s local impact goals.
The State Organizing Director shepherds the strategy and plans to build long-term, grassroots infrastructure capable of executing issue and electoral campaigns. The State Organizing Director works with affiliate leadership to engage with parent leaders, parents, and teachers, to identify barriers and challenges to implementing evidence-based state-level and district-level policies and working with affiliate communications staff to develop collateral to support parent and family engagement. The State Organizing Director also oversees the operation on the ground to implement the organizing plan from start to finish.
The State Organizing Director will supervise Organizers and support them to achieve metrics-based goals and ensure that the organizing staff has the coaching, training, and support they need to build robust teams.
The State Organizing Director will report to the National Organizing Director while acting in service to and in seamless coordination with the Oregon Executive Director to empower parents in supporting their own child’s education progress, engage with their child’s teacher and principal, and engage with policy leaders and elected officials to ensure policies are effective.
THE ORGANIZATION
Stand for Children is a unique catalyst for education equity and racial justice to create a brighter future for us all.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop, write, and implement a strategic and comprehensive, data-driven organizing plan that includes, but is not limited to:
- Empowering and supporting parents to influence real improvements in Oregon’s literacy rates and education policies based on community and school needs
- Build relationships with key school staff to authentically engage parents
- Build capacity to win as defined by the impact agenda’s direct impact, issue, and state and local electoral work, including school board races
- Identify strategic school-based or community-based tactics for capacity building that include, but are not limited to:
- Providing point-of-entry opportunities
- Door knocking for issue and voter IDs, voter persuasion, and GOTV
- List-building
- Phone and text banking for filling shifts, turnout, and relationship building
- Mobilizing for advocacy opportunities
- And other tactics as necessary
- Track and analyze performance; troubleshoot and problem solve; adjust plans and strategies, when necessary, in coordination and with approval of the Executive Director and National Organizing Director
Manage, develop, and train a team of organizers, leaders, and volunteers to implement an organizing plan including:
- Set SMART goals to meet the deliverables and milestones outlined in the organizing plan
- Manage staff for results, supporting them to achieve planned deliverables
- Identify potential leaders, supporters, and volunteers, and have the plan to engage and support their empowerment, including leadership training and opportunities to move them up the ladder of engagement
- Track progress on impact and organizing goals; provide analysis on performance and implement plans to maximize results
- Recruit, train, manage, develop staff and hire staff when needed with the approval of the Executive Director and National Organizing Director
- Provide ongoing professional guidance and training to the organizing staff
Coalition and partnership building including:
- Identify, network, build relationships, and communicate with partners on the ground
- Attend events, and coalition meetings, and be present in the community as an organizational partner
- Manage coalition collaborative projects where applicable
- Represent the voice of Stand for Children in the community
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Passionate commitment to Stand for Children’s mission
- 6-8 years of organizing experience, at least half of which, includes managing direct reports and building volunteer capacity in diverse communities
- Excellent recruiter with a proven track record of being able to quickly build a pipeline of volunteers and develop leaders
- Ability to communicate a compelling and inspiring vision that will motivate others
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and problem solve
- Excellent organizational skills
- Knowledge of campaign strategy and implementation
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Proven self-starter, action-oriented, has a positive attitude and enjoys challenging work
- Ability to innovate and take responsibility
- Job does require travel within the state; flexible hours, including some weekends and evenings
- Full-time access to reliable transportation
- Ability to be in multiple locations in the course of a given day, the ability to transport items, and the ability to set up and take down meeting equipment (chairs, tables, projectors, screens, etc.); May require the ability to climb stairs
- Understanding Oregon’s educational policy landscape is a plus
- Spanish fluency is preferred
SALARY RANGE: $69,300 - $86,700; commensurate with experience. Generous benefits.