Job Title: Leadership Development Organizer
Hours: Half-time (20 hrs per week); potentially ¾ or full-time, depending on funding received
Salary: $13750 for half-time
Benefits: Excellent benefits include generous vacation leave, sick leave and holiday time off. Mileage reimbursement is available when vehicle used for work. ***Health, dental, optical insurance, 403(b) retirement program, contingent on funding***
Reports To: Executive Director
Responsibilities:
** Base Building & Mobilization: Conducting base building activities (and coordinating members and leaders to do the same) at organizations/agencies/centers that serve ex-offenders, and areas of Baltimore City where ex-offenders are known to be concentrated by organizing house-meetings; one-on-one relational meetings; moving individuals met to participate in meetings, trainings, actions, etc.
** Leadership Development: Identifying potential leaders and building the skills of active membership to understand the political underpinnings of any campaign (i.e. legal & policy context, power analysis, etc.) and to take on more and more roles in the campaign (i.e. giving testimony, facilitating meetings, conducting outreach, etc.) through both one-on-one development and workshops.
** Committee Development: Pulling together and staffing organizing committee(s) of local leaders to determine the focus of a campaign and then make ongoing decisions regarding the campaign’s direction; providing critical background information to leadership team so as to facilitate strategic decision-making.
** Campaign Development, Planning, & Implementation: Facilitating issue identification, campaign planning and campaign development processes to develop a local campaign with leadership including demands, strategies, tactics, etc.; facilitating campaign planning process and subsequent implementation.
** Campaign Research: Conducting background research on topics (e.g., sealing of criminal records), targets, allies and opponents pertinent to the campaign.
** Coalition & Stakeholder Work: Working with ally organizations in the area to move forward campaign goals and demands.
**Assures the organization and its mission are consistently presented in strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders.
Qualifications: Experience of incarceration is helpful; a commitment to the mission of Out For Justice; an ability to lead in a “shared power” model of social change organizing (i.e., a leader helping to develop leadership in others); . Computer skills in word processing and internet research. Good verbal, written, organizational and motivational skills.
** Experience in community organizing, political organizing, legislative issue advocacy, and or project development management required.
** Ability to work independently, yet take direction, according to goals of the organization.
** Strong commitment to relational membership/community led organizing, conducting one-on-one meetings with individuals, and ability to identify non-traditional and community-based leaders and people who want to be community leaders.
** Applicants must be committed to ideology of building community power & share our commitment to membership grassroots decision-making, radical politics & our analysis of power.
** Spanish language skills would be helpful, but not required.
** Residency in Baltimore City is preferred, though not mandatory.
** Access to car and a valid drivers license is highly recommended.
Apply by sending your resume and a cover letter describing why you would like to do this job and why you believe you are qualified.
Mail to: Trina Selden, Executive Director, Out For Justice, Inc., c/o Alternative Directions, Inc., 2505 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218.
Email to: trina@out4justice.org.
Phone: 443-416-8659
OFJ is an equal opportunity employer. Previously incarcerated people, people of color, women, GLBT individuals, and people with experience on public assistance are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information please check out our web page at www.out4justice.org . Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled.
