We’re Hiring a COMMUNITY ORGANIZING DIRECTOR!

We’re looking for a new Community Organizing Director who is ready to take our 2-year-old organizing program to the next level! This position serves as a critical bridge between the State Capitol, our clients, and women statewide. The Community Organizer Director will be tasked with creating new systems to help mobilize women in communities and inform our work across the organization and our partners in the Connecticut advocacy movement.

We’re looking for someone who is bilingual with lived experience, deep ties to marginalized communities in Connecticut, and who is a creative and radical systems-change thinker. We need a knowledgeable, charismatic, go-getter who courageously works with women to ensure that women’s voices are heard in all spaces where decisions about women’s lives are made!

The Community Organizing Director reports to the Executive Director, and works closely with the Policy Director, the Legal Education team, and the Fundraising Advisor.

Essential Responsibilities

• Building SLJ’s community organizing arm:
  • Developing systems that will help SLJ mobilize women statewide
  • Curating our current list of organizing participants and growing the base while ensuring that women of color and women living with poverty are at the center of our work
  • Keeping open communication with women leaders in community and women at large state-wide
  • Continuing our current relationships and foster new community partnerships
• Working to ensure we are using our institutional power and resources to benefit the communities we serve and to strengthen the connection between our Legal Education and Policy programs
• Developing and facilitating Women’s Wisdom Circles, our flagship Community Organizing activity. Women’s Wisdom Circles are conversation circles where women across the state gather to share information about their experiences and expertise from lived experience, with the goal of informing our Public Policy agenda and the legislative strategy for engagement of women statewide.

• Organizing and facilitating teach-ins, workshops, and other public education opportunities to present to the community.
• Advising the Executive Director on trends and happenings in the field and working with them to ensure our messaging is reflective of women’s needs.

• Working with the Communications team to document the realities of women’s lives across the state and to advise on the best ways to use online tools for organizing.

• Participating in grant writing and reporting activities, as needed in partnership with the Fundraising Advisor.
• Working with the Policy Director to create streamlined resources and content for legislative advocacy and community organizing events and actions.

Minimum qualifications desired for this role

A college degree or traditional education are not required. Similar work experience can be substituted.

• Lived experience and deep ties to the under-resourced and historically oppressed communities we center.
• Minimum 3 years of organizing experience although other related experience can be considered and substituted (for example, in community engagement, social work, equity or antiracism training, etc.)
• Native or fluent Spanish speaker, with strong written and/or communication skills.
• Intersectional and nuanced understanding of systems of oppression and the impact of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, patriarchy, and colonialism on communities of color, especially in Connecticut.
• Strong facilitation and workshop training and design skills, both in-person and virtual.
• Vision and ability to grow the organizing program of She Leads Justice.
• Deep cultural competency and commitment to creating access and comfort in interacting with people of diverse backgrounds (age, race, class, etc.).
• Established relationships with community organizers, local leaders, and advocates across Connecticut.
• Experience with public speaking and ability to energize crowds and diverse audiences.
• General understanding of how the legislative process and State Capitol works, or willingness to learn.
• Driver’s license and access to a vehicle; willingness to travel statewide.
  
  

Salary and Benefits

The salary range is $60,000 to $65,000 and comes with a benefits package that includes generous paid time off, medical and dental insurance, retirement contributions, remote working, and a flexible schedule.

How to submit your application

We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

If you need accommodations or other help applying to this job then please contact jobs@sheleadsjustice.org and let us know what you need.

Please email the materials detailed below to jobs@sheleadsjustice.org and include “Community Organizing Director” in the subject line:

• Resume with relevant work.
• Cover letter that addresses (1) why you are passionate about community organizing and (2) examples of experiences. that have been pivotal in your professional work and personal journey toward racial and gender justice. The cover letter does not need to be longer than one and a half pages.

• Optional–if you’d like, we welcome you to also submit up to four other materials that further illuminate your passion, experience, and skills (e.g. articles or blogs, pictures, interviews, etc.)
  
  

Please note that we will not consider:

• Incomplete applications.
• Applicants who do not address the cover letter request in full.
• Applicants who do not have relevant work experience or meet the minimum qualifications, including fluency in Spanish.
  
  

She Leads Justice is an equal-opportunity employer that centers and works closely with marginalized communities. For this reason, we strongly encourage people of all historically marginalized identities to apply.

She Leads Justice does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under local, state, or federal laws.