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IT Manager
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/20/2020
Location:
Alexandria,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. We are equal opportunity employers
POSITION:
IT Manager
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Northern Virginia or Richmond, VA
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking to hire a full-time IT Manager who will be responsible for managing the IT Department, including auditing and recommending technology solutions for security. They will have a background in PCI compliance and Windows and Mac systems. The candidate will be collaborative, adaptable, and someone that thrives in a fast paced environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage information technology and computer systems
- Plan, organizer, control, and evaluate IT and electronic data operations
- Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, security, and procedures
- Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems
- Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time
- 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.
- Provide IT support to all offices (Alexandria, Chantilly, Richmond, Hampton, VA Beach)
- Manage VPN’s
- Responsible for setting up new electronics and distributing to staff members
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- Experience with IT systems.
- Have knowledge and experience with VPNs
- Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
- Self-motivated; 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.
- Experience organizing immigrant communities is preferred.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English languages is preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $50,000 - $60,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume and contact information for three references on https://www.newvirginiamajority.org/jobs.
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls please.
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New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organize in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Distributed Organizing Director
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/20/2020
Location:
Norfolk, Richmond,New Virginia Majority (NVM) is Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization that builds power in working-class communities of color by mobilizing and organizing thousands of voters and residents across the Commonwealth. We seek conscious and skilled individuals with a deep commitment to racial and economic justice. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
POSITION:
Distributed Organizing Director
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Richmond, or Hampton Roads
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is hiring a full-time Distributed Organizing Director who will lead New Virginia Majority’s distributed organizing pilot project. This campaign will prioritize the creation and launching of decentralized ‘right to vote’ chapters in key Richmond and Hampton Roads communities. The ‘right to vote’ chapters will be led by formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones who are waging a multi year campaign to amend the constitution of Virginia so that people with felony convictions are no longer disenfranchised. This work will involve the creation and testing of a new structure of member engagement and leadership body that is replicable. We aim to apply this model to our statewide deep organizing work, as it proves successful.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead New Virginia’s distributed organizing model, including supervising and coaching lead community organizers
- Training and coaching core formerly incarcerated leaders and developing those leaders to create and run their respective ‘right to vote’ chapters that allows them to grow their membership and conduct local organizing and campaign activities
- Conducting mass trainings for members on organizing skills and the grand strategy for amending the constitution
- Develop the political consciousness of leaders and members through popular education, reflection, leadership development and developing appropriate educational materials
- Support actions, trainings and mobilization opportunities in order to activate members and activists
- Participate in campaign development, strategizing and implementation internally and with statewide coalition partners
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice
- At least 2 years of full time experience supervising and developing community organizers
- At least 2 years experience with leading and executing issue campaigns successfully
- Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines and 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
- Experience organizing in / with communities of color and/or formerly incarcerated people
- Driver’s license and access to a car
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position
- Experience with distributed organizing forms of organizing preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salary range is $55,000-$65,000, commensurate with experience and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental and stipends for phone use.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume and contact information for three references. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls or email please.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls or email please.
New Virginia Majority is an equal opportunity employer. NVM recruits, hires, trains and promotes without regard to race, creed, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability condition or marital status. NVM hires employees based upon qualifications, experience and training required for successful performance of the job as defined in the written job description.
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Digital Organizing Intern
New Virginia Majority
Temporary
Posted: 08/20/2020
Location:
Richmond ,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.
POSITION:
Digital Organizing Intern
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time 6 month with a possibility of extension
LOCATION:
Richmond, Hampton Roads or Remote
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking for a digital organizing intern to help implement digital strategy at the policy, political and organizing level, grow social media presence and engagement, and support and build campaigns and organizing efforts. This position is a 6 months temporary position with the possibility to extend.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support staff in maintaining robust presence on all digital platforms including email, social media and website, producing compelling, timely content
- Support digital campaigns strategies to grow online membership and engagement of our online supporters in taking action.
- Help drive social media, email, online advertising strategy
- Develop strategies aimed at targeting, building and retaining membership segments based on issue, campaign, demographic and other variables to deepen activism and engagement among members with specific interests
- Track, understand and apply analytics and metrics to measure effectiveness of tools and strategies
- Support high quality and timely web site presence; ensure ease of navigation, message consistency, relevance and engagement opportunities for visitors.
- Support tracking metrics and trends
- Support building graphics for campaigns
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial, and economic justice.
- At least 2 years experience creating high-quality digital content and campaigns to move people to take action.
- Excellent project management and time management skills: ability both rapidly respond to day-to-day needs while conceiving and implementing bigger projects over time
- Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
- Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects.
- Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
- Excellent organizational skills including superior attention to detail.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English languages is preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Hourly pay is $17/hr with stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume with contact information for three references to
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls please.
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New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organize around issues of racial, economic, and environmental justice year-round through mass political education, intensive leadership development, mobilization, and mass voter outreach. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Digital Organizer
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/20/2020
Location:
Chantilly, Alexandria, Norfolk ,DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking for an experienced Digital Organizer to help implement digital strategy at the policy, political and organizing level, grow social media presence and engagement, and support and build campaigns and organizing efforts.
New Virginia Majority is looking for an experienced Digital Organizer to help implement digital strategy at the policy, political and organizing level, grow social media presence and engagement, and support and build campaigns and organizing efforts.
Location: (One position in one of three locations in VA: Northern VA, Richmond, or Norfolk)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage and maintain robust presence on all digital platforms including email, social media and website, producing compelling, timely content
- Execute digital campaigns strategies to grow online membership and engagement of our online supporters in taking action.
- In collaboration with organizing staff, use social media, email, online advertising and other digital tools to develop online-to-offline organizing programs
- Strengthen online fundraising
- Develop strategies aimed at targeting, building and retaining membership segments based on issue, campaign, demographic and other variables to deepen activism and engagement among members with specific interests
- Track, understand and apply analytics and metrics to measure effectiveness of tools and strategies
- Maintain high quality and timely web site presence; ensure ease of navigation, message consistency, relevance and engagement opportunities for visitors.
- Work with external vendors
- Train and advise staff on digital communications strategy and social media best practices.
- Track technology trends and apply needed upgrades and innovations to ensure platforms and campaigns remain current
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial, and economic justice.
- At least 2 years experience creating high-quality digital content and campaigns to move people to take action.
- Excellent project management and time management skills: ability both rapidly respond to day-to-day needs while conceiving and implementing bigger projects over time
- Highly proficient in CRMs, CMSs, social media flatforms, SMS texting software, basic motion graphics editing
- Experience with HTML coding and CSS
- Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
- Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects.
- Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
- Excellent organizational skills including superior attention to detail.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English languages is preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $38,000 - $42,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please send a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to https://www.newvirginiamajority.org/jobs with the position name and preferred location in the subject header.
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls please.
New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organize around issues of racial, economic, and environmental justice year-round through mass political education, intensive leadership development, mobilization, and mass voter outreach. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer
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Deputy Organizing Director
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/19/2020
Location:
Richmond ,Deputy Organizing Director
New Virginia Majority (NVM) is Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization that builds power in working-class communities of color by mobilizing and organizing thousands of voters and residents across the Commonwealth. We seek conscious and skilled individuals with a deep commitment to racial and economic justice. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
POSITION:
Deputy Organizing Director (1)
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Richmond, Hampton Roads, or Northern VA (preference for Richmond and Hampton Roads)
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is hiring a full-time Deputy Organizing Director. This work involves supervising and working with lead community organizers and member leaders on specific issue campaigns, base-building and member leader development.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Help Lead New Virginia Majority’s multi-issue campaigns, supervising lead community organizers, issue campaigns and mobilizations to build leaders and power in working class communities of color across the Commonwealth
- Working with lead community organizers, oversee efforts to manage regular membership meetings with a standing agenda and support new leaders to facilitate meetings geared towards peer engagement and immediate activation
- Support actions, trainings and mobilization opportunities in order to activate members and activists
- Mobilize and track ladder of engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in database
- Develop the popular consciousness of members through popular education, reflection, and leadership development
- 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
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice
- Provide support to leadership organizing organizing
- At least 4 years paid organizing experience, leading and executing issue campaigns successfully
- At least 1 year of full time experience supervising and developing community organizers
- Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines and 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
- Experience organizing in / with communities of color, including immigrants
- Driver’s license and access to a car
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position
- Bilingual english and spanish proficiency preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salary range is $57,000-$67,000, commensurate with experience and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental and stipends for phone use.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume and contact information for three references to https://www.newvirginiamajority.org/jobs.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls or email please.
New Virginia Majority is an equal opportunity employer. NVM recruits, hires, trains and promotes without regard to race, creed, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability condition or marital status. NVM hires employees based upon qualifications, experience and training required for successful performance of the job as defined in the written job description.
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Community Organizer / Right to Vote
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/19/2020
Location:
Richmond ,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.
POSITION:
Community Organizer
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Richmond, VA
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking to hire a full-time community organizer who will recruit, engage, activate and retain formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones as members, develop their leadership, and work with our lead organizer to help build community-based leadership teams that we call ‘right to vote clubs.’
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, and tabling activities (adhering to physical distancing), and online recruitment
- Mobilize and track engagement of members and activists at various events and field opportunities in database.
- Support staff in maintaining robust presence on all digital platforms including email, social media and website, producing compelling, timely content
- Support digital campaigns strategies to grow online membership and engagement of our online supporters in taking action.
- Support building graphics for campaigns
- Help drive social media, email, online advertising strategy
- Provide support to leaders.
- Familiar with the criminal justice reform sector either personally or through professional experience.
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- Experience with grassroots organizing, specifically issue campaigns.
- 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.
- Excellent project management and time management skills: ability both rapidly respond to day-to-day needs while conceiving and implementing bigger projects over time
- Preference for working with
- Driver’s license and access to a car.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $36,000 - $42,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume and contact information for three references. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls or email please.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
***
New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organizes in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Community Organizer / Immigrant Justice
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/19/2020
Location:
Richmond ,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.
POSITION:
Community Organizer
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Richmond, VA
DESCRIPTION:
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 trainings to, and execute campaign strategy, working with Latinx immigrant communities in the Richmond, VA metro area.
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, trainings 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 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.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- Experience with grassroots organizing.
- 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.
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position.
- Experience organizing immigrant communities is preferred.
- Must be proficient in Spanish.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English languages is preferred
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $36,000 - $42,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
***
New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organizes in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Community Organizer
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/19/2020
Location:
Norfolk,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.
POSITION:
Community Organizer
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Norfolk/Virginia Beach
DESCRIPTION:
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 trainings to, and execute campaign strategy.
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, trainings 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 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.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- Experience with grassroots organizing.
- 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.
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $36,000 - $42,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a cover letter and resume and contact information for three references. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls or email please.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
***
New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organizes in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Coalition/Community Organizing
New Virginia Majority
Full time
Posted: 08/19/2020
Location:
Loudoun,COALITION / COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
Location: Loudoun, VA
Type: Full TimeMin. Experience: Entry Level
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.
POSITION:
Coalition Organizer
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Loudoun County / Chantilly, Virginia
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking to hire a full-time coalition organizer who will recruit, engage, activate and retain key institutional members and groups, develop leaders, build community-based leadership teams, conduct political education trainings, and execute campaign strategy.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build strong relationships with institutional leaders and members into clear membership roles including key constituent groups in the Loudoun County / Western Fairfax regions.
- Conduct timely and aggressive follow up with leads generated by field efforts including one-on-one meetings, and other methods of grassroots outreach.
- Strengthen existing organizing and conduct alliance building between coalition groups and Northern Virginia’s Latinx immigrants and other people of color communities.
- Help manage regular membership meetings with a standing agenda and supporting new leaders.
- 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 leaders through popular education, reflection, leadership development and developing appropriate educational materials.
- Provide support to institutional leaders.
- Develop campaign plans working with core leaders, strategize and help with implementation.
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- Experience with grassroots organizing and coalition building.
- 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.
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position.
- Experience organizing immigrant communities is preferred.
- Must speak English; Proficiency in one or more of the following preferable: Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are competitive. Salary range is $45,000 - $48,000, commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
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New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organizes in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Asian American Pacific Islander Lead Organizer
New
Full time
Posted: 08/18/2020
Location:
Alexandria,Asian American Pacific Islander Lead Organizer
Location: Alexandria, VA
Type: Full TimeMin. Experience: Experienced
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.
POSITION:
ACE Lead Organizer
POSITION TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATION:
Alexandria, VA
DESCRIPTION:
New Virginia Majority is looking to hire a full-time Lead AAPI Community Organizer who will recruit, engage, activate and retain members, develop leaders, build community-based leadership teams, conduct political education trainings, and execute campaign strategy on local and state campaigns.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Drive efforts to 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.
- Lead and supervise a team of up to 3 organizers.
- Create actions, trainings 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 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.
- Willing to put in the flexible hours to get the work done, including some nights and weekends.
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Committed to New Virginia Majority’s mission of social, racial and economic justice.
- 2 or more years experience in community organizing and running issue campaigns.
- 1+ year experience with supervising organizing staff.
- Ability to develop and maintain a variety of relationships on multiple levels.
- Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines.
- Self-motivated and works well both independently and on a team.
- Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects.
- Ability to take direction and constructive feedback.
- Driver’s license and access to a car.
- A minimum one-year commitment to the position.
- Experience organizing immigrant communities is preferred.
- Preference for ability to speak an Asian language – especially Urdu, Bengali, Nepalese, or Vietnamese. Strong writing skills in English.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salaries are $47,000 TO $57,000 commensurate with experience, and comes with an excellent benefits package, including health, vision, dental, and stipends for phone and transportation.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please send a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to applicants whose candidacy is not being pursued. No phone calls please.
***
New Virginia Majority (NVM), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organizes in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues. We fight for a Virginia that is just, democratic and environmentally sustainable. We are an equal opportunity employer.