About Community Change and Community Change Action:
Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation.
Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.
This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.
Position Description:
The Relational Organizing Fellow will provide capacity to the Community Change’s political/electoral team embedded in a state partner organization. The Relational Organizing Fellow will support a Community Change state partner to implement and run a co-developed relational voter turnout program. This role will work hand in hand with state partners staff with the support of the Community Change Action electoral, digital and communication team along with other teams to achieve the 2022 Electoral and Relational Organizing goals. The Relational Organizing Fellow will focus on building political power by utilizing relational organizing strategies to work with existing and new leaders to turn out new and unlikely voters in crucial primary and general elections.
What is relational organizing and how does it relate to the political program? Relational voter turnout is a model for building collective power at scale to bring about social and political change. It is about engaging your closest relationships in a conversation about political change and action. The practice of “Relational Organizing” has a rich history in our country including the Civil Rights Movement and the United Farm Workers Movement. Recently electoral campaigns have used the process of engaging and tracking personal relationships and conversations to strengthen existing relationships, facilitate engaging political education (memes, links to news stories, etc) through trusted channels, and ultimately deliver a more impactful get out the vote request.
We at Community Change/Action believe that this type of strategy can and should deliver impact in the 2022 election cycle but its capacity is greater than just electoral. We have the possibility of building an infrastructure that will strengthen our ongoing organizing and issue campaigns
A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.
Principal Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
This position reports to: Co-Director of Electoral Power Building with close coaching under direction of state partners staff.
Classification: Community Change recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is not included in Community Change’s bargaining unit and not covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
Duration: This is a one-year long fellowship position.
COVID-19 Requirements: Community Change requires all new employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (within six weeks after the start of employment) unless a medical or religious exemption is requested and approved. An employee will be considered fully vaccinated once (i) two weeks have elapsed since after the employee has received the final dose of a primary COVID vaccine series (e.g., two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, two doses of the Moderna vaccine, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine) and (ii) the employee has received any booster vaccine dose currently recommended by the CDC for those in the employee’s age group. Should the CDC subsequently recommend additional boosters or should an employee otherwise become newly subject to a CDC booster recommendation, an employee shall continue to be considered fully vaccinated if the employee gets the additional booster within one month of the change.
Travel Requirements: Travel pending COVID updates. Assuming the ability to travel, expected travel 3-8 weeks throughout the year.
Salary & Benefits: $55,0000 annual salary. Community Change also offers an excellent benefits package, which includes 4 weeks of annual paid vacation; additional paid holiday leave between December 24 and January 1; 8% employer contribution to retirement account after six months of employment (and 3% employer contribution for the first 6 months); and a choice of generous health insurance plans.
Closing Date of Position: Open Until Filled
Position Location: Flexible, AZ, GA, NV, WI preferred
How to apply: Please click here to submit a resume, a cover letter that includes salary expectations and at least two writing samples.
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Community Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer