Statewide Organizer at Washington Low Income Housing Alliance (Washington State/Seattle)

[Allyson Fredericksen]

Washington Low Income Housing Alliance is hiring a statewide organizer. The primary focus of this position is to build the power of residents of affordable housing communities and people with personal experience of homelessness and housing instability through organizing the Resident Action Project (RAP), a joint project of the Housing Alliance and the Housing Alliance Action Fund, alongside our partners at Community Change.

Who we’re looking for: Someone who is passionate about building power through organizing a base of people who are directly impacted by our work. You should have the organizing chops to jump into an established program and help it become more focused and sustainable, by developing new leaders from within the membership as well as inspiring and leveraging support from nonprofit housing providers statewide. You should be excited by RAP’s potential to advance and inform Housing Alliance policy priorities.

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, “Black, Native American, and Hispanic households are more likely than white households to be extremely low-income renters - with incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income – for whom there is a dire shortage of affordable and available homes.” Direct experience and/or significant multicultural organizing experience with demographic groups most impacted by homelessness and housing instability is desired.

This is a full-time position which is based in our Queen Anne office in Seattle, however if the right candidate lived in another part of Washington state, we will consider a remote option. Due to the pandemic all staff are working from home indefinitely. When it is safe to meet in-person, this position requires the ability to occasionally travel for conferences or outreach activities. Evening and weekend work may also be required on occasion.

Salary & benefits: This full-time, exempt position has an annual salary of $55,000- $62,000 depending on experience. Generous benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance; employer contribution to retirement account; subsidized ORCA pass; life insurance; health care/childcare flexible spending account, and generous paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Full details on the position and how to apply are available on our website at https://www.wliha.org/about/jobs. 

Allyson Fredericksen

Operations & Finance Manager

Washington Low Income Housing Alliance