JOB OPENING Affiliate Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)- Washington, D.C.

[jeremiah lowery]

Founded initially after September 11th, 2001, the Restaurant
Opportunities Center (ROC) has grown into a national organization with
over 13,000 low-wage restaurant worker members in thirteen locations,
and growing rapidly. From 2001 until 2008, our work was focused in New
York City, and achieved great success in impact for restaurant
workers. In summer 2007, ROC-NY hosted the nation's first national
restaurant worker convening, and the national organization,
ROC-United, was born. In January 2008, the co-founders of the
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) left the local
organization in the hands of former members and restaurant workers,
and went on to launch ROC-United.


Over the last eleven years, we have won more than ten workplace
justice campaigns, winning more than $10 million in misappropriated
tips and wages and discrimination payments for low-wage workers, and
significant policy changes in high-profile fine dining restaurant
companies covering thousands of workers. We have partnered with more
than 100 responsible restaurant owners to promote the 'high road' to
profitability, and trained more than 5000 restaurant workers to
advance to livable wage jobs within the industry. We have also
published thirty ground-breaking reports on the restaurant industry,
obtaining significant media coverage, played an instrumental role in
winning a statewide minimum wage increase and paid sick days for
tipped workers, and initiated other policy campaigns at the local,
state, and federal level. We have organized restaurant workers to open
their own cooperatively-owned restaurants in New York and Detroit.



Since January 2008 we have launched affiliates in the Bay Area,
Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Michigan, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia,
Los Angeles, New Mexico, Seattle, and Washington, DC. In each region,
we conduct workplace justice campaigns, partner with 'high road'
restaurants to conduct advance restaurant workforce development
programs, and collaborate with local academics and other allies to
produce comprehensive participatory research and policy initiatives.
Nationally, we organize convening of restaurant workers, Congressional
briefings, public fora, and more. In these ways, ROC continues to
build power and voice for low-wage restaurant workers at the local,
state, and federal levels.

ROC-United worked with local residents to launch ROC-DC in 2009, to
organize restaurant workers in DC, engages in workplace justice,
research and public policy campaigns, and workforce development work,
including operating a non-profit restaurant (COLORS) and a cooperative
business incubator program.



RESPONSIBILITIES:



● Supervise local ROC staff to implement and strategically
integrate local and national programs in worker and high road employer
organizing, research, public policy, workforce development (including
COLORS Restaurant), and cooperative development;

● Assist in developing the organizing skills of staff and member
organizers with a focus on membership recruitment, leadership
identification and development, dues collection, and formation of
member-led campaign and organizing committees;

● Under the supervision of ROC-United National Program Directors,
lead and provide support to local staff and members in the day-to-day
implementation of national workplace justice organizing campaigns as
well as local, state, and federal public policy campaigns that bring
pressure to bear on targeted employers as well as the industry as a
whole;

o Provide strategic input to overall campaign and strategy;

o Conduct individual and group meetings with workers to plan and
implement the organizing campaigns;

o Develop leadership and political consciousness among restaurant
workers through trainings, relationship building, and shared
experiences;

o Motivate individual workers and groups of workers to take action;

o Strategically identify and engage local community allies

● Represent ROC-DC to other institutions, press, and priority
relationships and lead local implementation of national communications
plans;

● Provide local support as requested to a ROC-United staff team
that provides centralized fundraising, accounting, and human resources
management to ROC-DC

● Maintain sound and sustainable fiscal operation of ROC-DC
including monitoring compliance with a local annual budget developed
by ROC-United;


Additionally the Director will represent ROC-DC on the Council of
Directors in their national strategy and decision-making process. The
Local Director position is intended to be a senior-level, experienced
organizer position. The Local Director will report directly to
ROC-United’s Deputy Executive Director.



QUALIFICATIONS:

● 3-4 years labor/community/political organizing experience;

● Experience coalition building, and understanding of member
leadership development;

● Experience in conducting research;

● Experience in guiding policy campaigns;

● Significant experience working collaboratively with persons of
diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic status, ages, and
sexual orientations

● Demonstration of a professional attitude;

● Willingness and openness to learn and grow;

● Strong communication, leadership, and management skills;

● Possess reliable transportation;

● Demonstrated commitment to racial, social, and economic justice;

● Restaurant work experience a plus; and

● Fluency in oral and written Spanish strongly preferred


Note: We recognize that not all applicants will possess all
qualifications. We are looking for an applicant with the right mix to
be successful in the position.

COMPENSATION

Salary is commensurate with experience and includes a generous
benefits package, including Employer paid health and dental insurance
provided after 90 days

TO APPLY

Please send cover letter and resume detailing your qualifications and
stating your salary requirements to step...@rocunited.org

ROC-United is an equal opportunity employer. Women, immigrants,
LGBTQ, low-income, and people of color are strongly encouraged to
apply.
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