Hiring: Resource Organizer at People's Tech Project

[Jenessa Irvine]

Hi all,

People's Tech Project is hiring a Resource Organizer! Please see the basics below and check out our full job description and link to apply here.

Resource Organizer
People’s Tech Project seeks an experienced storyteller and skilled project manager able to help shape and execute plans to secure the resources that we need to support Black, Brown, and immigrant communities to take on the high-stakes role technology plays in society today.

Salary: $81,150-$87,394
Benefits: include 4 day/32 hour flexible work week, PTO of 20 vacation, 12 sick, and 7 floating holidays, organizational holidays, paid short and long term disability and life insurance, 90% employer coverage of healthcare plans for staff, opportunity to enroll in dental plan, 2% employer match in 401k plan
Location: Remote position anywhere in the continental US, must be able to work core hours of 11am – 4pm EST. Must be able to travel to the Northeast corridor at least quarterly.
Position type: Full time, exempt
Application Deadline: April 17, 2025 at 5pm EST
Target Start Date: June 2, 2025
Experience level: at least 3 years experience in a similar position. 

Core responsibilities:

• Support the execution of a strategic fundraising plan for our organization and for partners in collaboration with the Executive Director, Director’s team, and Advisory Board
• Assist in building and maintaining strong connections with prospective and current funders.  
• Manage grant processes from start to finish, including timely grant applications and reporting by handling writing, data collection, and administrative tasks.
• Proactively seek out opportunities and create compelling materials (slide decks, one-pagers, etc) to showcase the organization’s work to potential funders.
• Engage with programmatic work, including attending and participating in convenings, workshops, and meetings, in order to build a robust understanding of our programs for communications and grant writing purposes

Qualifications + Skills:

• Strong written and oral communications skills: demonstrated ability to tell community organizing stories compellingly to multiple kinds of audiences and to tailor People’s Tech’s message in a way that resonates with our funding priorities.
• Excellent project management: think ahead and take initiative, self-manage, create plans and keep the team on schedule and on track with the plan, especially with respect to fixed external grant deadlines.
• Grant management: experience managing grants, including researching and writing grants and reports and overseeing the grant process.
• Funder experience: Strong or demonstrably growing knowledge base of social justice foundation landscape and key players
• Political analysis that aligns with People’s Tech, including a critique of racial capitalism and an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of philanthropy
• Culture add: Reliable, emotionally mature, willingness to learn from and collaborate with colleagues.