Make the Road PA is hiring an Organizing Director and a Development Associate!

[Alina Sipp-Alpers]

Hi everyone! My firm, New Working Majority, is helping Make the Road PA hire an Organizing Director (bilingual fluency in English and Spanish required) and a Development Associate. Details are below, you can apply to both here, and please email me with any questions! 

About the organization: Make the Road PA was launched in 2014 and, over the last decade, has quickly become one of the largest Latinx organizations in the state of Pennsylvania. MRPA now runs four robust organizing centers in Hazleton, Reading, Allentown, and Philadelphia. We have a strong, engaged membership base of Black and Brown working-class people, primarily in Latinx communities. We have a strong track record of local and state campaigns, large-scale mobilizations on federal issues, large-scale civic engagement work, and active leadership among key progressive organizing groups, coalitions, and tables across the state.

Organizing Director (full bilingual fluency in English and Spanish required)

Location: Philadelphia, Reading, Hazleton, or Allentown, PA. 

Travel: This position will involve between-office travel approximately 50% of the time, primarily day trips between Philadelphia, Allentown, Reading, Hazleton and Harrisburg. This position will also occasionally travel to New York, DC and to other Make the Road states around the country, and overnight trips may occur once per quarter.

Qualifications: 6-8 years of grassroots base building community organizing experience and fluency in Spanish. 

Salary: $95,500-106,500, depending on experience

Brief description: The Organizing Director is a senior leadership position and will be charged with developing and implementing statewide strategies and adding capacity to regional campaigns that builds long term power for our membership. With leadership from national organizations, the Organizing Director will also support federal issue-based campaigns. The Organizing Director provides ongoing coaching, training, supervision and support to the policy and field teams, organizers and the Deputy Organizing Director. In coordination with the Co-Executive Directors, the Organizing Director helps coordinate and guide issue campaigns in areas of school funding equity, living wage policies, criminal justice reform, immigrant rights, climate justice, workers rights, and other issues as needed as well as work closely with the Civic Engagement Director to implement the organization’s non-partisan voter engagement strategy with Organizing and Field Departments. The Organizing Director will also work closely with the Co-Executive Directors to ensure that campaign goals, strategies, messaging and funding opportunities and deliverables to funders are completed. The Organizing Director will manage large organizing initiatives, execute sophisticated trainings and conferences, develop strategic plans to demonstrate our grassroots power and represent the organization in coalition meetings and state tables. The Organizing Director is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and will, as part of the SLT, help with the implementation of our multi-year strategic plan and guide the organization’s development and overall organizational goal setting. Please note that this position will regularly be communicating with monolingual Spanish and monolingual English speaking members and staff, so consideration for this position requires fully bilingual Spanish and English fluency.

Development Associate (no Spanish required)

Location: Philly, Allentown, Hazleton, or Reading, PA. 

Travel: This position will involve between-office travel approximately 20% of the time, primarily day trips between Philadelphia, Allentown, Reading, and Hazleton. This position will also occasionally travel to conferences and to other Make the Road states around the country, and overnight trips will occur a few times/year.

Qualifications: 1-2 years of experience in the progressive political movement, ideally at a grassroots basebuilding organization, in any capacity: organizing, communications, policy advocacy, etc. 

Brief description: The Development Associate, in collaboration with the Development Manager and the Senior Leadership Team, is responsible for overseeing MRPA’s fundraising landscape and potential donor pool. They will play a vital role in fundraising for the entire organization, oversee fundraising for MRPA, be the point person for fundraising events, coordinating other activities to encourage donations and help move the team towards our goal of improving the community’s lives. The Development Associate must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with an enthusiastic team under the direction of a visionary director to build out a development department and exceed fundraising goals. The role will play a critical part in securing philanthropic funds, grant management, building out an individual donor pool, fostering relationships with potential donors/foundations under the direction of the director to continue MRPA’s vision.

Salary: $55,000-$60,000, depending on experience

Benefits: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 sick days, 5 personal days, 7 holidays in the calendar year, paid holiday break in December, life insurance, medical, dental, and vision insurance, option flexible spending account, transit credit, up to $80/month phone reimbursement, mileage reimbursement, 401k, parental leave, short and long term disability insurance.

Alina