JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Tennessee Black Alliance for Educational Options (TNBAEO)
Job title: Family & Community Organizer
Term: Full-time
Location: Memphis, TN
About BAEO:
The Black Alliance for Educational Options is a national non-profit education advocacy organization founded in 2000 by prominent Black educators, elected officials, and civil rights activists. BAEO's mission is to increase access to high-quality educational options for Black children by actively supporting transformational education reform initiatives and parental choice policies that empower low-income and working-class Black families. BAEO is unique in that it's a virtual organization supported through a network of staff and volunteer leaders that embody its core values.
The Organizer's responsibilities will include:
- Organizer will spend the majority of their time in the field cultivating relationship with members of the community
- Responsible for growing and sustaining BAEO's constituency/membership base
- Regularly attend working group meetings, school board meetings, coalition meetings and conduct follow-up calls to provide ongoing support to working groups as needed
- Responsible for keeping abreast of ongoing education issues at the state and local levels, attending public meetings, keeping reliable records, and tracking community engagement
- Organize/facilitate meetings on a regular basis with school and elected officials to communicate parent/community concerns
- Integrate community organizing with long-term, sustainable policy and programmatic changes in education
- Network with local, state and national groups that are organizing around education issues important to our community and foster collaboration with these groups
- Support development of power-building curriculum and tools to support successful organizing and engagement efforts by BAEO membership
- Work in collaboration with BAEO's policy staff to ensure tools are developed to support community engagement and participation including collaborating on development of talking points on key education policy issues
- Work in collaboration with communication staff to support framing and messaging including press releases, reports, blogs and other communications materials as necessary
- Develop and maintain records on constituency tracking ensuring BAEO has accurate and reliable tracking mechanisms that log its communication and relationship with various community members
- Conduct follow-up calls and complete reports to ensure accurate collection of data on individuals/organizations
- Maintain a presence at all education-related community events and meetings
Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of and belief in BAEO's mission, vision, core values, and theory of change.
- 1-2 years experience organizing within the context of a grassroots, member led organization
- The successful candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter who has the self-discipline, maturity, and advanced technology skills to work effectively in a virtual environment without the benefit of close supervision
- 5 years of work experience
- College degree strongly preferred, candidates with a high school diploma will be considered with subsequent experience.
- Strong leadership development and training experience
- Successful track record of base building and campaign development
- Strong teamwork abilities for close collaboration with other staff and members Demonstrated knowledge of education reform, and parent choice policies and programs.
- Dedication and ability to work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends
- Demonstrated commitment to grassroots organizing and building power with people
- Experience in managing multiple deadlines and tasks.
- Previous organizing experience preferred.
- Must be willing to conduct cold-calls, and cold visits.
To apply: Please send your resume, and cover letter in attachment form, with salary requirements to sherry@baeo.org. Only candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted and invited to participate in the selection process. No phone calls please.
BAEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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