ORGANIZING SPECIALIST
In this role, you'll be the primary driver of our 3-month pilot program to build a lasting grassroots strategy for the League of Badass Women. The pilot you'll lead will revamp and deeply invest in our local group structure, the City League. You'll develop a plan to recruit, select, convene and support leaders from 3-5 cities from across the globe who want to build or revitalize a City League in their community. You'll build a community of practice where the leaders share, reflect, learn and build the model together. The lessons you uncover with your team of leaders, and your own reflections and insights into what works and what doesn't, will be a lasting and crucial contribution to the grassroots infrastructure -- and power -- of the League of Badass Women.
Application Deadline
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; all applications must be received no later than February 4th, 2018
Position Type
1099 Hourly Contractor
Approximately 10 hours/week
Pay range: $50-75/hour, depending on experience
Duration
3 months
Location
Anywhere; this role requires regular, real-time communication with other team members in Eastern and Pacific Time Zones
What You'll Be Doing
Develop and execute a 3-month "City League Challenge" project plan
Support leaders in 3-5 cities to build their groups; create a community of practice between leaders that enables cross-pollination and engages the volunteer leaders in refining the program
Create event and meeting concepts that are high impact and high quality; build tools to support leaders in deploying these events and meetings
Support other grassroots and volunteer-oriented initiatives, such as our mentorship-with-a-twist pilot
Post, engage, and help manage the League of Badass Women's secret Facebook group, as needed
What We're Looking For
Excellent interpersonal skills, strong organizational skills, solid written and oral communication skills and superb judgement
Topnotch coaching skills and ability to work with highly sophisticated volunteers in a supportive and collaborative way
Experience building or working in a distributed organizing model
Understanding of organizing technologies that may be valuable tools to support our program
Resourcefulness, ability to generate creative ideas and problem-solve
Knowledge of feminism and intersectional issues affecting women and girls
Ability to connect with people who have diverse perspectives
Ability to maintain flexibility and work both independently and collaboratively
Our Purpose
Today's traditional workforce was built by white men for white men. Today's model of leadership is based on traditionally masculine skillsets, all of which are framed as sources of power. Our imagery, management books, and heroes of business usually display some or all of these characteristics: aggressive, competitive, high IQ, networked for power, dominant, extroverted, ruthless. Conversely, many of the skillsets women naturally excel at and display, such as empathy, high EQ, community, collaboration, humility, conciliation are deemed weaknesses.
Women that 'make it' in this dominant architecture often sacrifice parts of themselves to do so, with far more of us hitting glass ceilings, glass cliffs or taking a different path. Too often women are taught that the few roles at the top require competing with other women to get to them, or conforming with stereotypical archetypes of leadership to get to the top, which either rules them out, or has them lose their authenticity. And even then, all the research to date says that if the architecture continues with incremental changes only, it will take 100 years for women to reach parity in the workplace.
We're not here to lean into a system that doesn't work for us, we're here to disrupt it and create a new system that works for everyone.
About the League of Badass Women
Founded by Hannah Jones in 2015, the League of Badass Women is a global network of women dedicated to championing women in the workplace and reimagining the definition of great leadership. It started as a 2 a.m. epiphany that led to the creation of a single Facebook page. Today we have over 10,000 members and 22 city chapters across the globe.
The mission of the League of Badass Women is to connect and empower communities of women to support each other, to rewrite the rules of leadership, and disrupt the world of work for good. By 2025 we envision a world where female leadership is recognized in the mainstream as an asset to the world and the new definition of "great leadership."
How to Apply
Send a cover letter and resume to jobs@leagueofbadasswomen.org by Feb 4th with "Organizing Specialist" in the subject line. Please include your hourly rate requirement.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At The League of Badass Women, we welcome and value diversity in our workforce and membership, and strive to create an inclusive culture and equitable workplace. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, educational attainment, disability, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and record of arrest or conviction.
Applicants are not expected to provide any past or current compensation information during any phase of the interview process.
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