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Job Title: Community Organizer
Department: Advocacy
Reports To: PPAV Organizing Director
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary: $45,000
Job Summary:
The Community Organizer will be responsible for helping PPAV achieve its legislative and grassroots organizing goals. Key areas of focus will include growing a base of Latinx supporters and working with the field team at the state office and in affiliates to implement the statewide advocacy field plan. The Community Organizer will help facilitate lobby days and days of action, coordinating regional phone banks and door-to-door canvassing efforts, doing community outreach, and recruiting and supervising volunteers and interns. The Community Organizer will work to deepen Latinx engagement to build power for the reproductive health movement, working within local campaigns and initiatives as a vehicle for community building.
Responsibilities:
- Implement a field organizing program designed to increase the number of Planned Parenthood activists in Northern Virginia.
- Manage plan for regional grassroots organizing, including the formation of local core activist groups and volunteer leadership program.
- Supervise the development of supportive student organizations at local colleges/universities.
- Recruit, train, and mobilize volunteers as needed to carry out grassroots organizing plans. This includes phone banks, canvassing, rallies, petition drives and other forms of grassroots action, as safely possible.
- Help to recruit and mobilize key legislative or "grasstops" supporters in the region.
- Coordinate grassroots lobbying program during the General Assembly session, including the statewide day of action and smaller scale affiliate grassroots contact with legislators.
- During electoral cycles, focuses heavily on campaign efforts supporting candidates endorsed by Planned Parenthood Virginia PAC or the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
- Recruit and supervise interns.
- Manage health center advocacy program.
- Complete timely data entry and management.
- Work with community partners to ensure meaningful collaboration
- Demonstrate Planned Parenthood's In This Together service ethos by ensuring that the people who make our mission possible are supported, cared for and engaged.
- Has deep experience living or working in Latinx or immigrant communities in the U.S.
- Build deep and intentional relationships with the Latinx community, organizations, and leaders who can support cross-collaboration efforts with Planned Parenthood.
- Engage, educate, and mobilize Latinx communities on local initiatives and Planned Parenthood services
Qualifications:
- Local organizing experience in Northern Virginia
- At least one big campaign victory on campus or in your local community as a volunteer or staff member
- At least one to two years as a volunteer or staff doing field organizing
- BA or BS Degree.
- Bilingual/fluent Spanish speaker.
- Computer literate.
- Understands and abides by VLPP mission and core values, including diversity, self-determination, privacy, and access; practices these values in the work environment with internal and external audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to successfully relate to and motivate volunteers.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask.
- Ability to work independently and in team settings.
- Proven experience excelling in fast paced and metrics driven work environments.
- Comfortable speaking to and interacting with the public, self-motivated and detail-oriented.
- Willingness to think creatively and solve problems proactively.
- Valid driver's license and reliable access to a vehicle.
- Worked at least one electoral cycle as a full-time staff person.
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