Cleveland Lead Organizer

 Ohio Communities United

Position Announcement:

Cleveland Lead Organizer

 The Organization:

            Ohio Communities United is a new and growing progressive grassroots community organization committed to building power for low and moderate income people, predominantly in Cleveland and Columbus. OCU is organizing to preserve the gains won with the historic healthcare legislation; bringing together parents to ensure quality public schools; and fighting for quality living wage jobs.

At OCU, we work to ensure that everyone has access to the American Dream by amplifying the voices of low- and moderate-income communities, communities of color, and immigrant Americans though collective action. We develop the capacities essential to hold government and corporations accountable, improve the health of our families, economy and environment, and reform our public schools, workplaces and financial institutions.

OCU is a new organization with tremendous potential. It is a partner of the Leadership Center for the Common Good, a national training and support center for community organizations based in Washington, DC.

The Position:

 The Cleveland Lead Organizer will engage in direct community organizing, as well as supervising organizing staff engaged in jobs and parent organizing, as well as other projects. The Lead Organizer will report to the Executive Director.

 The position requires significant experience in community and/or labor organizing and will call upon the skills and passion of a first-rate organizer and strategist.  The Lead Organizer will have the opportunity to build world class organizing programs at multiple levels and to provide overall leadership to projects and campaigns.

Key responsibilities of this position include:

• Building powerful local, state, or national (from Ohio, working with organizations in other states) issue campaigns;
• Building new, powerful community organizations in priority communities;
• Supervise, train and direct work of other organizers;
• Research and develop potential organizing campaigns;
• Build coalitions and relationships with key community, political and labor leaders;
• Fundraising;
• Organizational development including leadership development, organizer training with the goal of building self-sufficient community organizations or labor unions.

Qualifications:

 The ideal candidate will possess the following attributes: 

• Three to five years experience in community, labor, or grassroots electoral organizing;
• Success at running issue-based, union/community organizing and/or political campaigns;
• Experience training and supervising community or labor organizers;
• Preference for excellent writing and communications skills;
• Ability to work with a large and diverse cross-section of members and allies.

Please send a detailed cover letter and your resume to lccgrecruit@gmail.com.

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