Leadership Center for the Common Good
11 Dupont Circle, #240 Washington, DC 20036
Position Announcement
National Worker Organizing Coordinator
The Leadership Center for the Common Good is a national training and support center for community organizations. Common Good works with a range of community-based and grassroots organizations on an array of social justice issues, ranging from living wage jobs to immigrants’ rights, from environmental justice/green jobs to education reform.
Job Title: Worker Organizing Coordinator
Position: Full-time, 1 year with goal of making permanent
Reports To: Economic Justice Program Director
Location: Washington, DC
Position Summary:
Common Good is hiring a highly experienced organizer to coordinate our low-wage worker organizing projects. The Coordinator will assist in visioning, planning, and overseeing innovative worker organizing campaigns in conjunction with local and international unions.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Participating in and documenting campaigns with an eye toward replication;
- Work with the Director and affiliate organizations in coordinating implementation of worker organizing campaigns;
- Work with affiliate organizations to support the participation and leadership of local staff and members
- Provide coaching and mentoring for affiliate organizations;
- Collaborate on communications to successfully project campaign’s impact
- Help ensure that organizing campaigns support the growth and development of partner organizations
- Work with other senior staff to conceptualize and develop new campaigns
- Connect affiliate organizations to national campaigns
Job Requirements:
- Five or more years worker organizing experience, with significant lead experience;
- Willingness to work long hours, nights, and weekends;
- Willingness to travel extensively and to be temporarily stationed in the field;
- Capacity to work independently and with a team;
- The ability to make and follow through on a work plan;
- Sharp communications skills;
- Basic writing and computer skills;
- The ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds;
- Fluency in a second language is a plus;
Women, People of Color and GLBQT strongly urged to apply.
Send resumes to lccgrecruit@gmail.com.
