Childcare Senior Organizer

About Community Change and Community Change Action:

Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partners, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence on the inside.

Our vision of a better world centers around the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on the care economy, economic freedom, state power building, and immigrant rights.

This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and freedom – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another, and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description:

Community Change has been at the forefront of the child care movement as grassroots-led campaigns secure growing investments in the child care system and the workforce that supports it. We are seeking a Senior Organizer to support the grassroots organizing of our core state partners to ensure directly impacted childcare stakeholders -- including providers, parents, and families -- have a voice in shaping the childcare system that impacts their lives. This Senior Organizer will also play a key role in the development and execution of a national campaign for universal childcare.

The Childcare Senior Organizer will provide coaching, technical assistance and other support to both existing grassroots partners and state-based organizing groups that want to join the childcare movement and who have a commitment to base-building, leadership development, and statewide strategic campaigns. The Childcare Senior Organizer will co-strategize with our organizing partners to develop and advance 
campaigns at the local, state, and federal levels; help partners build and maintain their organizing infrastructure; brainstorm and test new base-building strategies; and provide advice on navigating relationship building and coalition work. 

As part of a team of organizers driving our child care work, this Childcare Senior Organizer will also help advance our efforts to win universal childcare, as well as ensure that taxpayer funded investments reflect child care as a public good, and to protect those investments from corporate and private profiteering. The right candidate for this role will have a track record of waging successful corporate accountability campaigns, as well as the ability to teach and coach our organizing partners to develop and execute campaign strategies that include the use of research to expose corporate tactics and misconduct, effective deployment of media and messaging, stakeholder engagement, and execution of public accountability actions. A successful candidate for this role will have the ability to distill complex topics into accurate, accessible, and compelling presentations and help our partners communicate effectively to a broad range of audiences.

This role will primarily support organizations that are in states with more robust campaigns, and travel is required. 

Principal Responsibilities:

The primary job responsibilities for this position will include: 
● Coaching state-based organizing groups that work on childcare. Coaching will include but is not limited to:

•  Assessing the strengths and challenges that face partner organizations in their childcare organizing work.
• Supporting and advising partner organizations’ current campaign(s) strategies and/or development of strategic campaign(s);
• Supporting partner’s base and power-building efforts related to the childcare movement
• Connecting partner organizations to internal Community Change resources or teams, like policy or communications, for strategic campaigns and organizing support. 
• Drafting memos and plans communicating the opportunities and needs of each state partner organization.

● The core priority for this role is to advance organizing and campaign partners goals and build and provide strategic and technical support to strengthen childcare organizing in states.
● Discerning the level of coaching needed for each childcare partner. Some organizations will have a high level of organizing, base building, and campaign experience, while others will exhibit areas of growth in one or more of these areas. The responsibilities for this role include coaching organizations at different stages of expertise and building strategic interventions and plans to support them.
● Working with the staff leadership of individual organizing partners to strengthen their internal capacity to operationalize the systems and practices that provide foundational support for organizing work.
● Helping lead Community Change’s private equity partner cohort, including facilitating collaboration across states, creating and implementing shared strategies, and identifying and building relationships with new organizing groups and allies to grow the breadth and power of our work.
● Serving as a liaison between assigned partners, the Community Change Childcare team, and our broader national movement, providing frequent updates and communicating with members of our team, and connecting partners to Community Change’s movement strategies, including national days of action like our annual Day Without Child Care, which will likely have at least 100 events nationwide in over 30 states this year.
● Participating in and supporting a strong team culture where each person feels valued, there is accountability, there is celebration, clarity of purpose and strategy, and cohesion with team partners on a national strategy.
● Collaborating across teams at Community Change, including digital, communications, policy and advocacy, and electoral.

Qualifications:

● At least 8 years experience as an Organizing Director, Campaign Director or Executive Director at an organization where the primary theory of change is grassroots organizing. This can include leadership roles within a progressive political campaign, non-profit, or union.
● Senior-level understanding of organizing principles and experience implementing campaign strategies and tactics. Experience as the staff lead on several campaigns, ability to share lessons learned from those campaigns, and how you approached making challenging decisions. 
● Demonstrated commitment to racial, gender, economic, and social justice along with worker and community leadership.
● Experience with training on organizing fundamentals and theory of organizing. 
● Strong communication skills, specifically the ability to write clearly and concisely.
● Ability to assess project outcomes and present solutions for improving the project and its impact.
● Experience with collaborative decision-making and experience leading coalitions.
● Experience working with a regionally dispersed or remote team.
● An ability to juggle multiple projects and work in a fast-paced environment.
● A demonstrated commitment to meeting high standards and a history of getting things done despite obstacles.
● Ambition, drive, and energy.
● The ability to speak and write in fluent Spanish is a plus.
● Experience with voter engagement and electoral organizing is a plus.