United Respect: California Lead Organizer

United for Respect:
California Lead Organizer LOCATION

CA

$70,000-$80,000 / Yearly

United for Respect

Organizing

Non-Profit

To apply, please submit your resume and a thoughtful cover letter here:

California Lead Organizer

Job Description

Reports to: Organizing Director or Deputy Director of Organizing

Supervisory Responsibilities: This is not a management or supervisory position.

Supervises: N/A

Bargaining Unit Status: In the bargaining unit

FLSA Status: Not Exempt

Location: Hybrid position candidates must be based in California and hold a residence in one of the following counties:
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.

ABOUT UNITED FOR RESPECT

United for Respect (UFR) and United for Respect Education Fund (UFREF) is a national organization committed to building power and centering the voices of people working for the country’s largest retail corporations. Through scaled leadership development and base-building, UFR/EF is challenging major corporations and policymakers to create an economy and democracy that meets the needs of all working people. We utilize traditional on-the-ground organizing best practices - in-person outreach in work places and homes and public events and actions - and leverage technology — social media, relational tools, and our digital platform — to bring retail workers into a shared community of support and advocacy to win big, bold corporate and public policy change.

ABOUT THE POSITION

UFR is seeking a motivated and dynamic California Lead Organizer to engage, recruit and develop the leadership of Walmart and/or Amazon workers in the State to help drive national and state policy campaigns for economic and racial justice.

Major initiatives the California Lead Organizer will be responsible for include, but are not limited to:

• Developing the leadership of retail workers in the State by empowering them to organize their co-workers and communities toward winning public policy and corporate campaigns.
• Building strong national committees of retail workers to support national campaigns focused on raising workplace standards (i.e, living wages, fair workweek, paid family leave, earned sick time), winning equitable workplaces free of sexual harassment and racial discrimination, as well as advancing public policies to hold corporations accountable.

We encourage you to apply for this position if you are excited about worker and community empowerment and are passionate about investing time and resources into deep and scaled organizing. The ideal candidate excels at relationship-building, interpersonal communication, and leader identification and development.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Utilize a mix of on-the ground worker organizing and online engagement to recruit and activate retail workers in the State and nationally to support United for Respect’s policy agenda and priorities.
• Build a base of low wage retail workers to help drive policy initiatives, actions and priorities in the State.
• Develop and build leadership committees to drive national and state corporate and public policy campaigns through an inclusive process that develops organizing and advocacy skills, generates bold actions, educates the public and moves policy makers.
• Work with UFR staff and partners to organize actions, press events and prepare testimony for public hearings.
• Support retail workers to share their stories with each other and publicly, with press and on social media.
• Participate in strategy development and planning to grow our state program and advance advocacy priorities.
• Utilize a data-driven organizing approach to achieve campaign goals.
• Coordinate/support a team of junior organizers in the state.
• Work in coalition with organizational partners in the state.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring

• Minimum 2-3 years of labor organizing experience, relational organizing experience strongly preferred.
• Proficiency using digital tools for organizing and base-building.
• Must have a car and a valid driver’s license, and be able to drive/travel as needed on a regular basis.
• Experi…