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>RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
>JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>Job Title: National Organizer - Civic Engagement
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>Position: Full-time, at least through 12/31/12 - grant funded position.
>
>Salary range/benefits:
>DOE, $42,500 - $52,000, plus benefits
>
>
>Location:
>Preferred ability to locate in New York City. Will consider other
>possible locations.
>
>Closing Date:
>ASAP, position open until filled.
>
>
>
>About Right To The City:
>The Right to the City Alliance is a national alliance of over 35 racial,
>economic and environmental justice organizations, as well as resource
>allies and individual supporters. Right to the City emerged in 2007 as a
>unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement
>of low-income people, LGBTQ, and youths of color from urban
>neighborhoods. Our member organizations, allies and supporters stand
>together under the notion that every person has an inalienable right to
>urban life. Through shared principles and a common frame and theory of
>change, the Right to the City Alliance is building a national movement
>for 21st Century Cities that are democratic, just and sustainable. In
>the process, we are building new ways to work and organize, new ways to
>source innovation, and new ways to build reciprocal knowledge and common
>cause between locally-based organizations and networks. The Right to the
>City Alliance is building this fight city by city ? creating urban
>united fronts with mainstream environmentalists and union members,
>developing cutting edge urban platforms, and running electoral and
>legislative campaigns.
>
>Job Description:
>The National Organizer - Civic Engagement will collaborate with RTTC
>member organizations to develop a national infrastructure and learning
>community that moves from voter mobilizing to voter organizing, focusing
>on voter engagement as an integrated tactic that is part of our local,
>regional and national strategy for social change. The National Organizer
>will work with RTTC National Staff to support the development of the
>Alliance campaign work, mobilization, research, or communications. The
>National Organizer - CE will report to the Executive Director of the
>Right to the City Alliance.
>
>
>
>Responsibilities:
>
>The National Organizer - CE will be expected to:
>? Support the development of RTTC regions and working groups through
>coordination of joint work regionally or nationally.
>? Support member organizations in targeted cities to fully integrate
>voter organizing as a key strategic approach to winning 21st Century Cities.
>? Coordinate RTTC civic engagement working group meetings, committee
>work, and facilitate discussions
>? Provide logistical support for larger RTTC national meetings and
>mobilizations
>
>? Manage civic engagement programs from conception and implementation to
>evaluation.
>
>? Support funding development and reporting efforts for civic engagement
>programs.
>? Facilitate member acquisition and use of voter technologies (e.g. VAN)
>? Correspond with other national electoral alliances and represent RTTC
>in various voter engagement forums
>? Develop a sophisticated knowledge and understanding of RTTC voter
>engagement practices and challenges on regional and national scales.
>
>? Coordinate the participation of RTTC members in coalition with other
>national alliances on joint voter organizing work.
>
>? Coordinate internal and external work reports from the work group.
>
>Qualifications:
>? Political agreement with Right to the City principles and vision
>? Minimum three years of electoral and/or grassroots organizing experience
>? Working knowledge of voter engagement technology and database applications
>? Excellent communication skills?verbal and written
>? Excellent organizational skills?good attention to detail and well
>organized
>? Self-motivated?proven ability to work independently and under definite
>timelines and deadlines
>? Ability to work well with diverse groups and populations
>? Dedication and ability to work flexible hours and travel
>? Bilingual in English and Spanish and/or Mandarin highly desirable
>
>Women, People of Color and LGBTQ urged to apply. Applications will only
>be accepted electronically. Please email a cover letter, resume, salary
>history and three references to:
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>Search? in the subject line. Please make sure to include a daytime phone
>number where we can contact you.
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