Director of Community Organizing

Organizational Overview

Diversity is a core value at Hope CommUnity Center. We are passionate about building and sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working and learning environment for all staff, Board, community members and volunteers. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges and to discover, design and deliver creative solutions. Our goal is not only to improve the diversity, equity, and inclusion at Hope CommUnity Center but to advance equity and justice on a global scale.

Mission Statement

Hope CommUnity Center fosters diverse and empowered learning communities engaged in personal and societal transformation. Through service and advocacy, we stand together with immigrants and others who are tenacious and courageous in the face of all systems of oppression.

Position Overview:

Hope Community Center is seeking a full-time Director of Organizing to lead our organization's organizing and advocacy initiatives, primarily by building and driving a team of organizers, community leaders, and partners to turn the resources we have into the power we need to win tangible change for Immigrant, LGBTQ+, and Black communities and families in Central FL and beyond.

The ideal candidate is a natural, seasoned leader who is wired toward developing a new team of organizers and leaders to meet ambitious impact goals. They will bring a passion for engaging with coalition partners, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and constituents to bring about real policy change with and through leaders who are directly impacted and their allies. While also building power and resiliency from within to face the many challenges our communities face socially, environmentally, and economically.

Primary Job Functions

• Build and grow an organizing team that leads an integrated impact approach that leverages services, education, organizing, and mistica (soul) towards building our resilience and power to win change for our communities.
• Develop local campaigns that address the needs and desires of our Hope communities and exercise leadership on Hope’s behalf in state and national spaces.
• Develop internal and external training opportunities for staff and members to level up their organizing and political education.
• Drive a scalable and quantifiable base-building program through civic engagement and community-building tools.
• Track successes and grant compliance.
  • Act as an internal advocate for leadership development and constantly look for ways to engage leaders found through services delivered by HCC.
  • Lead the ongoing development of Hope CommUniversity, ensuring it becomes a central pathway for organizing, leadership development, and community empowerment.
  • Collaborate closely with Hope’s leadership team to keep HCU at the core of Hope’s mission, integrating it with all programs by identifying emerging leaders who can grow through HCU’s offerings.
• Serve as a member of the organization’s leadership team.

If you were here right now, you would be:

• Managing our 3 organizers (Youth, LGBTQ+, and Campaigns’ lead).
• Setting up the organizing office to be a space that serves the community and staff.
• Driving our Hope CommUniversity, leadership development, and program efforts.
• Leading our civic engagement and community engagement strategy.
• Meeting and developing a joint plan for the Florida Legislative Session.
• Developing Hope communities (neighborhood teams).
• Working with the service departments to identify leaders to power our grassroots efforts.

Skills/Abilities:

• Results-orientation: has a track record of achievement and producing results (rather than getting immersed in the process), perseveres despite obstacles,
• Commitment to social justice & racial equity: recognizes role of race, gender, and other identities in shaping health disparities, is driven to improve conditions, and proactively learns re: race, equity, and identity,
• Project management skills: stays on top of multiple projects, plans backward, anticipates obstacles, identifies and involves stakeholders appropriately, uses resources wisely,
• Integrator: Able to move between and integrate multiple modes of social impact (mobilizing, advocacy, services, civic engagement, etc.). Can weave together disparate approaches and inspire people to connect across approaches,
• Relationship-building: able to connect with individuals and build people power as well as alliances among a wide range of players locally, state, and nationally. Works well with diverse or marginalized populations; can bring in allies across diverse communities,
• Strategic thinking: Will take ownership of strategic thinking to identify effective ways to advance our cause,
• Communicator: Comfort with public speaking including political education, facilitating groups, speaking to the media about issues affecting marginalized communities and conducting trainings for staff, volunteers and community members.

Familiarity with the local community is a plus. Prior experience in immigration and LGBTQ+ organizing and advocacy is also beneficial.

Values/attitudes

• Passion for social justice, anti-racism efforts, gender justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, worker justice and HCC’s mission and vision,
• Progressive approach to socio/political world views,
• Comfort working with diverse communities,
• Credibility, ethical conduct and a capacity for discretion,
• Passionate about the liberation of immigrants independently of their immigration status,
• Ability to speak on behalf of the organization’s philosophy (mission and vision),
• Generosity to contribute with tools to other’s work,
• Self-starter capable of leading and inspiring a team towards a common goal and vision,
• Problem solving attitude,
• Conciliatory/capacity to listen,
• Timely/consistency,
• Attention to details,

Structure

• This is a full-time position. Schedule will include 40 hours hours a week with some evening and weekend work required occasionally. The role requires travel.

Salary

• The salary range for this position is $70,000 - 80,000, with the exact salary depending on experience. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and a retirement plan.