Lead Organizer, Northwest Indiana
Department : IN - Faith in Indiana Location : Gary, IN Job Code : 734
Description
Lead Organizer, Northwest Indiana
ABOUT FAITH IN INDIANA
unites tens of thousands of people across faith, race, and place to work together for racial and economic justice. Act Indiana is our 501(c)4 organization that gives us a platform to organize and advocate directly in our state’s elections and political process.
In our work, we center the leadership of Black people, immigrants, Muslims, returning citizens, women and young people.
Faith in Indiana is dramatically scaling up our organizing efforts to build a new people-centered democracy and win real change;
reduce mass incarceration and gun violence, a caring economy, climate justice, immigrant rights, and freedom to vote.
Our chapters are run and led by our grassroots leaders. People of color are in positions of authority and leadership, and low-income people of color are the drivers of our campaigns and strategies.
Through six geographic and constituency-based chapters, we work with 125 congregations and partner organizations with deep roots in the communities we organize.
In addition to believing strongly that power must be shared equitably in our organization and our society, we also believe that leaders are developed, not born;
and that relationships grounded in trust and vulnerability coupled with radical accountability and direct, courageous communication allow for each of us to bring our full, brilliant selves to the table.
Faith values are also a big part of what drives us. We organize people through faith institutions, in partnership with Indiana’s 17 largest religious traditions.
We amplify the prophetic voice of clergy from diverse backgrounds.
The OPPORTUNITY
Faith in Indiana seeks an experienced organizer with a track record of building people-powered vehicles to win tangible results to lead our newest chapter in Northwest Indiana.
This position will work alongside our strongest partners in the region to scale-up multi-racial, multi-faith organizing and advance a coordinated strategy.
The lead organizer will be the primary social change architect for the region; developing new organizing teams in congregations, teaching the principles of community organizing to grassroots leaders and over time a team of organizers, and building escalating campaigns that deliver structural reforms at the local, state, and national levels.
Initial campaigns will likely include; expanding mental health and crisis response services, criminal justice reform, environmental racism, and quality public education.
THE ROLE
In this role you will :
• Grow a network of Clergy leaders. The lead organizer will build relationships where none exist, inviting clergy from diverse faith institutions in Gary, East Chicago, Hammond, Crown Point, Merrillville, and Valparaiso to grow participation in a multi-faith, multi-racial organizing effort that centers the leadership of people of color.
• Develop Organizers. Recruit, hire and create the conditions for organizers and grassroots leaders to learn how to organize.
You have to teach, coach, and hold organizers and leaders accountable to a team.
Be a political architect. Co-create with grassroots leaders, and organizers, long-term strategic plans that escalate power and deliver wins on racial and economic justice.
Write your plans down so they can be owned broadly and free people up to act.
Build Vote Power. We are flipping the formula to grow the vote power of people of color, women, and youth and turn non-voters into voters.
Faith in Indiana staff is contracted by Act Indiana to run large-scale voter engagement programs throughout the year.
• Build Money Power. We understand money to be abundant, liberatory and a core source of our collective power. All our top leaders and organizers take responsibility for ensuring congregations and individuals grow financial contributions for movement stability.
• Amplify on-the-ground organizing with sophisticated tools. We equip leaders with sophisticated tools to amplify the on-the-ground organizing and bring far more people than we can personally touch into our movement community.
• For example; integrating tested-messages that inoculate dog-whistle racism and build cross racial solidarity; supporting leaders to collect data and track supporter participation;
overlay digital organizing and large-scale grassroots fundraising.
People at the Center. Bring your full self and brilliance into a strong accountable relationship with your supervisor and peers.
Model our Values and Culture. Shared Power. Radical accountability. Trust. Courageous and direct conversations. The development of People is the priority.
Inclusion. Money is power. Take bold risks. Model these values in all we do.
HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE A GOOD CANDIDATE?
You can be great for this role if you are someone who is :
• Able to act with integrity and has a strong work ethic, grit
Location: Gary, IN
Posted: Aug. 22, 2024, 12:27 p.m.
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