Boston, MA Senior Community Organizer

Overview

**Must Live Within the Boston, MA Area”

Mothers Out Front is a dynamic social impact organization with ambitious goals to address the climate crisis. We are seeking a talented and passionate organizer to join our Massachusetts team and help build a diverse and powerful movement of mothers, grandmothers, and allies stepping up in big ways to take action for climate justice. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic, collaborative and energetic organizer.

Job Summary:

Department: Organizing

Reports to: MA Organizing Manager

Location: Boston (hybrid – with significant in-person work and a home-based office)

Job Summary: The Massachusetts Senior Organizer builds community teams that carry out effective campaigns to move decision makers to make child-centered climate justice decisions. You will help us focus resources particularly in those communities who suffer the injustices of climate change and fossil fuel use today and have been historically marginalized. We have passionate volunteer-led teams across Massachusetts, advocating for a swift transition away from fossil fuels towards clean and renewable energy, and are committed to deepening and expanding this critical movement. As the Senior Organizer, you will work to build teams who carry out effective campaigns that move decision makers to make child-centered climate decisions through a climate-justice lens.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Local Impact

• Support and strengthen community-based/volunteer-empowered Mothers Out Front teams to undertake impactful campaigns that build the engagement and leadership of mothers from diverse ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds to solve our climate crisis at the local and state level
• Increase mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers’ engagement in Mothers Out Front movement building activities by building “snowflake models” with our teams.
• Recruit new volunteers and members to join Mothers Out Front through outreach tactics such as door knocking, phone banks, one-on-one meetings, attending local events and more.
• Provide strategic advice, training, and support for new and existing teams. Help them to  develop strategic campaign plans, actions and materials; set and meet goals; ensure the campaigns are in alignment with the Mothers Out Front mission to effectively make progress toward the elimination of fossil fuels with a climate justice lens toward equity.
• Support member leaders and volunteers of Mothers Out Front to develop relationships with a diverse mix of allied organizations and community leaders.
• Attend local team meetings, help facilitate the meetings, and oversee logistics and outreach.
• Participate and train volunteer members to participate in strategic coalitions that support our movement and increase our visibility;  establish a working relationship with key decision-makers, funders, media and other stakeholders in your state to move the campaign work forward.
• Ensure that key data (including number of people engaged, house parties held, volunteers participating in campaign events, and more) is recorded and tracked in our database, NationBuilder. Recruit and train volunteer data coordinators to ensure all community teams are effectively maximizing the database.
• Recruit members to serve on the statewide leadership team and functional teams to advance the mission of Mothers Out Front.
• Work with team leaders and the Organizing Manager to Identify and implement a path forward to grow our movement in Boston – either by starting new teams or adjusting our current structure.
• Ensure that Boston members have training in core skills needed to grow their chapters, develop new leaders and win climate victories.

State and National Impact 

Support our robust and growing statewide constituency of mothers by periodically taking a lead role in some of the following state and national activities:

• Coordinate occasional “Climate Action Calls” to engage members virtually across the state in simple collective actions;
• Provide training and support to members on the use of digital tools, including Google Groups and NationBuilder;
• Provide support and behind-the-scenes coordination for member-led Welcome Calls;
• Participate in fundraising initiatives as needed, including working with development staff to meet membership goals and providing relevant data, as needed.
• Recruit members to serve on state and national teams

Administrative Duties

• Draft monthly and annual reports.
• Respond in a timely manner to emails, phone calls and Slack messages.
• Submit credit card receipts and reimbursements in a timely manner
• Use our online tools to manage paid-time-off, calendar and expenses.

Education and Experience

• For a senior organizer, at least 3-5 years of experience is required.
• Experience planning, executing and evaluating  strategic campaigns and organizing plans in nonprofit, social justice, or labor campaigns or organizations.
• Experience with creating curriculum and facilitating interactive training for leadership development and civic engagement.
• Experience with fundraising a bonus.
• Relevant life experience may be considered as a substitute for some of the above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High creativity and strategic action. An ability to thrive in a dynamic, goal-oriented, fast-paced, campaign-oriented environment. Ability to work remotely and be productively self-directed and personally organized.
• An understanding of strategic issue campaign development, ideally at the municipal level, including attention to power-building, tactics that influence decision-makers, building effective democratic local organizations, and the use of public narrative and story-telling in campaign organizing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: experienced in active and reflective listening.
• Demonstrated ability and commitment to working with people from a variety of backgrounds, especially different ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It’s also helpful if you have experience working with people from different religious, educational, generational, and gender identity backgrounds as well as those with physical disabilities and from the LGBTQ community.
• The ability to work evenings and weekends, as needed, and to travel across the region/state regularly, as well as attending  national staff and organizing team retreats.
• An understanding of or aptitude for platforms for shared remote work, including Google Suite, Zoom, and Slack.
• Fluency in English and one or more of the other major languages used by newcomers to Boston (i.e., Spanish, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese) preferred.
• Ability to travel to out-of-state meetings for 3-5 days up to two times per year.
• Access to reliable transportation for meetings and events throughout Massachusetts.
• Knowledge of climate  issues a bonus
• Experience with fundraising a bonus

Details: Mothers out Front is a virtual organization. This is a full-time, hybrid job. You will work from a home office and do a significant amount of in-person work throughout Boston.

Salary and benefits: The salary range for the senior organizer position is $50,000 to $65,000. Benefits include health and dental benefits, a 401(k) plan, flexible spending plan, paid vacation, holidays, sick days, and support for remote work set-up. We offer ongoing training opportunities, a fast-paced, dynamic, supportive, and collaborative setting and we are proudly women-led!

Mothers Out Front is an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, LGBTQ members, and members of other historically disenfranchised groups are especially welcome and encouraged to apply.