Overview
Make Road Statewide Director of Organizing Jobs in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA at NRG Consulting Group
Position: Make the Road  Statewide Director of Organizing
Statewide Director of Organizing
Full-Time Exempt
Senior Management
Elizabeth, NJ, US
Salary Range:$ To $ Annually
About Us:
Make the Road States (MRstates) is the national home for the second-generation Make the Road family of organizations in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada, this in addition to New York, that serves to uplift the voices of working-class, immigrants, women, LGBTQIA people, and people of color across the Make the Roads umbrella. From an operational spectrum it serves as the Finance and Human Resources Compliance Officers for the umbrella at large.
Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ) builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity andrespectthrough community organizing, the provision of high-quality legal and support services, transformativeeducationand policyinnovation. MRNJ is a project of Make the Road States. Founded in 2014, MRNJ operates centers and organizing hubs in Elizabeth, Passaic, Perth Amboy and Newark, NJ that reach thousands of immigrant and working-class people of color each year.
Our member-led organizing committees — which work on the issues named above– implement strategies to combat shared problems, and developleadershipand the capacity for civic participation. In the past four years, MRNJ has won more than 10 pro-immigrant and pro-worker policies, including the nation’s first guaranteed severance law, landmark anti-wage theft legislation, occupational and drivers’ license for undocumented immigrants and a $15 minimum wage.
We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services including ESOL, legal services in the areas of immigration and workplace rights, workplacesafety trainingand college access.
Current Opening:
The Full-Time Statewide Director of Organizing is responsible for supervising MRNJ’s housing, immigration and youth organizing programs. The Director will supervise MRNJ’s community organizers and will oversee all aspects of growing the department, including base building,leadership development, resource development, developing issue campaigns and strategic communications. The Director of Organizing will also work with the Make the Road Action political director on civic engagement and electoral work.
Key Responsibilities:
Organizing &Advocacy(35%)
Develop organizing campaigns that build and transform the power of our base – immigrants, tenants, workers and young people
Identify policy research andadvocacyopportunities in alignment with the vision, mission and core values of MRNJ and grow our pool of coalition allies in those efforts
Direct the implementation of outreach and recruitment efforts to grow our organization’s membership base
Strengthen our membership recruitment and retention models, including advancing membership blitzes and new member orientations
Collaborate closely with key local, statewide and national coalition partners and elected leaders
Lead coordination of civic engagement initiatives, including, but not limited to, voter registration efforts and Get Out the Vote efforts
Support organizer preparation for actions, events and trainings;
Coordinate and support organizing department annual events including membership assembly, May Day
Represent the organization at external meetings, coalition tables and conferences.
Organizing Team Management (35%)
Provide supervision, support andprofessional development opportunities…
Title: Make Road Statewide Director of Organizing
Company: NRG Consulting Group
Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Management
