Employment type: Part-Time (20hrs/wk)
Salary Range: $17/Hr
POSITION: Community Organizer
RESPONSIBLE TO: Executive Director
SUMMARY: Part-time Community Organizer focused on building community, movement, and political power in the NM LGBTQ community statewide through relationship building and mobilization.
Job Explanation: Equality New Mexico is a statewide LGBTQ political advocacy, public education, and movement-building organization. We have been working to achieve LGBTQ liberation in New Mexico for 29 years, and are setting the stage for our second 30 years. We are working to rebuild a community-driven movement to shift policy and systems in New Mexico, by including and centering the voices of Queer and Trans New Mexicans. Our Community Organizer will be critical in this process, meeting, recruiting, training, and mobilizing members to support and lead the work of EQNM at the State, Local, and School Board levels.
This position is responsible for:
Communicating with our members regularly via email, phone, text, and in person.
Recruiting activists and volunteers to take actions on behalf of EQNM, including phone banking, door-to-door canvassing, text banking, and attending in-person events for political action.
Maintaining our membership database (with support from volunteers and other staff.)
One-on-one meetings with potential volunteers and leaders, recruiting for volunteer activities, and turnout to events.
The Organizer may travel around the state occasionally, but it will not be a significant portion of the job.
Required Skills, Competencies & Experience:
Ability to develop public relationships with new people not yet engaged in organizing or movement work
Move people into public life in order to impact policy decisions (training will be provided)
No previous organizing experience is needed just have a desire to learn and be open to growth and development
Ability to connect the dots between people, organizations, and struggles for justice through strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
Values rigor and a desire to not just get things done, but get things done well.
Who should apply?
You should be eager to participate in the larger movement for Queer and Trans liberation in New Mexico. You should be excited to learn new skills, eager to perfect the ones you have developed, open to feedback, and proactively seek new tips, tricks, and best practices. You like meeting new people, enjoy getting to know them, and feel compelled to involve the people around you in the movement for action and change in our communities. You are proficient in the use of technology and social media, but you understand that activism and political power isn’t built entirely online. You find yourself hearing peers and friends talking about what's going on around us, and thinking about the ways they could be changed. You don’t seek to be the face of every solution, but you are always looking for ways to help others become the solution. The ideal candidate will meet most of these requirements. However, if you are committed to protecting LGBTQ New Mexicans and care about elections, and want to learn how to be an organizer, please apply!
We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. All interested individuals, especially people of color, women, persons with disabilities, and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, or intersex are encouraged to apply.