Immigration Campaign Director
Location: Washington, DC or Northeast/Midwest region
Date: March 2012
About the Center for Community Change
The Center for Community Change is committed to help build powerful and dynamic movements in diverse communities across America that will be the impetus for creating a society in which everyone has enough to thrive and achieve their full potential. Inspired by a belief in the dignity of all people, the Center has been instrumental in the fight for comprehensive and fair immigration reform, a push for a bold jobs agenda, and protecting essential retirement security programs. The Center played a major role in recent positive changes to immigration laws that will keep thousands of immigrant families together. Our Housing Trust Fund Project has helped bring affordable housing to millions of people.
For further information please visit our website at: www.communitychange.org.
Position Description:
The Immigration Campaign Director is responsible for implementing a nationally coordinated campaign with FIRM member organizations focused on building the power and capacity of the immigrant rights movement and achieving state and federal policy change. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, experienced organizer, good manager, and strategic thinker capable of producing consistent quality work in a fast-paced environment.
This position reports to: Executive Director or Managing Director
Principal Responsibilities:
- Represent CCC and FIRM with national allies and coordinate institutional relationships
- Serve as primary staff person of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a project of CCC.
- Build and nurture relationships with local, state and national immigration organizations across the country, and assist in promoting collective action on common agendas, specifically field strategies to win comprehensive immigration reform
- Supervise and mentor the CCC’s Immigration Team staff.
- Develop and implement fundraising strategies (online, small donors and foundation) and act as primary relationship holder with key immigration funders; develop and monitor budgets.
- Work with CCC’s Communications and Online Departments to elevate attention to immigrant issues and campaigns in traditional and new media.
- Coordinate field/online strategies to build the list of immigration reform supporters across the country.
- Ensure that Immigration Team goals and strategies connect with the broader work of CCC.
- Serve on the Senior Leadership Team and other ad hoc leadership teams; provide strategic direction towards CCC’s overall goals.
Qualifications:
- Five to ten years of organizing experience with community-based, grassroots, and/or coalition organizations.
- Experience in supervising a team of organizers, and working at a high level in strategic partnerships.
- Familiarity with immigration reform issues in the United States, including federal comprehensive immigration reform, the DREAM Act, DHS enforcement policies, and state and local immigration initiatives is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with grassroots advocacy, at either the federal or state level, including experience with national campaigns to secure policy change.
- Familiarity with online technology (email/sms/mobile tools) and electoral tools (VAN, Catalist) for use in field campaigns.
- Fundraising experience with social justice/community organizing foundations.
- Knowledge of and relationships with key national advocacy and policy organizations in the immigration field is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to conceive and execute creative, breakthrough strategic initiatives to achieve goals.
- Demonstrated ability to create a sense of community among disparate organizations and leaders towards common purpose.
- Capacity and willingness to travel frequently.
- Ability to operate at multiple levels, with attention to the broad goals and vision of CCC, as well as the specific mission of the Immigration Team.
- Experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to work effectively with people of different cultures.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to produce consistent, quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to speak Spanish is preferred.
Salary & Benefits: CCC offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.
Closing Date of Position: Open Until Filled
How to apply: Please submit resume, a cover letter that includes salary expectations and at least two writing samples to:
employment@communitychange.org
(Fax) 202-387-4891
