Digital Organizer

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

A cover letter is recommended for consideration.

Out-of-state selected candidates will be required to relocate to the Oregon/SW Washington area within 60 days of their start date.

Position Summary:

As the Digital Organizer, you will contribute to the organization’s success by leveraging digital engagement strategies to build community power and disrupt systems that drive hunger and poverty. This role will collaborate with Oregon Food Bank’s Strategic Communications team and other Community Organizers to coordinate digital engagement strategies that move an ever-growing base of community leaders up a ladder of engagement. You will utilize base-building tactics across OFB’s volunteer, partner agency, and client communities with a focus on creating movement along a spectrum from service provision towards organizing. 

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Participate in development and implementation organizing projects that build a people of color-led leadership core.
• Support the implementation of digital campaigns that engage, motivate, and grow a people of color-led leadership core — with a particular focus on moving supporters from online to offline engagement. 
• Execute high-impact, integrated, and creative digital plans to achieve short-and long-term organizing and policy goals.
• Utilize digital tools, social media, EveryAction and texting programs to maximize digital list building. 
• Collaborate with Oregon Food Bank’s Strategic Communications team, Community Organizers, and Core leaders to create compelling digital content used in channels.
• Draft and develop targeted emails, SMS alerts, script templates, online action pages, relational organizing tools, digital toolkits, and other digital content to engage supporters within our digital base. 
• Collaborate with and support other Oregon Food Bank Organizers using Every Action to develop strategies to move the Oregon Food Bank Base to advance systems and policy change. 
• Train and coach organizers, staff, and leaders at all levels in digital organizing tools and best practices that support organizing events, actions, and campaigns.
• Engage leadership base in analysis, skills building and action to move them up a ladder of engagement in context of service to systems change.  
•  Assist with executing text banks, phone banks, and other online actions, including setup, list creation, script development, volunteer training, and systems troubleshooting. 
• Identify opportunities to amplify the leadership and stories of leaders as experts through experience.
• Participate in leading organizing trainings within OFB and with our organizational partners as needed.  
• Participate fully in cross-department teams as assigned or as critical to position responsibilities.   
• Participate fully in OFB’s Advocacy, Volunteer and Organizing Team, and share leadership across the team in peer-to-peer collaboration and team development.  
• Participate fully in OFB’s organizational planning processes, data and technology systems, lobbying and finance tracking processes, and organizational equity journey.  
• Organizational-level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism. 
• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
• cross-departmental efforts
• work culture activities and programming
• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision, and mission.  
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 2-3 years experience in community organizing. 
• 2-3 years using constituent relationship management programs for technological tactics for organizing, including but not limited to phone banking, mass texting, social media, virtual community meetings, relational organizing, etc. 
• Administrator-level experience using EveryAction is strongly preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in English with a range of audiences.  
• Outstanding relationship-building skills. Ability to develop and maintain relationships in the context of building relationships for the organization and its mission.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate conflict through effective leadership and problem-solving.
• Ability to drive/valid driver’s license.
• Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture. 
• Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB’s Equity Constituencies: BIPOC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.  
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Organizational-level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:
• Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.  
• Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.  
• Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the worldview and perspectives of others.
• Integration is defined as being able to “code-switch” or move in and out of one’s worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.
• Applicant will use these skills to create strategies that emerge from community needs, skills & engagement styles
• Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.
• Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, pivot to respond to emerging needs, and lead through organizational changes.
• Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.  An additional step for at least 10 years above the minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes.  We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing, and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

 

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity. 

 

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger, and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to applying equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism.  You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.