Protect & Build Campaign Organizer (CO, GA, LA, MI, NC)

About Community Change and Community Change Action:

Community Change builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to lead powerful and dynamic movements for social change. With our community-based partner groups, we bridge the grassroots and the national, supporting outsider strategies to disrupt the status quo while also building pathways to influence the insider conversation. 

Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform.

This position also supports Community Change Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. While motivated by the same core values – equity, inclusion, and justice – Community Change and Community Change Action operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.

Position Description: 

This is a full-time position that is contracted for one year. The Protect & Build Campaign organizer will play a critical role in advancing Community Change and Community Change Action’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign and State Powerbuilding Strategy. The Protect & Build Organizer will be a key part of a peer team of organizers responsible for base-building, leadership development, campaign planning, and infrastructure development in targeted states (CO, GA, LA, MI, NC).

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in powerbuilding with low-income communities across race, gender and ability; is passionate about organizing and is ready to collaborate to build a base of Medicaid recipients and their caregivers. This role requires a strategic, adaptive, and highly relational organizer with a strong campaign orientation.

A portion of time will be spent working with Community Change’s sister organization, Community Change Action.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Lead implementation of Community Change’s Protect & Build Our Safety Net campaign by building and supporting the Medicaid Union.
• Organize impacted individuals through direct outreach, 1:1s, and leadership development to build a durable base and help shift power.
• Support state-based powerbuilding efforts in CO, GA, LA, MI, and NC, integrating long-term organizing, base-building, and campaign strategies across issue areas.
• Work with grassroots partners to execute state/federal campaigns focused on protecting Medicaid/SNAP and building new governing power.
• Contribute to the development and execution of field plans aimed at influencing specific targets in alignment with national campaign goals.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (policy, communications, digital, development) to support campaign messaging, narrative development, and organizing integration.
• Identify and cultivate potential leaders.
• Provide peer support to fellow Organizers; collaborate on shared strategies and rapid response organizing.
• Track progress and report on leadership development, base growth, field metrics, and deliverables.
• Support partner organizations to strengthen their organizing infrastructure and alignment with long-term powerbuilding strategies.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in community, electoral, or labor organizing, with a track record in base-building.
• An understanding of Medicaid, SNAP, or other social safety net programs, especially in a political or organizing context.
• Experience organizing in rural areas or with cross-partisan constituencies preferred.
• Strong campaign planning skills, with the ability to move targets, build coalitions, and integrate organizing with communications and policy advocacy.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and organize people across lines of race, class, and geography.
• Experience with leadership development and training models rooted in a powerbuilding framework.
• Strong commitment to racial, economic, and gender justice.
• Ability to travel up to 35–45% and work flexible hours as needed.
• Proficiency with digital organizing tools, Google Workspace, and databases like Salesforce.
• Understanding and use of research to inform work.
• Facilitation and training skills.
• Strong team player, familiar with team dynamics and willing to work in a team environment; experience and comfort working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Supervisory Responsibility: N/A

Travel Requirements: Up to 35-45%.

Salary and Benefits: Salary range of $75,000-$90,000 annually. Community Change also offers an excellent benefits package, which includes 4 weeks of annual paid vacation; additional paid holiday leave between December 24 and January 1 and a Summer Break the week of July 4th; 8% employer contribution to a retirement account after six months of employment (and 3% employer contribution for the first 6 months); cell phone and internet stipend; and a choice of generous health insurance plans.

Classification: Community Change recognizes a staff bargaining unit affiliated with IFPTE Local 70, a union for non-profit workers. This position is included in Community Change's bargaining unit and covered under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. This is a one-year position.

Location: Must be based in Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, or North Carolina. This is an in-person, field-based position with on the ground organizing required. 

Equal Opportunity: Our vision of a better world centers the leadership of impacted people of color to move our work on immigrant rights, economic justice, and racial equity, including a focus on jobs and housing, early childhood care and education, income supports, and immigration reform. We strongly encourage the interest and applications of people of color, women, and people in the disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. Community Change is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Closing Date of Position: Open Until Filled

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