Oakland, California, United States · Hybrid
$75k–$80k/yr
The Opportunity Essie Justice Group (Essie) is building grassroots power to dismantle the US incarceration system, the most egregious creator of racial and gender injustice of our time. We are a loving and powerful commu…
Skills: Community Organizing, Relational Organizing, Member Recruitment, Campaign Strategy, Leadership Development
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The Senior Community Organizer recruits and stewards women with incarcerated loved ones to build grassroots power and leadership. They implement campaign tactics and use data-driven insights to strengthen member engagement and organizational effectiveness.
Candidates need 3-4+ years of organizing experience and a strong commitment to gender and race justice. Proficiency in Google Suite, MS Office, and excellent communication skills are required.
The Opportunity
Essie Justice Group (Essie) is building grassroots power to dismantle the US incarceration system, the most egregious creator of racial and gender injustice of our time. We are a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones. Our community includes cisgender women, transgender women, formerly incarcerated women, gender expansive people, elders, and young people.
After eleven years of building an active membership across California and beyond, Essie is deepening its base-building and leadership development strategies with the 1 in 4 women with incarcerated loved ones to propel bold decarceration agendas across the nation. We seek to transform the criminal legal system and create a Black feminist future rooted in care, equity, community safety, and liberation. Essie is waging ever more ambitious campaigns to divest from state-sponsored punitive control and invest in structures that support the self-determination, freedom, and dignity of Black women and gender nonconforming people.
In a period of continued organizational growth, Essie seeks a people-oriented, adaptable, and highly motivated Senior Community Organizer to join us in building and implementing campaigns to upend systems of control and confinement.
The Senior Community Organizer brings clarity to organizing strategy, rigor to tracking member engagement, and deep care to building a strong and connected membership base. They recruit women with incarcerated loved ones into Essie’s political home and steward their continued participation through meaningful organizing opportunities, leadership pathways, and campaign involvement. Building strong, relational connections with members, they get to know individuals’ strengths, stories, and interests in order to support their leadership in committees, advocacy efforts, and public actions. They track participation trends, analyze engagement data, and use these insights to strengthen retention and organizing strategy. Working cross-functionally, they manage organizing projects, create member- and partner-facing materials, and help ensure our organizing work advances Essie’s campaign priorities and builds the political power of families impacted by incarceration.
Core Responsibilities
Member Recruitment and Retention: Recruit women with incarcerated loved ones to join our membership and use effective techniques in relational organizing to continuously engage and create a political home for our members.
Member Activation & Engagement in Campaign Tactics: Carry out activations, mobilizations, and other tactics to achieve advocacy objectives.
Strategic Stewardship & Data-Driven Project Ownership: Lead high-level planning and execution of member engagement and campaign initiatives by leveraging data and insights to inform strategy.
Who We’re Looking For
Ideal Qualifications
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The Position
The Senior Community Organizer is a full-time, salaried, exempt position. This position is supervised by the
Director of Organizing Programs. The salary for this position is between $75,000- $80,000 depending on experience, with full medical, dental, and vision benefits, optional 401(k), a substantial vacation package, and a monthly personal wellness stipend. The position is based at Essie’s Los Angeles office.
To Apply
Please address a personal, specific, and thoughtful cover letter to the “Essie Hiring Committee” and submit along with a resume through our hiring portal (https://essiejusticegroup.bamboohr.com/jobs). Your resume tells us what you can do; your cover letter should tell us who you are and why you want to work with Essie.
Essie Justice Group provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all staff members. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and skills. Essie does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, ancestry, age, size, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, familial status, veteran status, disability, AIDS/HIV status, medical condition, prior conviction, arrest history, traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Essie values and specifically seeks applicants who are people with incarcerated loved ones; formerly incarcerated people; people of color; women; queer, transgender, gender expansive, and gender fluid people.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, performance assessment, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
About Essie Justice Group
Essie Justice Group is a non profit organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration. Our award-winning Healing to Advocacy Model brings women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change. Essie is
Great Place to Work-Certified™ by Great Place to Work.
Learn more at www.essiejusticegroup.org.
Harnessing the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones.
Essie Justice Group is the nation’s leading organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration. We are building a loving and powerful network to equip women with incarcerated loved ones with the tools and resources to heal family, community, and make social change. Using our innovative Healing to Advocacy curriculum, designed by and for women, we seed groups for women to give and receive support. With nearly 2 million people living behind bars in the United States, millions of women with incarcerated loved ones are left behind. Today, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 2 Black women have a family member in prison. Women with loved ones behind bars face stigma and isolation and are regularly left to care for children, family, and finances alone. Together, we work with women to access their collective power as leaders and advocates building a movement for change in communities and American society.
Offices: 318 Harrison St, Suite 200, Oakland, California 94607, US
Harnessing the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones.
Essie Justice Group is the nation’s leading organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration. We are building a loving and powerful network to equip women with incarcerated loved ones with the tools and resources to heal family, community, and make social change. Using our innovative Healing to Advocacy curriculum, designed by and for women, we seed groups for women to give and receive support. With nearly 2 million people living behind bars in the United States, millions of women with incarcerated loved ones are left behind. Today, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 2 Black women have a family member in prison. Women with loved ones behind bars face stigma and isolation and are regularly left to care for children, family, and finances alone. Together, we work with women to access their collective power as leaders and advocates building a movement for change in communities and American society.
Offices: 318 Harrison St, Suite 200, Oakland, California 94607, US
