Job Description
How to Apply
Please send a cover letter, resume, and 3 references with contact information to [email protected] .The job posting can be found on and .
Application deadline: Until filled, priority screening deadline April 25, 2025.
Organization Background The Action Council of Monterey County was created in 1994 to address unmet needs of low-income residents due to welfare reform. It has since evolved into a hub for social innovation, incubation, and cross-sector collaboration. Action’s mission is to empower people to transform their communities by incubating leaders, ideas, organizations, and collaborative action. It has incubated Building Healthy Communities (BHC), Mujeres en Acción, and other grassroots organizations.
Building Healthy Communities Monterey County (BHCMC) engages and develops community leadership to achieve equitable outcomes in health, education, and economic opportunity. Coordinated through Action Teams, BHCMC works towards policy and systems change grounded in a healing-informed racial justice framework.
Position Overview Under the general supervision of the Regional Education Equity and Justice Director, the Education Lead Organizer (ELO) will be committed to ensuring that residents have a voice and leadership in addressing racial justice issues related to education and public policy in Monterey County. The ELO is committed to effectively engage multiple partners to advance a racial equity framework with policy or systems change outcomes, and assumes a high level of responsibility for connecting people from diverse constituency groups within the community around education related issues. The ELO is also responsible for lifting up the intersection of all BHC MC work with the education work.
The ELO is the staff responsible for supervising and supporting all organizers and interns focused on education. The ELO will be primarily focused on supporting the current base building and healing-informed organizing within education as well as its expansion/growth. The ELO has high-level skills and experience in community organizing, project management, group facilitation, group development, and conflict resolution. The ELO will be the connector for organizing work and the racial equity for systems change work.
Primary Job Functions Organizing and base-building:
- Supervise organizers as they coordinate and facilitate the growth and evolution of their resident committees
- Oversee all education organizing and base building work across Monterey County (currently engaged in: Salinas, Seaside/Peninsula, Soledad and Greenfield)
- Support base-building and healing-informed organizing capacity of organizers and interns
- Support the development and implementation of each education resident committee strategy chart and individual work plans
- Regularly set up one on ones with residents and potential leaders
- Support organizers to identify and engage resident leaders in education to advance along a resident leadership ladder
- Expand resident engagement and support organizers to develop leadership pathways development opportunities to shift policies and practices
- Support personal and professional leadership development of education organizers
Coordination and Facilitation of the Education Equity and Justice Action Team:
- Coordinate, convene, and facilitate the Education Equity Action Team composed of education organizers, leaders, and other relevant stakeholders
- Support the Education Equity Action Team with strategy building, cross-team capacity building, and communication
- Support the Education Equity and Justice Team to embody the work of Dismantling the School to the Prison Pipeline and build Black and Brown Solidarity and Power
- Identify opportunities to link the BHC Action Teams to each other and to external partners
- Maintain progress of Action Team and resident committee policy and systems change goals
- Use NationBuilder or new identified platform to monitor evaluation/progress of Education Organizers and support Action Team learning and evaluation goals in partnership with Learning and Evaluation Consultant
- Play a leadership role in the statewide Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) and the local Central Coast Movement Building (CCMB) efforts and statewide work
Strategic Relationships:
- Cultivate and maintain working relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders (residents, CBO’s, government, funders, etc.) in Monterey County toward supporting the implementation of an inclusive decision-making culture within education
- Play a role in external communications regarding Education Equity and Justice events and initiatives as needed
Capacity Building, Advocacy, and Education:
- In collaboration with the Regional Education Equity Director, support in engaging and building capacity of system leaders in modifying practices, policies and culture to advance racial equity and justice
- In collaboration with the Learning and Evaluation Consultant support the development of capacity building trainings, offer analysis to support shift towards equitable budgets and decision making in education
- Support the development of opportunities for expanding knowledge and expertise in areas related to Action Team issues, as needed
- Support organizers and leaders to engaged in fundraising strategies in collaboration with the Fund Development Director and Support Team
- Support the leadership development of interns to move across the leadership ladder
Leadership in Racial Equity & Systems Change
- Maintain a working knowledge of racial equity practices to engage system leaders in modifying practices to advance racial equity and justice
- Engage a framework for understanding and disrupting structural bias and inequities and actively apply it to the work in the community
Other duties as assigned.
Requirements - 3+ years of experience in community organizing
- 2+ experience in education and policy advocacy
- 2+ years of experience of supervising staff
- 1+ years of experience facilitating meetings and/or workshops using collaborative and participatory methods
- 1+ years of experience managing projects
- 1+ years working with community members and with systems leaders
- Experience as a lead organizer preferred
- Must reside in Monterey County and have the ability to travel across Monterey County
Skills/Abilities - Bilingual English and Spanish
- Basic computer skills [(Google Applications, social media (FB, twitter, Instagram)]
- Active knowledge and interest in racial equity, public policy and systems change
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects
- Flexibility of schedule, ability to work some nights and weekends
- Ability to create and foster a supportive learning environment
- Creative thinker and problem‐solver who is also open to the insight of others
- Friendly communications skills in person and over phone
- Comfortable and skilled at facilitating difficult conversations and managing conflict
- Active listening skills, including the ability to summarize or articulate key points
- Ability to give, receive and incorporate constructive feedback
- Ability to translate complex information to diverse audiences
- A willingness to deepen healing informed practices
- Ability to travel occasionally to meetings, trainings, and conferences
- Must possess a valid California Driver’s License and verifiable automobile insurance and have the use of a reasonably reliable automobile for use on the job
Benefits: Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision and 403(b). We also provide competitive vacation, and sick leave. We value the well-being and health of our employees, which is why our benefits package also includes two yearly office closures of the organization mid-year and at the end of the year that will be considered paid holiday time off. Benefits are available when an employee completes the introductory period and meets eligibility.
Physical Demands - The employee should be able to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and hear, use hands, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk.
- Able to lift a 30-pound box and carry it 100 feet; push a hand truck/ dolly with a load of 150 pounds a distance of 100 yards; and access items on shelves in files located 0 to 60 inches above the floor.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Values: Resident centered / Resident voice, Power building, Equity, Compassion, Healing, Dignity, Authenticity, Love, Unity, Solidarity, Justice, Affirmation, Inclusion, and People matter and are valued.
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