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Position Title: Action Corps Coordinator
Time Commitment: 20-25 hours/week (flexible schedule, includes some evening and weekend work)
Desired Start Date: September 13, 2021
Location: New York City; San Francisco; or Washington, DC
Time Commitment: 20-25 hours/week (flexible schedule, includes some evening and weekend work)
Desired Start Date: September 13, 2021
Location: New York City; San Francisco; or Washington, DC
Summary: Action Corps, a grassroots humanitarian education and advocacy organization, seeks a coordinator to support organizers with achieving results for its global justice campaigns. This includes both legislative advocacy and growing the capacity of a nationwide network of organizers.
Instructions: Send cover letter in body of email to [email protected] with resume attached, with “Coordinator” in the subject line.
Role Description: The position will involve working with grassroots activists and DC-based organizations to build U.S. support for a global stimulus from the International Monetary Fund.
Reports to: Action Corps Director
Position Summary:
Key Functions:
Desired Experience and Attributes:
About Action Corps:
What is Action Corps? Action Corps is a grassroots initiative to build people power in solidarity with people around the world. The organization is focused on U.S. policies in solidarity with people from Yemen and Burma, communities most affected by climate disasters, and low-income countries dealing with COVID-19. Action Corps brings together diverse actors for humanitarian advocacy, connecting grassroots activists to NGOs, media and members of Congress.
Action Corps grew out of Oxfam and currently has 25 organizers in 10 states. In 2019, Action Corps became a fiscally sponsored project of the Social Good Fund, which provides administrative services and legal oversight.
Where is Action Corps Active? Action Corps currently has active organizers and board members in the following ten states: CA, IA, ID, IN, FL, MA, MN, NY, RI, VA. Action Corps also has an organizer in Washington, DC.
What has Action Corps Achieved? Action Corps played a pivotal role in the passage of the historic bipartisan Yemen War Powers Resolution to stop U.S. participation in the devastating war in Yemen. In 2020, Action Corps led the grassroots effort that led to the House of Representatives passing global COVID relief legislation. Action Corps has achieved these victories via rallies, op-eds, letters to the editor, community forums, and letters, phone calls and visits to elected officials.
What are Action Corps’ Current Campaigns? Action Corps is playing a key leadership role for a robust global economic response to COVID, bringing together the likes of the AFL-CIO, Amnesty International, Oxfam America, Presbyterian Church USA, and Iowa Farmers Union, for the U.S. to unblock a global stimulus. In 2020, after coordinating the advocacy effort that resulted in global stimulus legislation passing the U.S. House of Representatives, Action Corps held meetings with 34 U.S. Senate offices on this topic, securing support from both Democrats and Republicans. Action Corps continues to bring together organizations representing tens of millions of Americans to push Congress and the Administration to unblock this global stimulus.
Action Corps is also co-leading a coalition for U.S. legislative action to lift the Saudi-imposed blockade of Yemen, enabled by the U.S., which has helped cause the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth. Action Corps is supporting U.S. legislative advocacy campaigns in solidarity with ethnic peoples in Burma and in solidarity with people around the world affected first and worst by climate change.
Read about our campaigns on our organization’s website: https://www.actioncorps.org/
Equal Opportunity Policy: Action Corps seeks to create a diverse team. We encourage people from all ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, generational, and religious backgrounds to apply.
Reports to: Action Corps Director
- Anticipated Benefits to Employee:
- Significant opportunity for professional growth within the organization
- Opportunity to build varied skills
- Mentoring from organization’s director
- Opportunities to connect with staff at humanitarian and policy organizations
Position Summary:
Key Functions:
- Coordinate Action Corps’ organization-wide participation in campaign-related activities, working closely with Action Corps director and local Action Corps organizers to implement campaign strategies through constituent and coalition meetings with members of Congress, letters to the editor, and other efforts to achieve our policy goals.
- Grow, enable, and support grassroots and citizen advocates to take action on campaigns around global humanitarian concerns. Specifically, support Action Corps organizers by advising and coordinating the steering committee; planning recurring nationwide organizer calls; mentoring, and tracking and implementing organizer retention strategies.s.
- Create and implement campaign calls to action for organizers and members of the public, asking organizers to take action for our campaigns and drafting templates of letters to members of Congress.
- Coordinate media outreach efforts, including drafting press releases, targeted letters to the editor initiatives by organizers and local teams, and op-eds.
- Conduct periodic outreach to congressional offices in support of Action Corps campaigns to increase engagement outside of lobby visits. This includes providing campaign updates to congressional staff in the form of both e-blasts and 1:1 outreach.
- Manage Action Corps’ online presence, including coordinating social media team and their messaging on central social media accounts, website, and mass email platform.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired Experience and Attributes:
- One to two years minimum experience campaigning or community organizing
- Belief in global justice, humanitarian goals, grassroots activism, and legislative advocacy
- Self starter with willingness to build momentum for campaigns
- Strong goal setting and follow-through, and willingness to ask people for commitment to action and to follow up with them for results
- Collaborative spirit with strong communication skills, willing to work in bipartisan fashion, with people from diverse organizations
- Self-care practices including clear communication of capacity, boundaries, and need for support
About Action Corps:
What is Action Corps? Action Corps is a grassroots initiative to build people power in solidarity with people around the world. The organization is focused on U.S. policies in solidarity with people from Yemen and Burma, communities most affected by climate disasters, and low-income countries dealing with COVID-19. Action Corps brings together diverse actors for humanitarian advocacy, connecting grassroots activists to NGOs, media and members of Congress.
Action Corps grew out of Oxfam and currently has 25 organizers in 10 states. In 2019, Action Corps became a fiscally sponsored project of the Social Good Fund, which provides administrative services and legal oversight.
Where is Action Corps Active? Action Corps currently has active organizers and board members in the following ten states: CA, IA, ID, IN, FL, MA, MN, NY, RI, VA. Action Corps also has an organizer in Washington, DC.
What has Action Corps Achieved? Action Corps played a pivotal role in the passage of the historic bipartisan Yemen War Powers Resolution to stop U.S. participation in the devastating war in Yemen. In 2020, Action Corps led the grassroots effort that led to the House of Representatives passing global COVID relief legislation. Action Corps has achieved these victories via rallies, op-eds, letters to the editor, community forums, and letters, phone calls and visits to elected officials.
What are Action Corps’ Current Campaigns? Action Corps is playing a key leadership role for a robust global economic response to COVID, bringing together the likes of the AFL-CIO, Amnesty International, Oxfam America, Presbyterian Church USA, and Iowa Farmers Union, for the U.S. to unblock a global stimulus. In 2020, after coordinating the advocacy effort that resulted in global stimulus legislation passing the U.S. House of Representatives, Action Corps held meetings with 34 U.S. Senate offices on this topic, securing support from both Democrats and Republicans. Action Corps continues to bring together organizations representing tens of millions of Americans to push Congress and the Administration to unblock this global stimulus.
Action Corps is also co-leading a coalition for U.S. legislative action to lift the Saudi-imposed blockade of Yemen, enabled by the U.S., which has helped cause the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth. Action Corps is supporting U.S. legislative advocacy campaigns in solidarity with ethnic peoples in Burma and in solidarity with people around the world affected first and worst by climate change.
Read about our campaigns on our organization’s website: https://www.actioncorps.org/
Equal Opportunity Policy: Action Corps seeks to create a diverse team. We encourage people from all ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, generational, and religious backgrounds to apply.
