Pacific County Voices Uniting  (PCVU) is hiring a full time Organizing Director in Pacific County. The Organizing Director will be a valued member of the PCVU Team and report to the Executive Director. This position will work on average 32-40 hours per week within the pay range of $32-35 per hour depending on experience. After 90 days, PCVU offers medical/vision and dental insurance to employees (and their families), 401k retirement plan and up to 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Depending on FTE, employees will receive up to 6.7 hours of vacation and up to 4.3 hours of sick leave every month. PCVU is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We understand that excellent candidates do not always fit all the requested criteria in our job descriptions. If you are passionate about our purpose and willing to learn, we encourage you to apply. For interested applicants, please submit your cover letter and resume to info@pcvu.org. We strongly encourage black, indigenous, people of color, immigrants, refugees, LGTBQIA2S+ community, and people living with both seen and unseen disabilities.

PCVU is a 100% BIPOC-led organization that aims to shift, balance, and develop a culture of healthy civic engagement. PCVU stands with all people of Pacific County in seeking racial, political, social, economic, immigrant, environmental, and disability justice for the most historically underrepresented in our communities: Black, Indigenous, Mexican/Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, peoples of color, the LGTBQIA2S+ community, and people living with both seen and unseen disabilities.

Position Responsibilities

Leadership

• Minimum of five years experience organizing and two years in leadership positions

• Lead the development and implementation of the yearly field plan to engage community members 

• Lead and supervise organizing field program and planning

• Lead candidate endorsement process internally and externally

• Supervise, train, develop, and support Lead Organizer and Community Engagement Organizers to reach goals 

• Organize and host Local Candidate Forums

• Conduct annual reviews for the leadership team

Collaboration

• Work with the Lead Organizer to provide program meetings while maintaining a team approach to achieve organizational goals; model organizational culture of learning and growth

• Co-create and maintain a Direct Lobby Toolkit with the Communications Storytelling Specialist

• Assist with the development of strategic long-term organizing fundraising 

• Attend staff, Leadership Circle, program, and other relevant meetings as necessary

• Co-create an environment of healing informed care to reduce and prevent further harm to organizers and community members

• Provide an understanding of trauma-informed care to support organizers working with community members dealing with traumatic experiences and foster an environment for collective community care

Preferred Experience

• Experience with the Voter Action Network (VAN) and MiniVAN

• Experience in running a candidate or local/state policy campaign  

• Experience in managing diverse teams

Work Environment

• The working environment will be a mix of indoor, outdoor, physical, and stationary depending on the electoral and/or legislative season 

• This position is hybrid and PCVU has office locations in Ilwaco & Raymond to accommodate office hours

• Applicants residing outside of Pacific County will be accepted, one does not need to live within Pacific County to apply for this position, however, relocation will be negotiated