Change.org Job Opening

From Change.org:

Deputy Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights

Want to help create and lead the world’s largest organizing platform for immigrant rights? Change.org is the fastest growing platform for social change on the web, gaining more than 250,000 new members a month and pioneering a new model of collective action that empowers anyone, anywhere, to start their own social action campaigns to change their community, city, or country.

The Deputy Director will work hand-in-hand with the Director of Organizing for Immigrant Rights in managing our advocacy and organizing efforts across the U.S. and the globe — crafting and executing rapid-response campaigns while helping millions of activists start and successfully run their own local campaigns around pressing immigrant rights issues.

While applicants based in Washington, DC, New York, or San Francisco are preferred, we are flexible on location if the right person requires it. Pay and benefits are very competitive. This job is exceptionally fast-paced and can sometimes require work at night and on the weekend, dependent on campaign needs.

The Deputy Director of Organizing, Immigrant Rights will:

Work with the Director of Organizing to design and execute rapid-response advocacy campaigns with the potential for explosive growth and swift victories.
Track promising grassroots campaigns started by activists on Change.org, and help these campaigns win by developing campaign-related actions and  articles, conducting media outreach, and promoting content across the web using social media platforms.
Identify potential Immigrant Rights action campaigns before they happen by keeping an eye on local, state, and federal legislation and monitoring immigrant rights blogs and news sources on a daily basis.
Help establish and maintain deep partnerships with other leading immigrant rights organizations – both local and global in scope.
Collaborate daily with a team of Change.org staff and organizers to identify opportunities for creating effective grassroots campaigns that win measurable social change.
Utilize and leverage social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to help advance grassroots campaigns on the Change.org platform.
The ideal candidate should have the following:

Strong verbal and written communication skills; Spanish or other foreign language skills ideal, but not required.
Immigrant rights campaigning experience and an understanding of key issues including the DREAM Act, deportation and asylum, labor rights, Arizona-style copycat laws, corporate exploitation, hate crimes, immigrant portrayal in the media, detention and for-profit prisons, and many other related areas.
Innovative ideas for how to use online organizing to win local, national, and international campaigns – and a willingness to take risks, to fail and to adapt.
A strong interest in aiding local, member-driven online organizing campaigns and developing member capacity for ever-larger campaigns. (This is the backbone of our work and what we see as the biggest opportunity for transformational change.)
A track record of executing effective local and/or national campaigns with a concrete theory of change and specific, measurable results.
Experience activating and growing communities of fans/followers on Facebook and Twitter
A track record of successful organizing within diverse communities; candidates with an immigrant background encouraged to apply.
 
To apply, please send a brief introductory email and your resume (or a link to your LinkedIn profile) to ImmigrantRightsDeputy@change.org

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