Senior Distributed Organizing Manager

POSITION SUMMARY 

We are seeking a motivated, tenacious, and creative professional to serve as our statewide Senior Distributed Organizing Senior Manager or Distributed Organizing Manager (based on experience).  Reporting to the Senior Director of Community Impact this role manages California YIMBY’s engagement with our growing network of YIMBY partner organizations and volunteers, suppors grassroots activists and allies, and aids in coalition building around state-wide policy priorities. 

California YIMBY is a mostly remote team with staff across California including offices in Sacramento and San Francisco. This role can be based anywhere in the state but if in the Bay Area or Sacramento, you may need to be in the Sacramento or San Francisco office one or two days per week. 

Join our movement to transform California’s built environmentand provide millions with economic and social mobility through abundant, affordable, and well-located housing. Together, we can restore economic prosperity, and create vibrant, inclusive, and livable communities for everyone. 

Location: Remote work available anywhere in California; Preference for Los Angeles

Salary: Senior Distributed Organizing Manager: $85k-$100k/Distributed Organizing Manager: $70K-$85K depending on experience + health insurance (with dependents options), vision and dental, 4 weeks paid vacation, sick leave, personal holiday, 401K with employer contributions, life insurance, and disability insurance

Apply by: Rolling applications accepted until position filled; review of applicants will begin on September 3rd, 2024

Start date:  Position is open immediately with a target start date on or before November 1, 2024.  

DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

Program Management

1. Manage our direct engagement with volunteers and network of YIMBY partner orgs. Ensure they feel empowered, respected, and deeply connected 

to our California YIMBY movement and each other while moving them up the ladder of engagement

2. Build and maintain a calendar of regularly scheduled check-ins and follow up with YIMBY partner organizations
3. Marshall the dissemination of key messaging, legislative and political updates, and other relevant information to YIMBY partner organizations
4. Ensure ongoing program improvement by measuring performance to goal, aggregating ongoing feedback, and making recommendations for program improvement

Capacity Building 

1. Empower local organizing through management of our Volunteer Training Program and monthly training schedule, orientation on our suite of tools and resources, and coaching on community outreach, local organizing,  and coalition building
2. Develop and maintain an online volunteer toolkit with a comprehensive library of resources and training, while identifying and addressing the needs of volunteers and partner organizations through internal coordination.
3. Ensure newly engaged and motivated volunteers are connected to their local partner organizations or have the opportunity to utilize our tools to start their own where local  teams/orgs do not exist

Coalition Building

1. Outreach to values aligned community organizations in targeted areas of the state with the goal of bringing them into the statewide housing discussion; with a premium on those that serve diverse communities.
2. Foster relationships with engaged community organizations through regular communication and sharing housing policy information and advocacy opportunities.
3. Support the Senior Director of Community Impact in leading the California YIMBY co-convening Community Housing Working Group.

OUR VALUES

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. These are not just words at California YIMBY. These values are key to furthering our mission to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. Representation matters, especially in our work to end the housing crisis. A crisis that, by design, continues to disproportionately impact communities of color. To address that historic and ongoing inequity, we are building a YIMBY movement that reflects California’s rich diversity and we actively seek diverse candidates with broad professional and lived experience. 

Our vision is of a California where neighbors welcome new neighbors of all backgrounds, and current residents are not displaced from their communities. 

We believe in neighborliness, and that communities are enriched and strengthened by openness and diversity. We believe that California holds the promise of opportunity for all: the chance to start a new life, the freedom to be our authentic selves, the promise of prosperity, the lure of our natural wonders.

We believe in empowerment, and support those who want to accommodate new neighbors while ensuring that new developments take place without displacement. We believe that existing residents have a right to remain in their neighborhoods. We make an effort to seek out and include people with varied backgrounds, experiences, and identities to inform our agenda and priorities. We do not tolerate intolerance.We pursue excellence in every aspect of our work — from the policies we design and support, to the way we interact with our colleagues, allies, partners, and elected officials. We believe trustworthiness is a pillar of human progress. We are passionate advocates for more housing and insist on holding ourselves to account. We believe in evidence-based decision-making. When we learn something new, we change our views to accommodate our learnings.

QUALIFICATIONS 

A successful candidate will likely have: 

• Demonstrated experience and enthusiasm for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and in the YIMBY and pro-housing movements. Candidates with diverse backgrounds and identities are strongly encouraged to apply
• Demonstrate the qualities of integrity, curiosity, inclusion, empowerment, collaboration, problem solving, strong work ethic, and great instincts
• Strong written and verbal  communication skills, with demonstrated ability to articulate a compelling and inspiring vision that motivates others
• Successful movement building experience; especially in communities of color

• Experience successfully implementing organizing strategies and a working knowledge of  the Distributed Organizing model for advocacy and campaigns (bonus points if you can demonstrate previous experience implementing it; if you can show you used it to crush goals even better)
• Experience with CRM software (like VoteBuilder, EveryAction, Salesforce) to track and assess performance

• Strong goal-orientation; ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects; working quickly and cooperatively to meet deadlines
• Excited to pursue all the above duties and essential job functions to help end California’s housing shortage and affordability crisis

HOW TO APPLY

California YIMBY is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. California YIMBY recruits hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation. California YIMBY will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Please submit your resume and cover letter in PDF format to Konstantin@cayimby.org with Senior Distributed Organizing Manager in the subject line. Please also indicate how you learned of this position.