Statewide Youth Organizing Director YES

Statewide Youth Organizing Director YES (full-time)

About Voces:

Voces de la Frontera is a national leader in the movement for immigrant and worker rights and the largest grassroots Latinx membership organization in Wisconsin. Led by low-wage immigrant workers and students, Voces works to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing, and collective empowerment. VDLF has chapters in Milwaukee, Racine, Madison, Green Bay/Fox Cities, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Waukesha, Walworth County, Kenosha, and West Bend. Voces' student arm is called Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES).

Note: This position will include work for both Voces de la Frontera and our 501c4 sister organization Voces de la Frontera Action (VDLFA).

Statewide Youth Organizing Director (full-time)

Scope of Work:

The Statewide Youth Organizing Director coordinates and supervises all activity of Voces de la Frontera’s youth arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES). The goal of the position is to create a broad base of youth, mostly high school age and college to work on youth-led campaigns for social and economic justice. Organizing director's position is based in Milwaukee but the organizing director will travel throughout the state to organize youth on issues that are important to our youth and the communities that they are part of. The work centers around building school based high school and college youth chapters and working with youth organizers assigned to those chapters in building a grassroots youth led movement that builds youth power that impacts the quality of their lives.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise all YES program staff (organizers and interns)
• Moniter progress of staff, tracking membership growth and organizing activities with weekly meetings
• Develop and advise campaigns in areas of immigrant rights, civic engagement, and educational justice
• Attend Voces staff meetings and coordinate youth program work with the work of the organization, including intergenerational activities
• Coordinate and execute chapter leadership meetings
• Plan core leader trainings
• Build relationships with and take direction from teacher advisors, including running monthly meetings where organizers are not assigned.
• Plan trips and support for big actions
• Provide college chapters with invitations to leadership development trainings and offer roles/involvement in campaigns
• Manage youth membership progress along with youth staff and leaders to meet yearly membership goals
• Attend high school chapter meetings biweekly for assigned chapters to build membership, involve current and new teacher advisors, increase parent involvement, and build leadership of student leaders
• Work with the Executive Director and Development Director on fundraising and reporting that is pertinent to program funds.
• Manage United We Dream (UWD), Milwaukee Teacher’s Education Association (MTEA), National Education Association (NEA), elected official, School Board, and other coalition and funding relationships

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years’ experience in union organizing, community organizing, youth leadership development, and/or program development
• Experience in NLRB union election campaigns, electoral campaigns, managing canvases
• Experience with leadership development, organizing strategies and civic engagement campaigns
• Demonstrated capacity in working with diverse youth populations, school-based organizing a plus
• Demonstrated capacity in working with diverse stakeholders including program advisors, school staff and funders
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred
• Experience with digital organizing a plus
• Experience with immigrant rights organizing preferred
• Must be willing to travel with frequency
• Must have reliable vehicle, car insurance and valid driver’s license
• Must be willing to work a flexible schedule which accommodates youth schedules’ including evenings and weekends
• Excellent written, interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Suite and other basic computer programs

Benefits: (Eligible after 90-day probationary period)

• Generous health insurance plan: Health, vision, dental and life insurance. Health insurance coverage applies to employee and dependents
• 401K benefits based on longevity
• Company phone OR reimbursement to personal phone if willing to utilize it for work purposes, in accordance with the Voces de la Frontera employee policy handbook
• Paid-time off includes: 80 hours vacation, 16 hours personal time, 40 hours sick leave, 3 days bereavement and paid holidays all in accordance with the Voces de la Frontera employee policy handbook

Salary: $66,000/annually with benefits

Reports to: Executive Director

To Apply:

Please submit a resume with three references and a cover letter to- Ana Gomez- Human Resources Manager- agomez@vdlf.org.

Voces de la Frontera is an affirmative action employer. Voces believes that all people are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any matters on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender identity and presentation, religion or spirituality, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, physical characteristics, marital status, pregnancy or parental status.