Community Organizing Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Organizing Strategy

• Develop and deploy ACCFB’s organizing strategy in alignment with the org-wide
strategic plan;
maximize community participation in efforts to inform and advance the Food Bank’s
policy agenda.
• Collaborate with the Director of Policy, Senior Policy Advocate and Government
Relations Officer to ensure that ACCFB’s organizing strategy is aligned to legislative
priorities and org goals for positively engaging the public sector.
• Lead the evaluation of organizing, mobilizing, and engagement strategies and
campaigns — defineand track success metrics, communicate findings and implement
improvements.
• Identify and cultivate mutually supportive partnerships with other organizations and
coalitions that are doing similar organizing and mobilizing work to support our policy
agenda and voter engagement and education efforts.
• Provide supervision, leadership and mentorship to the Community Organizer; offering
ongoing feedback and opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Partner with the Director of Policy and Partnerships to uplift community voice and to
share key insights with other teams, including Leadership Team, and to facilitate follow
up conversations and connections as needed.

Mobilize Community Support For Our Policy Agenda
• Develop and execute organizing campaigns that grow the number of community
members, clients,
volunteers, member agencies, donors and staff who engage as community advocates.
• Develop and execute advocacy campaigns to mobilize community advocates to take
action in support of ACCFB’s policy priorities.
• Cultivate and support internal staff engagement with advocacy events to help connect
the dots between advocacy and achieving our mission.

Mobilize Community Support For Our Policy Agenda (Duties & Responsibilities Continued)
• Lead the development of events, outreach materials, and trainings that support
organizing and mobilizing advocates.
• Ensure broad community engagement with Food Bank advocacy events such as
Hunger Action Day, Hunger Action Month, voter education and engagement, and other
policy initiatives.
• In collaboration with the Government Relations Officer, provide opportunities for
community members to engage with elected officials, to establish and maintain
productive dialogue with elected officials

Get Out The Vote
• Develop and execute the Food Bank’s non-partisan voter engagement and education
campaigns.
• Support the Director of Policy and Partnership to ensure that ACCFB is compliant with
all laws and regulations governing 501c3 engagement with lobbying, advocacy and
especially related to elections.

All other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Required Competencies
• Minimum 5-7 years of social justice organizing experience; demonstrated ability to
develop and lead
successful organizing and mobilizing campaigns that include multiple modes of
engagement.
• At least 3 years’ leadership experience, developing and executing organizing strategy
as well as motivating, training, and supervising at least one direct report.
• Proven project management skills, including ability to manage multiple priority projects
simultaneously.
• Demonstrated success in growing and developing an organized base of members,
constituents, or community members to achieve organizational goals.
•Skilled facilitator and trainer; able to plan and run effective and inclusive meetings and
trainings, and hold space for challenging conversations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of how to lead organizing, advocacy work within a non-profit
organization and pursuant to laws governing 501c3 activities, including experience
directing and training others on the limitations of compliant activities.
• Deep knowledge of organizing work and past campaigns and leaders in the San
Francisco Bay Area; particularly related to hunger and poverty.
• Knowledge of Alameda County & City of Oakland social, political, and economic
landscape, ideally at the neighborhood level.
• Ability to interact effectively and respectfully with individuals of diverse backgrounds,
experiences and personalities and engage them in conversations around complex
issues of race, inequality and justice; adept at tailoring communication style for a range
of audiences and technical abilities.
• Ability to design and execute program evaluation, evaluate your own practice as well as
coalition work; adept at seeking, implementing, and offering feedback.
• Highly skilled communicator; able to adapt to different audiences and spaces; excellent
public speaker.
• Experience in planning and hosting community-centered events and meetings.
• Strong organization and tracking skills. Able to keep projects moving, pay attention to
detail, make sure things don’t slip through the cracks, and meet deadlines.
• Understanding of lobbying and government relations work within a non-profit setting,
and how to design an organizing strategy that supports, uplifts, and informs that work.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel,
Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint) and relational databases and online organizing tools such
as Salesforce, Pardot and Voter Voice.
• Valid CA Driver’s License with an insurable driving record and access to a vehicle. This
position requires regular local travel within Alameda County.
• Ability to attend work functions outside of normal work hours, on weekends and
evenings, as needed.

Preferred Qualifications
• Bilingual Spanish-English, Cantonese-English, Vietnamese-English, or Mam-English.
• Deep roots and relationships in Alameda County.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES
• Must have impeccable judgment; ability to make excellent decisions in the field on
behalf of ACCFB.
• Passion, enthusiasm, focus, and creativity around Alameda County Community Food
Bank’s vision, mission and values of community, leadership, transparency, innovation,
and diversity.
• Deep belief that an organizer’s job is to help people step into leadership and drive
change in the issues that impact their lives and help them to thrive.
• A learning-orientation: humility and willingness to learn and grow; tendency to remain
self-aware; sets and holds high expectations for self and others.
• Warm, congenial, and able to maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Strong team player; flexibility to balance operational and community needs.
• Impeccable integrity and honesty.
• Strong work ethic with an orientation toward innovation and process improvement.
• Solutions-oriented critical thinker; able to identify and address problems as they arise;
comfortable taking control of challenging situations; knows when to elevate issues to
Director.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Physical activities necessary in the performance of this job include: ability to sit and work at a computer for up to five hours at a time; ability to move throughout the 118,000 sq. ft. Food Bank facility in performance of duties; ability to bend, lift and carry up to 30 lbs. on occasion; ability to visit community settings and move in and out of many offices and buildings as part of organizing activities; ability to communicate in clear speaking voice in person, before large groups and over the phone.