Location: Coachella Valley

Full Time: (40 hrs a week)

Salary range: ​$60,320

Reports to: Executive Director 

About Us: 

Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC) is a faith-based 501(c)3 non-profit community organization serving San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. ICUC empowers people of faith to transform and revitalize the Inland Empire by working in the civic arena for the common good.

ICUC is working to reinvent parent and family engagement and organizing by educating, mobilizing and empowering a new generation of local parent leaders to participate and promote our collective moral and social values to bring opportunity and dignity to families and our democracy to make the Inland Empire a better place for everyone. We train hundreds of parent leaders to create change in their communities, schools and state through organizing and empowerment of those closest to the pain. Our team is deeply dedicated to social change in education, social, racial and economic justice.

ICUC is seeking a parent Organizer who will work closely with Lead organizers and parent leaders across the Coachella Valley to engage parents and families in ICUC’s Parents United for Change program and organizing. This includes but is not limited to working with families and parent leaders at school sites, congregations and in community centers, school administrators, college and universities and other partner organizations to bring a relationship centered approach to the development of knowledge and skills of families to advance education advancement and economic justice for low income, system impacted, indigenous communities and immigrant families.

The Parent lead organizer will also work closely with interfaith clergy, congregational leaders, school district staff and officials, city and county leaders, service providers, allied organizations and coalitions in the Coachella Valley.

Time expectation:

• Base building at ICUC congregations and member institutions.
• Ongoing outreach to identify new leaders at congregations and member institutions.
• Maintaining a digital database of participants per Local Organizing Committees and related actions.
• Work alongside executive director and Congregational lead organizer to support with grant writing, reports and keeping track of events and list of participants
• Training and coaching leaders
• Research, planning, executing meetings with stakeholders
• Conducting and participating in 1:1’s with at least 50 different participants, leaders a month.
• Attending ICUC meetings (internal)
• Action related activities
• Planning and organization with lead organizer and or supervisors
• Skill development
• Admin time for staff reports, preparing materials, agendas, training, etc. for LOCs and related actions.

Job Activities:

• Extend ICUC’s parent organizing program ‘Parents United for Change’ to schools and congregations where families will participate and engage in monthly organizing planning meetings and Parents United for Change organizing meetings per LOC in the Coachella Valley.
  ○Bring ICUC’s curriculum and expand materials as needed based on ongoing listening sessions with families and to create local and statewide organizing opportunities to bring needed resources and information.
  ○Continue to build on ICUC’s legacy in a way that is intentional and builds both parent and organizational power and recognition.
  ○Plan, coordinate and lead workshops, trainings, and conversations that support families knowledge and organizing skills. Create materials and presentations in both English and Spanish.
•  Support parent organizers at school and congregational bases to build a base of 100 parent leader contacts per site. Keep 50 parent participants engaged in monthly parent LOC meetings and monthly training at each site.
• Guide and support Parent organizers in holding LOC meetings with planned agendas and training for each meeting for their respective sites with the purpose of connecting their base to the ongoing organizing work and educational materials.
• Create and maintain 5 Local organizing committees with 50 engaged leaders per month through 1-1s and LOC meetings. Local organizing committees should meet twice a month.
• Create a base of parent organizers and parent leaders within ICUC congregations and member institutions.
• Engage families in the implementation of the ICUC’s Civic Engagement Campaigns to advance policies that support our mission and vision.
• Participate in coalition with the Education for Liberation campaign @ PICO California.
• Participate and support the Congregational team in organizing and strategizing ICUC s organizing in the region to align with ICUC, PICO California and Faith In Action’s organizing campaigns.
• LOC meetings align to the Coachella Valley Parent Lead organizing work plan.
• Hold a minimum of 2-4 research actions per LOC a year.
• Hold 1 public action a year.
• Support Federated actions by bringing leaders and clergy to participate and co-lead in organizing spaces.
• Maintain a system to keep track of meetings, actions and participants (includes date, location, type of meeting/action and contact information) in collaboration with ICUC Data lead.
• Establish a systematic form of communication with leaders and clergy. This includes 1-1s, calls, zoom meetings, emails, text apps, etc.
• Maintain a detailed calendar of job-related activities and submit ICUCs administrative reports as required. For example, staff reports, complete assassinated training, etc.
• Engage CV leaders in the implementation of the ICUC’s Civic Engagement Campaigns to advance policies that support our mission and vision. Activities such as Phone banking, canvassing, food distribution drives, voter registration drives, collection of pledge cards, petitions, etc.
  

Qualifications:

• Commitment to social change through building the capacity and power of low-income families, people of color, indigenous and the system impacted community members to create and or change policies to benefit families.
• Commitment to community organizing and ability to work constructively with ICUC s staff, leaders, congregations and grassroots partners.
• Have experience facilitating training with families preferably at both congregations and/ or schools.
• Have a background in developing training and curriculum for grassroot campaign efforts centered around economic, social, gender and racial justice.
• Experience working in youth and or family engagement and development
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
• Experience working with an interfaith and diverse of community of Coachella Valley Region
• Creative thinker and problem-solver
• Strong facilitation and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with clergy, peers, youth, and community partners.
• Demonstrate ability to inspire family’s participation and involvement in ICUC’s campaigns and organizing.
• Strong written and oral communication skills,
• Organizational and time management skills.
• Willing and able to work evenings and occasional weekends.
• Willing to adapt scope and responsibilities as needed to effectively achieve ICUC’s mission and best serve the priorities, need, and interests of members

The ideal candidate must possess the following due to the nature of the work and the primary community engaged in this work:

• Reliable transportation and a valid California’s driver’s license
• English and Spanish language verbal and written skills

Position details:

The position is based out of Coachella Valley’s main office, with possible travel around the San Bernardino and Riverside, Coachella Valley regions.

This Position Reports to: Congregational Lead Organizer and Executive Director

Travel Requirements: Moderate

Inland Congregations United for Change is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all, and strongly encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQ people to apply. 

To apply: email resume to frank.g@icucpico.com