Youth Organizer Position

Age: 18+

Salary Range:  $60,320

About Us: 

Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC) is seeking a Youth Organizer (Schools-Congregations) whose main role will be to guide Youth Leaders in building a strong base of active youth leaders in their respective assigned school sites, train and develop their leadership and move them towards action. They will work closely with the Congregational Youth Organizer in order to create strategies to move issue work forward. 

ICUC is working to reinvent politics for young people, mobilizing and empowering a new generation to participate in our democracy to make the Inland Empire a better place for everyone. We register and turn out thousands of young voters every year, we work on issues like election access, economic justice, and immigration rights. We train hundreds of young leaders to create change in their communities. Our team is deeply dedicated to social change.

Time Allocation:

• 20% Base building and outreach
• 25% Training and coaching leaders
• 5% Research meetings with stakeholders
• 20% Hosting or participating in 1:1’s
• 5% Attending ICUC meetings (internal)
• 5-10 % Action related activities 
• 5-10% Planning and organization 
• 5% Skill development 

Job Activities: 

• • Weekly 1:1s with the Director of Youth Program with the purpose of reflecting on their past weeks work, planning their upcoming week and receiving staff development. The conversation should include longer term plans for the work (looking 3-6 months ahead).
  • Have 1:1s with Youth in congregations and schools with the purpose of reflecting on their past weeks work, planning their upcoming week and making sure they are connecting the LOC’s to the ongoing work. Youth organizers are responsible for reaching out to youth to set the 1-1’s up and to stay consistent with these meetings.
  • Guide Youth Leaders in building their base with the goal of engaging 10+ youth in five Local Organizing Committees. The Youth Organizer should guide Youth leaders in creating and executing their plan for base building. Base building should be continuous throughout the year and the base building plan should be evaluated once every 3-4 months.
  • Guide Youth Leaders in holding LOC meetings for their respective sites with the purpose of connecting their base to the ongoing work. Youth Organizers are responsible for providing Youth leaders the guidance in the creation of meeting agendas and helping them create a plan to invite LOC members to participate in these meetings.
  • Participate in the monthly Region wide Youth Staff meetings and participate in the planning of them. Communicate to Youth leaders the dates and times of these meetings and make sure they are aware and planning to participate.

To maintain good communication the following job activities should be done in agreement with other Youth Organizers in ICUC:

• • Contacting elected officials and other professionals (eg. principals, school board members, city council members, etc.) for 1:1s and research meetings (as applicable to assigned sites) with the purpose of building relationships and learning about ways to move the work forward.
  • Preparing for research meetings- Once a decision is made that the specific Youth Organizer will lead a research meeting, communicate with the rest of the team (as applicable) to set up a planning meeting to create the agenda and assign roles. The Youth Organizer should make sure there are opportunities for Youth leaders to join and develop their leadership skills through their participation.
  • Preparing for research meetings-  Once a decision is made that the specific Youth Organizer will lead a research meeting, communicate with the rest of the team (as applicable) to set up a planning meeting to create the agenda and assign roles. The Youth Organizer should make sure there are opportunities for Youth leaders to join and develop their leadership skills through their participation. 
  • Putting together different forums- participate in the planning (assigning roles & responsibilities, coming together with the youth and community to put together questions, run rehearsals for research meetings and forum) and execution of candidate forums (as applicable) and guide Youth leaders to participate. 
  • Planning actions and events within the perspective region 

Qualifications:

• • Have 3+ years of experience working with youth in schools and/or congregations.
  • Experience working in congregations
  • Experience working in youth development
  • Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
  • Experience working with young people from the diverse communities of San Bernardino and Riverside counties
  • Creative thinker and problem-solver
  • Strong facilitation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with peers, youth, and community partners
  • Demonstrate ability to inspire youth participation
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, organizational and time management skills including budget
  • Bilingual highly desired
  • Must be 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

Preferred, but not required:

• • Reliable transportation and a driver’s license
  • Spanish language skills
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Position details:

The position is based out of Coachella Valley, with travel around the region and occasionally to San Bernardino. The position will be reporting to ICUC’s Director of Youth Organizing in San Bernardino.

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