Bilingual Field Organizer

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3 days ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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💵 $25 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Jobs to Move America

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Non-profit • Social Impact • Energy

Jobs to Move America is a nonprofit advocacy organization that campaigns for good jobs, equitable workforce opportunities, and labor standards within the clean energy and clean transportation sectors. The organization focuses on shaping public purchasing policies, holding companies accountable for supply-chain labor practices, and producing research, policy recommendations, and legal action to advance economic and racial equity as clean tech expands. They work with governments, unions, community groups, and industry to ensure public investments create local, long-term jobs and fair hiring pathways.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

⚡ Energy

📋 Description

• Serve as an essential point of contact with manufacturing workers on the West Side of Chicago • Collect survey responses from workers using a variety of tactics such as direct engagement with workers outside of the worksite, house visits, phone calls and texts, and other creative forms of outreach • Work schedule will be set by mutual agreement in the scope of work between the Contractor and Midwest Director based on maximizing worker contacts • Must be available most weekday afternoons 2-4p

🎯 Requirements

• Fluent English and Spanish language skills required, including ability to read, write, and engage in conversation in both languages • Experience as an organizer or canvasser for issue-based or electoral campaigns; specific experience in worker organizing is a plus • Desire to build worker and community power in Chicago • Ability to thoughtfully engage workers around working conditions and move them to take action • Tenacity in the face of challenges and creativity to overcome them to meet goals • Basic technology skills to track progress and communicate results • Familiarity with impacts of racialized, gendered, and economic inequities on the working and living conditions of historically marginalized and disinvested communities • Driver’s License and access to a reliable vehicle for daily use • Ability to stand outside worksites and walk door-to-door for extended periods of time • Access to a computer, wifi, and telephone for work tracking and communication • Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone with reasonable accommodations