Director/Lead Organizer for Brockton Interfaith Community
A position at Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC)
We are looking for a person who has experience as a community organizer or labor organizer. Please don't apply unless you have such experience.
Hours: Full-time
BICwas formed in 1991 and has a long record of accomplishments on organizing for increasing city services, affordable housing, after school programs, crime prevention, ESOL funding issues, and CORI reform. We are an institution based/congregation based, multi-issue, multiracial, dues based community improvement organization.
BIC recently organized 350 people to meet last month on issues of street outreach workers to work with at-risk, community policing, CORI reform and ESOL funding. The Mayor of Brockton made commitments at this action meeting on all these issues. See these news accounts of the action meeting.
www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/06/01/focus_is_on_ending_violence_in_br...
www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/31/anticrime_program_is_topic_in_bro...
We are looking for a person who has experience as a community organizer or labor organizer. Please don't apply unless you have such experience!!
The job of Director/Lead Organizer focuses on:
1) Issues like jobs, crime prevention, affordable housing, health care, transportation
and developing the strategies that will lead to concrete improvements in the lives of people affected by these issues.
2) Leadership development--we define leaders as people who can organize others to act together with them around shared goals. Most people can become such leaders if they give the time and bring commitment to it. Additional skills of leadership are taught in the process of the organizing on issues and in leadership training sessions.
3) Outreach especially through 1:1 relational meetings
We care about you as a person and your development as an organizer and director.
We will invest in your development through training, supervision, national trainings.
We believe good organizers are curious about developing themselves as persons of wide experience and people who desire to learn more about politics, economics, history, and religion.
BIC is affiliated with the Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN), a statewide federation of six organizations including UIA which work together on statewide issues like funding for youth violence prevention programs and job training. www.mcan-oltc.org MCAN is also affiliated with the PICO National Network of faith based community improvement organizations www.piconetwork.org
To apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to BIC Seach Committee, c/o LewFinfer@aol.com
or mail to BIC Search Committee c/o MCAN, 1773 Dorchester Avenue, Boston, MA 02124 (617) 822-1499
