Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
A cover letter is recommended for consideration.
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Who We Are:
Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.
We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.
Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.
Who You Are:
equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Visionand are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.
Position Summary:
As the Digital Organizer you will contribute to the organization’s success through leveraging digital engagement strategies to build community power and disrupt systems that drive hunger and poverty. This role will collaborate with Oregon Food Bank’s Strategic Communications team and other Community Organizers to coordinate digital engagement strategies that move an ever growing base of community leaders up a ladder of engagement. You will utilize base-building tactics across OFB’s volunteer, partner agency and client communities with a focus on creating movement along a spectrum from service provision towards organizing.
Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
Participate in development and implementation organizing projects that build a people of color-led leadership core.
Support the implementation of digital campaigns that engage, motivate, and grow a people of color-led leadership core — with a particular focus on moving supporters from online to offline engagement.
Execute high-impact, integrated, and creative digital plans to achieve short-and long-term organizing and policy goals.
Utilize digital tools, social media, EveryAction and texting programs to maximize digital list building.
Collaborate with Oregon Food Bank’s Strategic Communications team, Community Organizers, and Core leaders to create compelling digital content used in channels.
Draft and develop targeted emails, SMS alerts, script templates, online action pages, relational organizing tools, digital toolkits, and other digital content to engage supporters within our digital base.
Collaborate with and support other Oregon Food Bank Organizers using Every Action to develop strategies to move the Oregon Food Bank Base to advance systems and policy change.
Train and coach organizers, staff, and leaders at all levels in digital organizing tools and best practices that support organizing events, actions, and campaigns.
Engage leadership base in analysis, skills building and action to move them up a ladder of engagement in context of service to systems change.
Assist with executing text banks, phone banks, and other online actions, including setup, list creation, script development, volunteer training, and systems troubleshooting.
Identify opportunities to amplify the leadership and stories of leaders as experts through experience.
Participate in leading organizing trainings within OFB and with our organizational partners as needed.
Participate fully in cross-department teams as assigned or as critical to position responsibilities.
Participate fully in OFB’s Advocacy, Volunteer and Organizing Team, share leadership across the team in peer to peer collaboration and team development.
Participate fully in OFB’s organizational planning processes, data and technology systems, lobbying and finance tracking processes and organizational equity journey.
Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.
In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
cross-departmental efforts
work culture activities and programming
advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.
Skills and Experience
Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
2-3 years experience in community organizing.
2-3 years using constituent relationship management programs for technological tactics for organizing, including but not limited to phone banking, mass texting, social media, virtual community meetings, relational organizing etc.
Administrator-level experience using EveryAction strongly preferred.
Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in English with a range of audiences.
Outstanding relationship building skills. Ability to develop and maintain relationships in the context of building relationships for the organization and its mission.
Demonstrated ability to navigate conflict through effective leadership and problem-solving.
Ability to drive/valid driver’s license.
Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.
Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.
Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.
Preferred Qualifications:
The Fine Print:
Work environment:
Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computers and phones extensively.
May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 – 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur.
This role requires travel/personal vehicle use /work outside normal hours.
Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing. Accommodations may be available upon request.
Background Check:
This position doesn’t require a criminal background check.
Inclement Weather, Service Disruptions and Disaster Response expectations:
OFB is part of the regional disaster response network and, as part of our commitment to our community, we all are expected to report to work as soon as it’s safe to do so and to respond to the disaster, emergency, inclement weather or extended service disruption as needed and as possible. Work and paid designations are described in OFB’s Inclement Weather Guidelines. At all times staff is supported to prioritize their safety and those of their dependants, families and loved ones while in communication and coordination with supervisors.
1. Exempt classification refers to employees who earn a salary rather than an hourly rate for the work they do instead of the number of hours they take to complete the task. Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime pay or minimum wage. They; 1) Supervise two or more full-time employees or four part-time employees regularly; 2) Are responsible for managing at least part of a business; 3) Play an important role in the job status of other employees, including hiring and delegating tasks; or 1) Perform office or non-manual work directly related to the business operations or management of an organization and its customers; and 2) Exercise independent judgment and discretion over important business decisions.
