Summary:

Georgia Equality seeks a full-time Southern Field Organizer to lead the implementation of Georgia Equality’s programs in South Georgia. The Field Organizer will assist all programs, events and issue areas as needed, including passing pro-equality legislation, voter registration, HIV/AIDS advocacy, transgender rights, and electing pro-equality candidates to office on a local and state level.

We strongly encourage people with personal experience with HIV, people of color, and queer, trans, and gender non-conforming folks to apply for this position. The ideal candidate for this position will be based out of Savannah or Statesboro. The Southern Field Organizer and will work with the State Outreach Manager.

Reports to: Deputy Director

 

Responsibilities:  

I. Serve as Georgia Equality’s Southern Field Organizer by primarily supporting the
organization’s programmatic work. This work includes:

• • Volunteer Engagement: Be able to engage in significant volunteer recruitment and community mobilization around Georgia Equality’s legislative agenda.
  • Voter Engagement: Assist with Georgia Equality’s voter registration program.
  • Outreach Work: Attend community events, host town halls and educational events; support partner organizations.
  • Coalition Building: Engage with key stakeholders to support and further Georgia Equality’s goals and mission.

II. Support Georgia Equality’s advocacy, legislative, and electoral work.

III. Support other work of the organization on an as-needed basis at the discretion of the Deputy
Director and Executive Director.

 

Prerequisites:

• Community Familiarity: Experience working with both the transgender and broader LGBTQ+ communities, as well as an understanding of the dynamics between different communities within the overall progressive and LGBTQ+ movements is desired.
• Familiarity with local community organizations and networks. This position will work remotely. The ideal candidate will be located in Middle, Southeastern or Coastal Georgia.
• People Person: Enjoys talking to people, listening to people talk, and helping people through decision-making and generally counseling them through challenges in their work.
• Project Leadership: Experience in planning and executing projects or initiatives, including collaborating with colleagues to ensure projects are completed on time.
• Self-Direction: Takes initiative in what can sometimes feel like chaotic or ambiguous environments, and is motivated to figure out solutions instead of waiting for directions.
• Communications: Strong overall written and oral presentation skills, and the ability to communicate with people of various backgrounds and experiences.
• Knowledge: Understanding of community organizing and campaigns.
• Resilience: Able to withstand being exposed to biased beliefs and incidents, including anti-LGBTQ+ bias, from external sources and help community members facing similar challenges in their own advocacy.
• Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work as an integral part of a team of hard-working, energetic professionals, taking input from a variety of assertive colleagues.
• Prioritization and Detail Orientation: Ability to set and meet goals, prioritize, plan, manage, and complete work on deadline and in optimum quality.
• Commitment to Social Justice: An understanding of and commitment to issues affecting LGBTQ+ people, as well as an understanding of racism, classism and other systems of inter- connected oppressions is critical.
• Acumen for Fundraising: Ability to work with a development team to build a pipeline for nonprofit fundraising.

 

Qualifications

• At least 1 – 3 years of experience working in any of the following fields: advocacy, outreach, public education, and mobilization; as well as, working in social justice areas including: civil rights, voting rights, progressive and/or social justice organizations, preferably in the LGBTQ+ movement or public health.
• Knowledge, passion and commitment to addressing issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community as well as advancing equality and social justice generally.
• Strong public presentation skills, and experience in public speaking and/or training.
• Strong written communication skills including ability to assist in writing grant proposals, draft member communications, social media outreach, and event publicity.
• Commitment to working across lines of difference including race, class, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and age to achieve objectives.
• Ability and interest to work with a wide range of organizations and institutions including other LGBTQ+ groups, schools, unions, religious congregations, and other social justice and advocacy organizations. Demonstrated experience with at least some of these types of organizations preferred.
• Knowledge of MS-Office systems, Voter Activation Network, Blocks, Hustle and/or EveryAction is preferred.
• Extensive travel is required and applicants must have their own vehicle for transportation.
• Above all else, a positive attitude and willingness to work collaboratively and in support of Georgia Equality’s mission.

 

Compensation

Salary: $45,000 – $50,000

Excellent benefits including mileage reimbursement, generous time off and subsidized health insurance.

 

How to Apply

To apply, send a cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to email hidden; JavaScript is required provided with “Southern Field Organizer” as the subject. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please no calls.

This is a rolling application process, and this job will be posted until it is filled.

 

  Georgia Equality is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

 

Georgia Equality is excited to welcome three new staff members to the team! Please join us in welcoming Alexandra Audate, Deputy Director, Jessica Douglas, Development and Communications Manager, and Halle Vargas-Sullivan, Field Organizer.

Alexandra Audate (she/her) is the Deputy Director of Georgia Equality. She earned a Bachelors Degree, a Masters of Laws Degree in Intercultural Human Rights and a law degree from St. Thomas University. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Florida. Prior to joining Georgia Equality, she worked as the managing attorney of the QueerMigration Law Group in Florida where she represented and supported queer and transgender immigrants.

Her career in human rights advocacy spans over a decade and consists of legislative lobbying, policy writing, and coalition building. Prior to practicing law, she worked as a social worker providing direct service to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.

She also worked as a community organizer and spent the last fifteen years traveling all over the United States advocating on issues related to 2LGBTQIA+rights, immigration, racial equity, police brutality, HIV/AIDS, disability rights, environmental racism and the school-to-prison pipeline. She is the author of the legal portion of the most recent edition of the Broward County Public Schools LGBTQ+ Critical Support Guide.

Alexandra is a proud immigrant from Haiti and is fluent in Haitian Creole, French, English and Spanish. During her spare time, she loves painting, going to the beach, reading and writing about Black feminist theory.

Jessica Douglas (she/her) is the Development and Communications Manager at Georgia Equality. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Georgia, where she also minored in African American Studies and served as a Student Government Senator and activist. During her time at UGA, Jessica interned for Georgia Equality twice, working in communications, legislative advocacy, and field organizing.

Jessica previously served as an external relations officer for the Center for Victims of Torture in Georgia, advocating for refugee and immigrant survivors of torture and other conflict-related trauma. She is passionate about approaching social issues from a trauma-informed and intersectional lens. In her spare time, Jessica enjoys reading and spending time with her cat, Felix.

Halle Vargas-Sullivan (she/her) is the Field Organizer at Georgia Equality. Her background includes art activism, creative entrepreneurship, and community engagement. Since being cast as “Young Nala” in Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway at nine years old, she has been committed to utilizing art as a pathway towards reshaping the world into an inheritance that is sustainable, just, and joy-focused. She studied Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts prior to transferring to Spelman College. There, she majored in Comparative Women’s Studies and curated a research focus of “Representations of Blackness, Latinidad, and Womanhood in the Media.” Engaging with her intersectional, bilingual perspective (English/Spanish), she is dedicated to doing the work required to secure the protection, equity, and representation of those who have been historically oppressed.