Location: Sacramento

Full-time or Part-time

Compensation: The base annual pay for a starting Field Organizer is $23.10/hour including overtime. Pay rate increases according to years of equivalent organizing experience.

Position open until filled

Field Organizer - Job Description

Organization: The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is dedicated to raising the voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, so that current and future generations have the ability to live in stronger communities and have access to expanded opportunities.

ACCE is a statewide community organization working with thousands of members across California to create transformative change by helping ordinary citizens organize and take action.

The Position:

The role of an ACCE Field Organizer is to build a community organization of motivated, empowered, and mobilized community leaders who act collectively, strategically, and powerfully to win on issues of importance to their families and to their neighborhoods. ACCE Field Organizers build organization by talking with residents about the changes they want to see in their local communities and beyond. Field Organizers build upon these conversations by preparing and training community leaders to research key issues, hold meetings and trainings with other community members, and develop thoughtful campaign strategies that lead to local wins and broader victories.

Key Duties and Responsibilities – Field Organizer I:

• Assess and develop new community leaders through follow-up via meetings, trainings, phone calls, and home visits.
• Work with community leaders to plan and carry out small and large organizing meetings, small actions, press conferences, public events, and rallies

Key Qualifications – Field Organizer I:

• You are excited about and available to conduct field outreach in low-income & working class Sacramento neighborhoods 
• You are a hard worker, self-motivated and able to work independently while maintaining accountability to the organization and its members. 
• You believe in the power of the people. 

Preferred but not required:

○ You have roots in Sacramento and are familiar with Sacramento’s unique political ecosystem.

○ You have experience with base building and issue campaigning.

○ You are a bilingual Spanish-English speaker.

Compensation: The Field Organizer position is a part-time non-exempt hourly position. The base annual pay for a starting Field Organizer is $23.10/hour including overtime. Pay rate increases according to years of equivalent organizing experience.

Position Open until filled

To Apply for this position:

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter to [email protected]