EBASE
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy

Oakland Campaign Coordinator

Based in Oakland, CA

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
For more than 20 years, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) has been advancing economic and racial justice by building an inclusive economy in the East Bay based on good jobs and healthy communities. EBASE addresses the root causes of injustice, including white supremacy and corporate control, by developing strategic alliances among residents, workers, and people of faith to build power and win systemic change. EBASE develops leadership and capacity of Black and Brown communities, low-wage workers, and tenants through our campaigns. EBASE comprises a team of committed and seasoned staff, and an engaged board committed to a bold vision of economic and racial justice and a transformational approach to organizing that creates strong solidarity among people of color, women, immigrants, and queer folks. EBASE is a founding member of the PowerSwitch Action national network.

In support of its mission, EBASE seeks a collaborative and strategically inclined Oakland Campaign Coordinator to support deepening our organizational and individual bases of support for EBASE’s Oakland campaigns for equitable development, racial justice, worker rights and progressive budgets. This includes coordinating aspects of EBASE's coalition-based campaigns; developing and implementing campaign strategies and actions; supporting partners' base building activities; and representing EBASE at coalitions and identifying opportunities for intersectional collaboration. The Coordinator will help develop and implement various campaign strategies, with a focus on engaging and activating ally organizations, community groups, and labor unions; developing digital organizing strategies; and coordinating actions and events.

EBASE’s current Oakland campaigns include Oakland United, focused on winning affordable housing, local hire and fair chance hire for people who are formerly incarcerated and environmental mitigations from two large-scale sports stadium developments; and the People’s Budget, focused on securing more revenue for public sector services by increasing taxes on corporations and moving more public funds into community services. The Oakland Campaign Coordinator will be a joint employee with East Bay Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit and will be assigned work as needed. The Oakland Campaign Coordinator will be led by the Deputy Director of Campaigns.

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW
At the foundation of all EBASE’s work is the belief that all people have dignity, and all EBASE programs, campaigns, and policies are driven by people who are Black, brown, immigrant, indigenous, LGBTQ+, and/or women. The fight for economic justice is also one for racial and gender justice. And vice versa. The pandemic has put a magnifying glass on the great fissures of structural racism and income inequality, while also bringing us together to build back our lives with different priorities. We rise together as East Bay residents who are Black, brown, immigrant, indigenous, and LGBTQ+ people and women. EBASE rises for a just recovery. EBASE rises for better pay and conditions for workers, tenant rights, public health, and re-imagined public safety. When we dream together, organize together, and fight together with directly impacted workers and communities leading the way, we win.

OUR JOBS: essential jobs, low-wage work, and enforcement
EBASE works alongside low-wage and frontline workers to pass policies that advance higher pay and better working conditions. This includes paid sick time to help keep workers, their families, and the public safe, healthy, and housed. When employers break the law and do not provide these basic provisions while raking in billions, it further exacerbates economic inequality. Workers’ rights laws are only as good as their enforcement. EBASE partners with cities to ensure workers’ rights are upheld. EBASE works to strengthen the voice of workers on the job and at City Hall.

OUR HOMES: housing and tenant rights
EBASE works with tenants to advance rent stabilization and tenant protection policies, while passing community benefit agreements that include building more affordable housing for low-income communities. Housing is a human right, and by ensuring that everyone has an affordable, safe home, we will create healthier, more inclusive communities.

OUR CITIES: equitable development and budget fights
EBASE works to deprioritize rampant corporate development in favor of investment in everyday people. EBASE campaigns focus on passing community benefit agreements on large-scale public development projects that include good jobs, local and fair chance hiring, affordable housing, and community services. EBASE re-imagines public safety shifting away from the over-policing and mass incarceration of Black and brown folks. EBASE works to restore funding to our neglected communities to get at the root causes of crime by ensuring taxpayers’ dollars prioritize housing, worker protections, job training programs, youth services, and mental health treatment. This reprioritization will begin to heal structural racism and income inequality.

OUR FAITH: FAME and faith-rooted organizing
EBASE’s faith-rooted organizing initiative, the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME), works to bring together the very best of our spiritual traditions to infuse our economic justice movement with love, joy, and hope, redeeming both our economy and our religions. Through their work, EBASE is building a beloved community where caring and compassion reign, and where all people have their basic needs met and the fullness of their gifts are honored.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR
Coalition Building and Coordination

• Coordinate, plan, and facilitate coalition committee meetings for Oakland United focused on campaign action, event planning, and issue-based strategies.
• Build relationships with organizational partners through 1-1 meetings that recruit partner organizations to take action in the campaign.
• Contribute to coalition and campaign building with the campaign team, including helping with coalition meetings and actions, e-blasts and external communications, outreach to supporters and endorsers, and other campaign tactics and logistics.
• Represent EBASE at ally coalitions.

Campaign Plan Implementation

• With campaign team and coalition partners, support creation of campaign plan and activities that move the campaign forward toward its goals and support partners in engaging their bases on the campaign issues.
• Coordinate mobilizations and actions, both virtual and in person, as identified by the coalition. Ensure outreach, program, media, spokespeople, space, and materials for all events.
• Work with the Communications Manager to develop and implement media/social media plans and e-blasts that advance the campaign, as well as engage coalition partners to amplify social media.
• Track policy issues the campaign is working on, including attending city council meetings; reading memos and policies; and identifying policy questions or issues to be addressed.

Support Organizing to Expand the Base

• Partner with coalition organizations with membership bases to understand their organizing models and identify strategies and tactics to build their membership through coalition and campaign activities. Provide political education, training and leadership development, and organizing opportunities.
• Assist FAME organizer with faith-rooted organizing, including outreach to congregational and religious leaders and networks engaged in EBASE campaigns and support tactics and activities that bring faith leaders into the campaign such as vigils, faith leader sign on letters and public witness.
• Support the development and implementation of voter engagement activities with both EBASE and East Bay Action civic engagement staff and ally organizations, including Oakland Rising, towards engaging a base of supportive voters.

Organizational Development and Personal Administration

• Participate in weekly staff meetings, internal trainings, strategic and annual planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Support “all hands on deck” requests from EBASE campaign teams, including mobilization support, phone banking, civic engagement, fundraising, and other activities.
• Maintain personal organization systems (files, calendar, and compliance with document retention & destruction policy).
• Complete reimbursements, timesheets, and lobbying reports.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

• At least 3 years organizing and campaign experience with labor unions or worker organizations, community groups, or faith-rooted organizations.
• Comfortable, flexible, and interested in organizing a range of constituencies—workers, residents, voters, people of faith, and immigrant communities.
• Experience with and desire to execute coalition-based campaign that supports direct base building, with a focus on organizing organizations to take strategic action together.
• Flexible and collaborative. Highly relational and able to work among teams and coalitions.
• Self-motivated, accountable to goals and eager to learn new techniques, ideas, and skills.
• Excellent personal organization and time management skills.
• Deep commitment to social, economic, and racial justice movements.
• Experience organizing in Oakland desirable.
• Position requires use of an automobile.

If you don't meet all the criteria above but still feel your experience could be a good fit for the role, please apply. We recognize that candidates who don't check every box can add value to our team.

Work Environment and COVID Safety: EBASE fosters a collaborative and relational culture and team-based environment. For COVID safety, currently, EBASE is implementing a transitional period when all EBASE staff are working three days/week in the office and 2 days/week at home. In the future, this position will be based out of the Oakland office. All employees are required to be fully vaccinated.

Compensation: The full-time salary range for this role is currently targeted between $73,000 – $78,000 with an exact salary depending on experience, with an annual cost of living adjustment, depending on budget. EBASE contributes 3% – 6% of employee salary towards the 401(k)-retirement plan and provides additional benefits valued at roughly $25,000 per year. It includes fully paid employee health insurance (medical, chiropractic, and acupuncture), generous vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, and training and professional development opportunities. EBASE provides an excellent working environment that encourages teamwork and recognizes high-quality work. This position is part of a bargaining unit represented by CWA Local 9415.

TO APPLY
More information about East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy may be found at: workingeastbay.org

This search is being led by Julian Jackson, Chaz Chapman and Danielle Higa of NPAG. Candidates are invited to submit their cover letter, outlining their interest and qualifications, along with their résumé via NPAG’s website.

EBASE is an affirmative action employer, and strongly supports the social goals of affirmative action. We therefore make special efforts to recruit individuals from groups that are historically under-represented in professional environments, or that suffer from broader societal discrimination.