Greater MN Organizing Fellowship

Greater Minnesota Organizing Fellowship - TakeAction Minnesota Part time (10-20 hours/week) Pay ($25/hour) 6 month fellowship (October - March) Looking for: 4-6 fellows from across the state of Minnesota. Priority Regions: Iron Range, Bemidji, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, Brainerd, Mankato, and Rochester/Winona areas. THE ORGANIZATION: TakeAction Minnesota is a power organization, building multiracial, cross-class teams of young people, parents and caregivers, artists and musicians, and tenants in key geographies around the state to win strategic campaigns for care, repair, and stability in our communities and statewide. Founded in 2006, TakeAction Minnesota exists because the challenges we face are bigger than one campaign or election cycle. TakeAction Minnesota’s work is powered by both our Organizing and Operations teams.The Organizing team includes staff in base-building, data, politics, and communications who build campaigns across legislative, administrative, electoral, and community arenas to grow grassroots power and advance long-term transformational change. The Operations team provides the financial, administrative, and organizational infrastructure that supports this work and enables our organizing teams to succeed. OVERVIEW At TakeAction Minnesota, we organize performers, tenants, public school families, and pissed off people across our state to fight for and win what we believe we all deserve: fully funded public schools, safe and stable homes for all, a Minnesota where performers *actually* get paid, and communities where working people have a real voice in the decisions that affect their lives. Our Greater Minnesota Fellows will organize teams to build people power, develop leadership, and campaign with our bases. Ideal candidates will have personal experience or a deep interest with at least one of our existing teams (parents, performers, and/or tenants), but there is flexibility for individuals who have another vision in mind and drive to organize people in your local area (i.e. organizing around healthcare, fighting a local data center). Our ideal candidates can explain why building and being on a team matters to them, and why they want to fight around these issues. They will also demonstrate a willingness to embrace discomfort of trying new things, be willing to be invested in, and ready to fail, learn, and try again. Flexible hours required to be a successful organizer - we will often work with members on evenings and weekends. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS — Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: OUTREACH AND BASEBUILDING Canvassing, one-on-ones, community meetings Engaging with staff and members to build relationship Recruit volunteers LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Lead meetings and actions in your own community CAMPAIGNING Join in on existing fights and fight like hell alongside our base teams. WHY IT MATTERS - WHY YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT We want to live in a state with fully-funded schools, where artists *actually* get paid, and where everyone has access to a safe and stable roof over their head. Organizing fellows will build and lead teams to build our collective power across the state so we can more and more make that vision a reality. You will have tons of opportunities for your own leadership development, and get to invest in regular people in your community to fight for what they care about, and be part of a team delivering in your local arena, and as a larger team at the state level. You’d be a good fit for this role if: You are power hungry You love people You’re down to try new things, even when they make you uncomfortable. i.e. making phone calls, knocking on doors, asking risky questions in 1:1 conversations, practicing new skills, organizing neighbors to meet with decision makers. You are open to investment that invites you to confront yourself and how you show up in the world. You work well on a team, or have a deep desire to work well in teams. REPORTS TO & LOCATION This position reports directly to DyAnna Grondahl, Senior Organizer in our Duluth office This position is an opportunity for anyone in the state of Minnesota, but fellows will be required to occasionally travel. In response to COVID-19, all employees are resourced to work from home or under a hybrid model as needed.