Position Status: Full-time, exempt

Location: Remote, but required to be a Kansas resident within the Kansas City Metro with the ability to travel the state on occasion

Reports to: Advocacy Manager

Compensation: $40,000-$45,000

Benefits: 100% employer-paid platinum health insurance and life insurance, $1,500/yr EBHRA (Excepted Benefit Health Reimbursement Arrangement) which may be used to cover any eligible medical expense (such as dental, vision, doctor copays, and medications), $100/mo work-from-home stipend, employer provided work laptop, ongoing professional development opportunities, and generous PTO. This position is represented by SEIU Local 513 (Service Employees International Union) and is a bargaining unit position.

Position Description: Community Organizers grow the reach and power of our supporters. Organizers are responsible for strategizing, planning and executing legislative and local advocacy campaigns and electoral mobilization campaigns through volunteer engagement and deep community leadership development from a nonpartisan and youth focused perspective.

Organizers will accomplish this through three main areas of work:

Base Building: Mobilizing people to take action & bringing new people in as supporters through calls to action, public presentations, and public events.
Leadership Development: Organizing members of young and underrepresented communities into volunteer leadership teams to learn skills, engage in base building tactics, and take collective action together that make a positive impact in state and local politics.
Other Public Engagement: Represent Loud Light and our values in various public spaces, such as with coalition partners, elected officials, media, and digital engagement.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understand the scope of the position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with the position. Additional duties may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

Must be a Kansas resident over the age of 18.
A passion for Kansas, and its people and state politics.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to “meet people where they are at” and build them up to an understanding of where you want them to be with patience and grace.
Creativity, flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with unanticipated opportunities to advance Loud Light’s mission.
Commitment to social justice, to the values and goals of Loud Light, and to working at a values-based organization with a high emphasis on mutual respect and intentional workplace culture.
Deeply Collaborative. You get that ultimately, community organizing is about building meaningful and authentic connections and relationships, and moving those relationships into action that makes a positive impact.

About Loud Light:

Loud Light isn’t about who wins the election. Loud Light is about who decides the winner.

In 2014, Kansas had one of the lowest youth voter participation rates in the nation and one of the least transparent state governments. In 2015, Loud Light (501c3) was founded to transform Kansas by building a better democracy. That means breaking down barriers to the ballot, producing accessible information, registering and turning out young voters, and preparing the next generation of Kansans to be civic leaders. In 2020, Loud Light Civic Action (501c4) was founded to unleash new opportunities for voter education and voting and civil rights advocacy. In 2021, we launched New Frontiers to build economic, social, and political power through culturally relevant grassroots organizing and local issue advocacy in Southwest Kansas; the youngest and most diverse region in the state.

We’re transforming Kansas through building community power, issue advocacy and education, leadership development, coalition building, pro-democracy litigation, and voter registration and turnout.

Loud Light Mission Statement: Loud Light engages, educates, and empowers individuals from underrepresented populations to build community power that has an impact on decision makers.

Loud Light Civic Action Mission Statement: Loud Light Civic Action is protecting and advancing voting rights and civil rights in Kansas.

Loud Light Values Statement: We help young and underrepresented Kansans take meaningful actions that impact political decision makers through community organizing, engaging in collective actions that protect and expand civil rights, and mobilizing electoral turn out.

To Apply:

To apply, send an email to [email protected] stating your interest in the position with "[Kansas City or Wichita] Organizer Application" in the subject line. Please include your resume, and cover letter or a statement of interest in PDF form. If applying via a job posting website, please still send an email and resume. Please note that applicants invited to interview should be prepared to share at least two references. Applicants must reside within the state of Kansas.

Applications will be reviewed and candidates invited to interview on a rolling basis until the position is filled. If interested please apply as soon as possible. Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? We’d still love to see your application!

Loud Light is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, history with the criminal legal system, or veteran status.