Roc Mississippi organizer
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers
(ROC) United is seeking a dedicated individual to join our ambitious team as a
full-time organizer to build worker power and achieve a more just and dignified
restaurant industry. Under the ROC organizer’s mentorship, workers learn how to
recruit members, organize their coworkers, run workplace justice campaigns, be
spokespeople for ROC, build partnerships with local organizations and become
leaders in their community.
The ROC organizer strengthens ROC’s organizing capacity and focuses on: (1) building a
dues-paying membership of restaurant workers to support the mission of ROC, (2)
recruitment, retention, and involvement of worker leaders and activists, (3)
recruitment of participants in our member training curricula and job placement
of graduates as appropriate, (4) programming and campaign support, and (5) building
and maintaining relationships with local community organizations, coalition
members, and restaurants.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The ROC Organizer:
1. Grows and develops worker membership and leadership
○Conducts weekly outreach to restaurant workers, and engages worker leaders in doing the same
○Recruits restaurant workers to become dues-paying members, activists, and leaders at ROC
Ensures that proper follow-ups and one on ones are being scheduled and undertaken
on a weekly basis
Builds trust and relationships with worker-members
Ensures political education and other trainings
for member leaders to become leaders, advocates, and spokespeople for ROC
Supports members to move up the ladder of engagement into active leaders
Properly uses tracking methods for contacts and membership, including inputting and updating data in EveryAction
- Plans organize and facilitate membership meetings and events
- Supports local programming and campaigns
- Provides active support to the logistics and outreach of ROC Job Training programs and other curricula, including language-specific training as needed, Develops key relationships with high road employers to place graduates into jobs and participates in one-on-one job placement support with workforce development trainees
Participates in research tasks both online and through surveying to build out data to move and inform local policy
Provides organizing support to workers during workplace justice campaigns
Maintains and builds relationships with local & national organizations to increase solidarity among groups that work with low-income, workers of color, and immigrants.
Partnerships should work towards strengthening labor and social justice
movements.
Builds and maintains relationships with local community organizations
Actively participates in local policy coalitions to the benefit of ROC membership
Continues to develop networks of solidarity through meetings, check-ins, and solidarity actions
The ROC organizer is good at:
Building relationships with a diverse set of people and finding and
learning the unique skills and talents that they could contribute to our
programs and campaigns;
● Inspiring and motivating others;
●Communicating effectively in both oral and written form;
●Being accountable to our members and other members of ROC’s team;
●Being creative and adaptable;
● Organizing with a commitment to mentoring people to be agents of their own liberation.
REQUIREMENTS
● Deep commitment to racial, social, and economic justice and a
willingness to work collaboratively with persons of diverse racial and ethnic
backgrounds, socioeconomic status, ages, sexual orientations, and abilities
●Minimum of two years of community or labor organizing and base-building experience
● Strong written, verbal, and listening skills
●Ability to work under pressure
●Willingness to travel and work flexible hours
●Self-motivated, while working effectively independently or with a team
●Basic computer skills (word processing, spreadsheet & database,
electronic communication, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook, internet searches,
troubleshooting wi-fi, etc.)