JOB ALERT | Associate Director of Advocacy & Organizing - $76k to $82k
The mission of Bread for the City is to help Washington, DC residents living with low income to develop their power to determine the future of their own communities. We provide food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services to reduce the burden of poverty. We seek justice through community organizing and public advocacy. We work to uproot racism, a major cause of poverty. We are committed to treating our clients with the dignity and respect that all people deserve.
Position Profile:
There is a crisis in our city--the displacement of thousands of long-time residents due to the destruction of affordable housing. To support those impacted by this crisis, Bread for the City has launched an ambitious housing advocacy campaign, aimed at engaging the communities in which we work to build a powerful base of voters, organizers, artists, and others to fight to create and preserve affordable housing in the District.
As a direct services organization, Bread for the City is uniquely poised to house a campaign of this type and magnitude. We typically see 34,000 people a year through our food, legal, medical and social services programs. The possibilities of parlaying those existing relationships into a powerful base of people are astounding and can serve as a model of what is possible. The Associate Director of Advocacy and Organizing, with the support of department organizers in the Advocacy Department, will be responsible for that translation and the cultivation of this campaign.
Leveraging this powerful base, this campaign will build coalitions, engage storytelling as a tool for narrative shift, directly engage public officials, and re-energize DC residents around civic engagement and homegrown organizing in a city with a rich history of both. We will help support the grassroots leadership and create the political will necessary to rectify the conditions that perpetuate poverty in the District, starting with the creation and preservation of housing affordable to those at-or-below 30% of the Area Median Income (AMI), especially housing owned and operated by the DC Housing Authority (DCHA).