Job Description--Community Action Advocate

Job Description: Community Action Advocate

Reports to: Executive Director

Salary Range: Depends on Experience

Type of Position: Full Time Exempt

Responsibilities:
The Community Action Advocate is responsible for promoting and sustaining grassroots community action on land-use policy issues.

The Community Action Advocate will assist the Executive Director in developing overall strategies, programs, and campaigns to achieve the policy and legislative goals of LandWatch Monterey County, and will be responsible for the implementation of educational programs and public policy campaigns. Specific duties will include:

• Forging strategic partnerships with grassroots community groups, other nonprofits, and government agencies
  
  
• Carrying out citizen training activities
  
  
• Acting as a catalyst for the creation of new grassroots groups
  
  
• Organizing and advising groups involved with public policy campaigns
  
  
• Ensuring the currency of programmatic material on the LandWatch website
  
  
• Preparing press releases and press kits associated with public policy campaigns
  
  
• Building LandWatch membership through the involvement of grassroots groups
  
  
• Recruiting and cultivating LandWatch donors and major donors
  
  
• Assisting in the organization and implementation of events associated with grassroots education and donor cultivation

The Community Action Advocate will interact and communicate with the membership of LandWatch Monterey County, and with opinion leaders, the general public, the media, governmental agencies and representatives of groups interested in land use and development issues, and will make public presentations as required.

Fundraising activities assigned to the Community Action Advocate include managing and cultivating a small group of major donor prospects. The fundraising responsibilities of the Community Action Advocate will be overseen by the Deputy Director, and may involve coordination with consultants.

Desirable qualifications for the Community Action Advocate position include:

• At least two years professional experience as community organizer and/or public policy campaign organizer.
  
  
• Familiarity with a range of policy issues including transportation, housing, community development, air quality, water quality, water policy, natural resources, and land conservation.
  
  
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other organizations and agencies to identify and implement policies.
  
  
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to make public presentations to large and small groups, and to write materials used in media outreach, public relations, and board reports as necessary.
  
  
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills including the ability to interact successfully with local officials, community leaders, board members, committees, staff, volunteers and the public, to organize and facilitate meetings and events, and to conduct negotiations, find common ground and develop consensus among disparate interests.
  
  
• Ability effectively to resolve conflicts.
  
  
• A bachelor’s degree.
  
  
• Fluency in both Spanish and English, and a strong familiarity with the Latin American community.

To apply for any of the positions available, please send a letter of interest, resume, and four to five page writing sample to:

Chris Fitz, Deputy Director
LandWatch Monterey County
Box 1876
Salinas, CA 93902
Telephone: 831-759-2824, Ext. 12
FAX: 831-759-2825

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06/05/01