Communications Director - Oakland, United States - Oakland Rising

Description

Oakland, CA, US

• Salary Range: $90,000.00 To 95,000.00 Annually

Oakland Rising and Oakland Rising Action

Communication Director

Overview

Oakland Rising (OR), a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund, is a collaboration of social justice organizations that have a long-term, shared vision for winning a community-based political infrastructure and governing majority in Oakland that centers racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Over the past eight years, OR's political operation has grown into one of the largest, longest-lasting, and most sophisticated programs in the area.

It has built a voter base in Oakland's working-class, immigrant, and communities of color neighborhoods that makes up more than 25% of the city's electorate.

OR has helped to craft and win policies for racial, economic, and environmental justice while promoting a vision for transformational governance in Oakland and beyond.

This position is shared with our sister entity Oakland Rising Action (ORA), a separate 501(c)4.

Who We Are

OR works to build the power of working-class families, immigrants, and people of color in Oakland to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice.

OR plays three key roles to achieve our mission:

• Builds and exercises progressive electoral power through integrated strategies, including basebuilding and policy advocacy.
• Aligns and coordinates citywide and regional progressive forces through our collaborative model to build power & profile for the social justice movement.
• Recruits, trains, advances and supports progressive leaders who lead in a collaborative, accountable and valuesbased way that centers social justice.

Oakland Rising's partner organizations include:

Asian Pacific Islanders for Environmental Justice (APEN), Causa Justa/Just Cause (CJJC), Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ), East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), Parent Voices Oakland (PVO), and St.

Mary's Center.

Oakland Rising Action's steering committee includes: community leaders, APEN Action, Dream Beyond Bars Action Fund, East Bay Action Fund, and Ella Baker Center Action.

The Opportunity

The Communications Director will _work_ closely with the OR/ORA Leadership Team (Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships Director, Political Director and Operations Director) and the Communications Organizer to raise and strengthen OR/A's _work_ as a progressive political _home_ and utilize a communications strategy to activate working class, poor, and formerly-incarcerated Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color in flatland communities in Oakland and Alameda County.

The Communications Director, while providing visionary strategic and operational communications expertise and leadership, will manage communications-led projects to deploy communications strategies for maximum impact and link communications to advocacy and organizing for social change and political power.

They collaborate with other OR/A teams, such as Programs, Operations, and Fundraising Teams and collaborative partners and allies. The Communications Director reports directly to the Executive Director, and supervises the Communications Organizer.

Communications & Thought Leadership Strategy

• Lead a process to develop and ensure with clear systems the execution of a comprehensive communication strategic plan that aligns with OR/A's mission goals and current political conditions
• Define and successfully drive short

- and long-term objectives aligned with the organization's mission, priorities, and communications strategy

• Ensure a clear, compelling, and consistent branding and message across all platforms, emphasizing the organization's thought leadership as a progressive political _home_ for OR/A's base
• In collaboration with OR/A staff, collaborative partners, and coalition allies develop messaging toplines and talking points tailored for various audiences, both internal guidance and direction and external coalitions
• Ensure the organization's brand resonates with and inspires increased investment and engagement of funders and donors.
• Design media training for staff and collaborative partner organizations leadership and members.
• Build and safeguard the organization's reputation online by overseeing website and social media strategy, including branding, visual identity, and style guidelines

Project Direction

• Supervise and insure the alignment of the various communicationled projects to OR/A's mission, purpose, priorities, and communications strategic plan
• Supervise the successful advancement of various communicationsled projects which include
• Arts, Culture, and Democracy
• Voter Guides

• Monday Meals

• OR IG Live Events
• Storytelling collection
• Adhoc projects
• Communications assets: website, social media accounts, texting programs
• Support digital and onlinetooff