Georgia Youth Justice Coalition seeks a full-time ** Senior Manager of Advocacy and Training** to build and run winning campaigns that improve the lived experience of young Georgians most impacted by injustice by developing young organizers, storytellers, and advocates.
About the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition:
Georgia Youth Justice Coalition is a youth-led nonprofit that cultivates youth leadership in democracy. Our work to engage communities, activate youth, and promote civic education empowers young Georgians as changemakers within their communities. Founded as a grassroots youth organization in 2021, Georgia Youth Justice Coalition now maintains an organizing presence in 12 counties and 18 college campuses. To learn more about us, visit georgiayouthjustice.org.
About the Position
As the Senior Manager of Advocacy and Training, you will work directly with the Deputy Executive Director of Organizing and Training, the Advocacy Manager, part-time youth staff, and youth volunteers to ensure that our work translates to policy wins and electoral impact for young Georgians across the state. The ideal candidate for the role is a tactics person who knows that winning campaigns are built by creating opportunities for people to take meaningful action, developing organizers into leaders, and converting rapid response moments and individual campaigns into winning long-term strategy. They are a pragmatic strategist, detail-oriented trainer, and motivational manager with a people-first mentality.
Advocacy Responsibilities
Ideate, manage, and execute campaigns that are dynamic enough to adapt to changing circumstances and thoughtful enough to fit into a long-term strategy.
Manage staff and membership to ensure advocacy goals are consistently met, rooted in organizing and storytelling tactics, and create real victories for young Georgians.
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with organizational partners, elected officials, university professors, and public school teachers in diverse communities.
Training Responsibilities
Develop and implement a robust training plan that builds core competencies across organizing, advocacy, storytelling, data, and voter contact among staff and members.
Educate and activate young Georgians through strong civic engagement and electoral programs that prioritize engagement of our base and true accessibility.
Deepen our culture of sustainability and rigorously analyze data to assess and report the needs of our team, the use of our tools, and the efficacy of our campaigns.
Core Team Member Responsibilities
Ensure the Deputy Executive Director is up-to-date on internal needs and escalate issues as they arise, acting with discretion and handling information with care.
Train youth staff on best practices, core competencies, and hard skills to empower young Georgians to take ownership of the work and achieve organizational goals.
Foster and maintain a positive, productive team culture.
Qualifications
Have at least 2 cycles of full-time paid campaign experience or two years of full-time non-profit experience with at least one cycle or one year of management experience.
Culturally competent in building and maintaining relationships across lines of difference such as race, age, class, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Experience with developing training materials and presenting to people of varying experience levels and diverse backgrounds is preferred.
Strong commitment to progressive values and to do the work that needs to be done
Effective communicator across verbal, interpersonal, and written communication.
Ability to work irregular hours, including nights and weekends.
Self-starter who is intrinsically motivated and able to work independently
Have a driver’s license, automobile insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle.
Working at the Georgia Youth Justice Coalition
This is a full-time, permanent position that reports to the Deputy Executive Director of Organizing and Training. Car travel within the state of Georgia will be required 30-35% for general execution of the role. We offer a generous benefits package which includes unlimited PTO; professional development stipend; and insurance plans for health, dental, and vision. This role is remote, but GYJC maintains an office in Atlanta, GA and applicants must live in or be willing to relocate to Georgia.
Salary: $67,000 - $74,000 based on experience
Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Education, Inc. is committed to diversity among its staff, and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff. Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Education, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote, and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, creed, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, ancestry, military service, veteran’s status or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law. Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Education, Inc. will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.