Minnesota Organizer : Minnesota

ROC
Restaurant Opportunities Center United

Minnesota Organizer

Based in Minnesota

Founded shortly after September 11th, 2001 to support the surviving families and restaurant workers from Windows on the World, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) has grown into a national organization with thousands of low-wage restaurant worker members in 10 of the top 20 metro regions in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. Our mission is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s restaurant workforce.

Over the last 19 years, ROC United has won over $10 million in misappropriated tips and wages and discrimination payments for low-wage workers, and significant policy changes in high-profile fine dining restaurant companies covering thousands of workers. ROC has partnered with hundreds of responsible restaurant owners to promote the ‘high road’ to profitability, and trained more than 5,000 restaurant workers to advance to livable wage jobs within the industry.

POSITION DESCRIPTION
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

1. Grows and develops worker membership and leadership
   • Recruits restaurant workers to become dues-paying members, activists, and leaders at ROC. Conducts weekly outreach to restaurant workers, and engages worker leaders in doing the same
   • 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
   • Properly uses tracking methods for contacts and membership, including inputting and updating data in EveryAction
   • Plans, organizes, and facilitates membership meetings and events
2. 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
3. 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; and
• 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 or 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, electroic communication, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook, internet searches, troubleshooting wi-fi, etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Restaurant work experience
• Fluent in Spanish or other industry-appropriate language
• A valid driver’s license and access to an operating car with insurance
• Knowledge of Every Action and/or the Voter Access Network
• Experience with digital organizing and moving people from online to offline action; and
• Knowledge of local politics, geography, and history

Working Conditions:
Organizers are required to work long and irregular hours including work on weekends and on holidays as necessary. The work of an organizer necessitates flexibility as demands and priorities for a particular campaign or the overall organization shift. It is expected that organizers be available during the times that workers in their assigned area are available at their work site, home, or other locale. You may be required to travel.

Compensation :
The salary range is $45,547 – $53,061 based upon experience. Generous benefits, including health and dental coverage, retirement plan, paid vacation, personal days, and holidays. This is a full-time, exempt position. Salary commensurate with experience. Women, immigrants, people of color, and LGBT+ are strongly encouraged to apply.

To Apply
Please send cover letter, résumé, and three (3) references to ROC-MN Lead Organizer Eli Edleson-Stein eli@rocunited.org. Please write “ROC-MN Organizer Position” in the subject line of your email.

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