Community Organizer - The Gorge

Job Title: Community Organizer - The Gorge

Job Homebase: 3525 Crates Way, The Dalles, OR 97058

Site requirement: Hybrid

Reports To: Statewide Organizing Manager

Pay Grade & Hiring SalaryStep: Grade 3 $62,756-$70,824

Job Description last approved: October 2023

Internal Code: 3000

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and

its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is

not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to

employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s

why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to

help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support

and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from

candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to

eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek

individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is

stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or

hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at

oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all

that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt

systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism.  You have a strong

affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our

community.

Position Summary:

As a Community Organizer, you will contribute to the organization’s success through building an ever

growing base of community leaders in The Gorge (Hood River, Wasco, Sherman Counties) and moving

these leaders through increasing levels of commitment. From recruitment, to political education, non-

partisan electoral organizing, to leadership development - the Community Organizer ensures that we

are building political power to advance systems and policy change to end hunger and its root causes.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

● Build and support a community leadership team that co-creates and implements grassroots

organizing strategies & tactics in support of our priority policy change campaigns.

● Engage community members in all aspects of our statewide field organizing program, including

Ending Hunger Power Nights, 1 on 1s, Leader Camps, phone banks, relational organizing and

other analysis, skills building and action tactics that increase levels of commitment and

leadership.

● Lead and/or participate in programmatic elements of statewide field organizing program such as

Ending Hunger Power Nights, community forums, and educational workshops and other

community-building events & activities with a focus on building political power.

● Mobilize people to actions and events through phone banking, texting, canvassing (door-to-

door), & digital organizing, etc.

● Participate in co-leading organizing trainings within OFB, with our organizational partners or

with community members.

● Identify leaders who want to participate in sharing their stories and expertise in media,

legislative testimony or other communications and advocacy strategies.

● Based on capacity and as assigned, provide on the ground support to local organizing campaigns

& coalitions aligned with our priorities.

● Participate fully in cross-department teams as assigned or as critical to position responsibilities.

● Participate fully in OFB’s Advocacy, Volunteer and Organizing Team, share leadership across the

team in peer to peer collaboration and team development.

● Participate fully in OFB’s organizational planning processes, data and technology systems,

lobbying and finance tracking processes and organizational equity journey.

● Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:

o To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental

collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good