Senior Organizer

About ACCE:

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is dedicated to raising the

voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, so that current and future

generations have the ability to live in stronger communities and have access to expanded

opportunities.

ACCE is a statewide community organization working with thousands of members across the

state to create transformative change by helping ordinary citizens to organize and take action.

Some of ACCE’s priority program areas include:

• Defending vital services by reforming California’s broken fiscal system
• Giving our children the opportunity to succeed through sound education reform
• Fighting for affordable and secure housing by holding banks and corporations

accountable for their bad business practices; and

• Improving access to health care

Please note that ACCE does not provide community services. Rather, we work directly in

neighborhoods with local residents to advocate for the change they want to see in their

communities.

About the Position: ACCE is looking for an experienced organizer who can build community

chapters, run issue campaigns, and has aspirations of running a local ACCE office. The role of

an ACCE Senior Organizer is to build a community organization of motivated, empowered, and

mobilized community leaders who act collectively, strategically, and powerfully to win on issues

of importance to their families and to their neighborhoods. ACCE organizers build rapport in

communities first by talking with residents about the changes they want to see in their local

communities and beyond. They then move those conversations into organized action by

preparing and training community leaders to research key issues, hold meetings and trainings

with other community members, and develop thoughtful campaign strategies that help lead them

to local wins and broader victories.

The lists of Key Duties and Responsibilities below are not all-encompassing of job

responsibilities related to each position. Occasionally, you may be asked to perform additional

duties as directed by your supervisor.

Location: This position can be based in the Sacramento ACCE office.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Participation in organizer trainings. Topics that will likely be covered include:

o Membership recruitment and dues collection

o How to carry out an organizing drive

o Basic leadership development methods

o Key elements of successful organizing campaign

o Grassroots fundraising techniques including but not limited to individual donor

fundraising and business sustainer programs

• Spend at least 4 hours per day Identifying and recruiting new community leaders

o Minimum standard = 5 new dues paying members per month

• Assess and develop new community leaders through meetings, trainings, phone calls, and

home visits.

• Work with the members and elected leadership, of at least one (but often 2-3) chapter(s),

to plan and carry out organizing meetings, actions, press conferences, and other public

events

• Learn and utilize introductory grassroots fundraising techniques including but not limited

to individual donor fundraising and business sustainer programs

• Full participation in occasional out-of-town organizational meetings & trainings

Key Qualifications

• Belief in organizing for power and commitment to social justice.
• 3 or more years of organizing experience (demonstrated ability to effectively recruit

previously unorganized individuals and move them into collective action to win policy or

practice shifts)

• Ability to take initiative and be creative
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills appropriate to providing a quality member

experience including the ability to establish and cultivate respectful relationships with

people from diverse backgrounds.

• Sound organizational skills to manage and prioritize work subject to deadlines in a

dynamic and changing environment.

• Baseline computer literacy, including the ability to effectively use Microsoft Word and

Excel, as well as ACCE membership and voter databases.

• Ability to walk at least 4 hours per day