Community Organizer

Start Date: 6/3/2024 (flexible)

Starting Hourly Wage: $19.23-$21.63

This role is hourly and nonexempt (eligible for overtime).

MWA’s payscale can be provided by request

Full-time: 40 Hours per week

Benefits include: Fully-paid health, dental, and vision insurance premiums, a matching retirement plan, and generous paid time off

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We’re hiring a Community Organizer to do real grassroots work at our small but mighty nonprofit organization. MWA works to empower communities both locally and downstream, to transition towards sustainable, resilient, equitable economies and healthy environments where all beings can thrive. MWA’s goal is a world where everyone understands that what affects one of us, affects all of us because that’s how watersheds work.

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The Community Organizer will work to support and mobilize residents who are directly impacted by shale gas, petrochemical, coal, and other development that threaten our climate, ecosystems, water, and quality of life in the Youghiogheny River Watershed and broader Ohio River Valley.

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This role will:

👥ORGANIZE & ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY:

Actively engage with a diversity of individuals and communities throughout the Youghiogheny River Watershed and greater Ohio River Valley region. Work with community leaders to host and promote local meetings & initiatives. Develop and provide trainings, support, and information so residents are better equipped to advocate for their communities.

📢MOBILIZE:

Mobilize residents for events, actions, and meetings across the region through direct outreach (phone calls, mailings, e-mails, canvassing, etc).

✍️STORYTELL:

Identify and take advantage of opportunities to amplify impacted communities’ stories throughout the region via social media, the placement of letters to the editor, op-eds, and interview opportunities.

🤝COLLABORATE:

Collaborate with other organizations & coalitions to support regional campaigns & initiatives in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the broader Ohio River Valley.

See full job description here.

We are looking for:

• Active listeners
• People with compassion-driven ethics
• Speakers and writers that can adapt to engage an audience
• Aptitude and desire for working within a nonprofit within a rural environment
• Comfortable working in the field to assist with environmental sampling and monitoring efforts

Required Qualities & Occupational Mindsets:

• Demonstrated leadership capability and ability to work well with a wide variety of people.
• Experience living or working in the Youghiogheny River Watershed or rural communities in the broader Ohio River Valley preferred.
• Ability to multitask, adapt to changing situations, think creatively, and to work well under pressure.
• Ability to work out of our Melcroft, PA office with occasional overnight travel required (i.e. for regional conferences).
• Self-motivated, independent worker
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work effectively and creatively with diverse people and organizations
• Proficiency in Google Docs, Gmail, Office Suite, and social media and willingness to develop additional skills.

How to apply:

📧Email apply@mtwatershed.com with the following information:

Resume

Writing sample ex: publication, blog, letter to the editor, long-form email, distributed communication

Note: A cover letter is not required but will be considered if the applicant chooses to submit one.

🕒Timeline:

Within 5 business days of receiving your initial email, we will send a confirmation email so you know we received your application.

Initial screening calls will take place on a rolling basis as applications are received. Early applications are strongly encouraged.

This position is open until filled, with applications submitted by 5/15/24 given full consideration.

The intended start date is 6/3/24, but this is flexible.

We will contact all applicants with a decision email by 7/15/24.

💭Questions?

Email apply@mtwatershed.com

Call 724-455-4200 x8

Youghiogheny River Watershed: