Jobs

We want you on our team! The SURJ national staff is a growing community of organizers and leaders who are committed to personal and systemic transformation. We work on local, state, regional, and national campaigns to move majority-white communities into action for racial and economic justice. All positions are remote with some travel required throughout the year. Applicants from the region we’re trying to hire in and from poor and working-class backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Current Openings:

 

External Media Specialist

Full Time, Remote, $67,500

SURJ is seeking an External Media Specialist to support the work of the Communications Department by driving the implementation of the organization’s earned media and press relations program. Our ideal candidate will bring strong communications chops working with diverse audiences in a political/movement context and a detailed and relational orientation to communication tasks.

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Appalachian People’s Union Distributed Organizer

Full Time, Remote, $67,500

SURJ is seeking an APU Distributed Organizer to create a distributed infrastructure to recruit and train a large base of members who can win campaigns in Kentucky and Appalachia. This will include developing a program to scale our Southern work through mass absorption, online to offline recruitment techniques, social media and cultural ways to bring people in. This work also includes using a set of skills, technology, mass trainings, and developing plans with local organizers to build a broader distributed organizing program. Specifically, the Distributed Organizer will grow and maintain infrastructure to cast a wide net and create the systems and infrastructure needed for organizers on the ground to absorb new people, while also creating new campaigns across the state by developing leaders to organize where they live. This includes creating online meeting spaces, managing data integration, and running phone and text banks with local organizers.

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Grants and Foundations Manager

Full Time, Remote, $85,000

SURJ is seeking a Grants and Foundation Manager to support all institutional giving at SURJ, ranging from prospecting, proposal writing, submissions, reporting, and general grants management. A successful person in this role will have exceptional writing skills and enjoy managing a large portfolio of institutional funders ranging from large multi-year investments ($500,000 and above) to smaller one-time grant opportunities ($5,000 – $25,000). SURJ Development encompasses a holistic approach to cultivating engagement, participation and financial support for the work and mission of SURJ. We combine political education, organizing, and leadership development to grow donors’ investment in the essential work of SURJ and the broader movement for racial
justice and dismantling white supremacy.

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Appalachian Peoples Union Director

Full Time, Remote, $85,000

Drawing on the deep history of Appalachian freedom fighters, Appalachian People’s Union (APU) brings working white Appalachian people into local community campaigns fighting for justice in the Appalachian region of the South. The Director is responsible for being a lead strategist focused on working class, majority white, rural Appalachian Kentucky communities. This position will supervise organizing staff and ensure coordination between other SURJ projects working in Appalachian states. The Appalachian Organizing Director will also hold key relationships in the region, particularly with key organizing partners who are aligned with SURJ.

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Senior Donor Organizer

Full Time, Remote, $90,000

SURJ is proud that the majority of our funding comes from individual donors. The Senior Donor Organizer will work closely with the Director of Impact, the Deputy Development Director, the SURJ Board, the Impact Team, and SURJ organizers to build out a donor community and increase the number and size of major gift contributions ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, including holding some relationships who contribute more. This role will also work with the Deputy Development Director, the Impact Team, and organizers to build systems that effectively steward donor relationships at all levels.This position includes domestic travel 15-25% of the Time. SURJ is aiming to build a distributed culture of fundraising, which means that this position will be focused not just on raising money directly, but will also work with a broad group of individuals to build fundraising skills and make asks.

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