GetEQUAL Co-Director Job Description
NEW DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2017!
Since our launch in 2010, GetEQUAL has been disrupting and challenging the LGBTQ movement. Proudly occupying the “left flank” of the LGBTQ movement in our political analysis, and actively utilizing direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience when needed to actualize that analysis, GetEQUAL is working to align, amplify, and support the struggle and movement for LGBTQ liberation. While there has undoubtedly been progress in both political and policy realms over the past 10 years, the vast majority of LGBTQ people -- especially LGBTQ people of color, trans* folks, and LGBTQ people living in rural areas -- have struggled to benefit from many of those wins due to the structural oppression caused by white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy that the DC-centered branch of the LGBTQ movement not only keeps in place, but benefits from.
It is in this moment that GetEQUAL is announcing a search for a new leader in our work to continue the call for queer and trans liberation -- not decades from now, but right now.
If you join the team, you’ll be working closely with GetEQUAL’s partners to help usher the organization and the liberation movement into a new phase of its evolution. The position itself is flexible.
Who are we looking for? We’re looking for:
What do you need to be able to do? In short, just about everything. We’re looking for:
What would the work look like?
What is the compensation for the position? Compensation will be dependent on your experience and your role within the broader team. As an organization, we value justice -- and that extends to our staff team, as well as the world. The compensation for this position will reflect the intensity of the work -- but the rate of pay shouldn’t be the driving factor behind your application.
What is not important to us? Your first language doesn’t need to be English, you don’t need a college degree, and you don’t need to live anywhere specific. We work where we live, and there’s no need to leave your community to get the job done.You don’t need to have worked in the nonprofit sector for 5-7 years, or any other arbitrary benchmarks that have no bearing on a person’s ability to organize well.
How to apply:
If you’ve gotten through this description of who we’re looking for, and you think you might be the person for the job, we want to talk with you. We’re looking to hire quickly because there are never enough hands to do all the work -- so reach out to us ASAP or apply via Facebook with a description of your organizing experience (via a resume or a story or even a video), and your responses to these two questions: (Maximum of 500 words.)
1. Tell us why you want to work with GetEQUAL in this particular moment in the fight for LGBTQ rights
2. What is your vision for the most powerful movement toward LGBTQ Liberation?
NEW DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2017!
Since our launch in 2010, GetEQUAL has been disrupting and challenging the LGBTQ movement. Proudly occupying the “left flank” of the LGBTQ movement in our political analysis, and actively utilizing direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience when needed to actualize that analysis, GetEQUAL is working to align, amplify, and support the struggle and movement for LGBTQ liberation. While there has undoubtedly been progress in both political and policy realms over the past 10 years, the vast majority of LGBTQ people -- especially LGBTQ people of color, trans* folks, and LGBTQ people living in rural areas -- have struggled to benefit from many of those wins due to the structural oppression caused by white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy that the DC-centered branch of the LGBTQ movement not only keeps in place, but benefits from.
It is in this moment that GetEQUAL is announcing a search for a new leader in our work to continue the call for queer and trans liberation -- not decades from now, but right now.
If you join the team, you’ll be working closely with GetEQUAL’s partners to help usher the organization and the liberation movement into a new phase of its evolution. The position itself is flexible.
Who are we looking for? We’re looking for:
- Passionate organizers at heart, committed to the idea that queer and trans people should be able to live our most liberated lives. GetEQUAL’s driving vision for LGBTQ liberation is rooted in values and strategies that understands how anti-Blackness, racism, patriarchy, and class bias create barriers to LGBTQ liberation, and that these systems must be challenged in all areas of our work and society. We need for you to not only share that vision, but add in your experience to make it a reality.
- Someone who has cultivated trusting relationships across the LGBTQ community and grassroots movements. Ideal candidates have a track record of raising resources and getting buy-in for bold, grassroots campaigns and movement building projects.
- Someone with experience working with and centering undocumented communities and trans folks of color.
- Motivated leaders with immense flexibility, a giant heart, ridiculous amounts of patience, and a knack for creative and innovative approaches to organizing.
What do you need to be able to do? In short, just about everything. We’re looking for:
- Candidates with a wide range of skills and experience in developing strategy and tactics for grassroots campaigns and expertise in supporting LGBTQ people of color in building sustainable community groups.
- A public voice for the organization, that can build across movements and articulate the vision, values and strategy of our work to activists, coalition partners, political leaders, media, and donors.
- Someone who can manage a team of organizers across the country, and is excited about creating (and holding people accountable to) benchmarks.
- Leaders with a fierce sense of integrity and justice, willing to put pressure on those who can move us toward the actualization of LGBTQ liberation -- even when that process involves targeting traditional political allies.
What would the work look like?
- Your work could include any number of things including campaign management, field strategy, strategic planning, coalition-building, fundraising, and much more -- it all depends on what skills you bring to the table, how much imagination you have, and how your skills/imagination fit with the current team.
- There will be a lot of travel required, since it’s vitally important that the person joining our team is deeply connected to organizing happening in towns, states, and across communities on the ground.
What is the compensation for the position? Compensation will be dependent on your experience and your role within the broader team. As an organization, we value justice -- and that extends to our staff team, as well as the world. The compensation for this position will reflect the intensity of the work -- but the rate of pay shouldn’t be the driving factor behind your application.
What is not important to us? Your first language doesn’t need to be English, you don’t need a college degree, and you don’t need to live anywhere specific. We work where we live, and there’s no need to leave your community to get the job done.You don’t need to have worked in the nonprofit sector for 5-7 years, or any other arbitrary benchmarks that have no bearing on a person’s ability to organize well.
How to apply:
If you’ve gotten through this description of who we’re looking for, and you think you might be the person for the job, we want to talk with you. We’re looking to hire quickly because there are never enough hands to do all the work -- so reach out to us ASAP or apply via Facebook with a description of your organizing experience (via a resume or a story or even a video), and your responses to these two questions: (Maximum of 500 words.)
1. Tell us why you want to work with GetEQUAL in this particular moment in the fight for LGBTQ rights
2. What is your vision for the most powerful movement toward LGBTQ Liberation?
