Help build the grassroots movement for: Disability Justice. Worker Rights. Human Need over Corporate Greed. Public Health/Education/Welfare. Better Medicaid & Medicare.
Are you an experienced organizer/activist that wants to continue building people power, but wants to work around other life responsibilities or needs a part-time option?
The Alliance for Community Services is a community-labor coalition of people with disabilities, low income families, seniors, unions and community organizations promoting social, racial, disability and economic justice, with a focus on expanding and improving public sector services that meet human needs for health, education, welfare.
The Alliance brings together front-line service workers with consumers of those services to learn from each other, and take action together for the benefit of all.
Current issue priorities include:
To build people power, organizers:
Specific schedule negotiable, but will include some evenings and weekends.
Required qualifications:
Commitment to racial/social/economic/disability justice. Courage. Strong verbal and written communication skills, facility with phone/computer technology, shared documents, email. Experience with organizing/advocacy. Ability to: act independently, juggle multiple tasks, respectfully listen to and engage diverse constituencies, show initiative, motivate others to act on shared values, get yourself to activities/meetings throughout Chicagoland. Willing to recruit/engage persons of diverse abilities and backgrounds.
Preferred:
Lived experience with issues of the Alliance agenda. Three years experience with public policy, legislative campaigns or community organizing. Language other than English (including ASL). Familiar with Chicago or Illinois progressive community.
Location: Staff work remotely but must be based in Illinois, preferably Chicago metro, and participate in required in-person activities. Local grassroots community outreach is a core part of the work.
Help build the grassroots movement for: Disability Justice. Worker Rights. Human Need over Corporate Greed. Public Health/Education/Welfare. Better Medicaid & Medicare.
Are you an experienced organizer/activist that wants to continue building people power, but wants to work around other life responsibilities or needs a part-time option?
The Alliance for Community Services is a community-labor coalition of people with disabilities, low income families, seniors, unions and community organizations promoting social, racial, disability and economic justice, with a focus on expanding and improving public sector services that meet human needs for health, education, welfare.
The Alliance brings together front-line service workers with consumers of those services to learn from each other, and take action together for the benefit of all.
Current issue priorities include:
A job you can believe in, changing the world with committed grassroots volunteers.
FICA. Paid time off.
Independent, flexible schedule, mostly work from home (N.B. some in-person activities are required part of the job, mostly in Chicago metro area).
A job you can believe in, changing the world with committed grassroots volunteers.
FICA. Paid time off.
Independent, flexible schedule, mostly work from home (N.B. some in-person activities are required part of the job, mostly in Chicago metro area).
A core part of the work is verbal and written communication via phone/email /zoom/googledocs.
Strong English proficiency a must. Second language (including ASL) a plus.
A core part of the work is verbal and written communication via phone/email /zoom/googledocs.
Strong English proficiency a must. Second language (including ASL) a plus.