YIELD Organizer
Position Title: YIELD Organizer
Duration: Full Time, Ongoing, hybrid position
Reports to: Education Pillar Manager
Compensation: $45,000 - $50,000
About Unite Oregon: Unite Oregon is a 501c3 grassroots community organization with three chapters, in Portland, Beaverton, and Medford. We believe that all people can become leaders and agents of change in the areas of racial justice, immigrant and refugee rights, affordable housing, and living wages. Unite Oregon is building a unified intercultural movement for justice
in our state.
Compensation: $45,000 - $50,000 per year; generous and progressive benefits including medical and dental care 100% of premiums paid by Unite Oregon, paid wellness leave, vacation, flex time, and personal days off; technology reimbursement; 4 hours personal time off/week, $300 annual FSA contribution, 2.5% 401K contribution after 6 months.
Position Description
Unite Oregon is seeking experienced staff to support BIPOC, immigrant and refugee, and low-income students through a 9-month leadership development cohort model. Offered to 15-20 students at Chavez and Harrison Park middle schools; the program will engage students in advocacy strategies, community-based organizing practices, and experiential workshops to address barriers to advance education equity. Students will gain experience through practical and relevant curriculum designed to engage, empower, and elevate student voice in our schools. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to self-direct learning to address achievement gaps, disproportionate discipline issues, and institutional barriers in the education system.
Project components include an intensive, annual leadership development training program for two cohorts of students—one from each target school cluster— support in addressing common barriers to education, identifying advocacy tools and practices, and development of a robust youth-led organizing model center around leadership development that is youth-led and adult assisted.
Please note that this is a grant funded position.
Position Responsibilities Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Individual Support
● Ability to relate to and support students from diverse cultural, language, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds primarily culturally-specific students of color.
● Providing 1:1 meetings, maintaining good rapport with students, and providing community resources.
● Providing individualized support to students as necessary to navigate the school system.
● Collecting and disseminating information regarding students issues and concerns.
Parent Education and Communication
● Provide culturally appropriate tools and resources for YIELD students.
● Create and deliver culturally relevant and culturally responsive curriculum designed to support students.
● Understand the barriers/challenges that students of color face within PPS.
● Create peer-to-peer networking communities that provide opportunities for parents to learn, support, and navigate future career paths together with their students.
● Maintaining regular communication with parents throughout the school year.
Programming
● Facilitate and lead issue-based sessions requested by students once a week after school.
● Track data, activities and results of engagement with students.
● Identify issues and potential solutions to increase student attendance and decrease disproportionate discipline.
● Be familiar with and understand the barriers and/or challenges that first generation, students of color, and students face as they transition to college.
● Advise on school-level strategies in support of student empowerment.
● Attend and support in-person events and additional workshops, this may include weekends.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's Degree and/or experience working in education and college preparation programs.
● Ability to relate to and organize students from diverse cultural, language, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds primarily culturally-specific communities of color.
● Experience with recruitment, retention, and community outreach, organizing and engagement strategies in higher education.
● Experience with group facilitation and popular education methods including leading workshops in a multicultural, multilingual setting that include team building activities
and engaging dialogue.
● Excellent project planning and event organizing ability; proven experience conducting workshops, actions, and training.
● Reliable transportation.
● Strong communication, writing, organizational, and data tracking experience.
● Strong commitment to educational equity, social and racial justice.
All interested candidates, please send a resume and cover letter to HR Director Lauren Mittelman at recruitment@uniteoregon.org
This position is open until filled.
Unite Oregon is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and equal access in a non-discriminatory manner to its programs and services for all persons without regard to race, creed, color, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, political affiliation, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any real or perceived sensory, mental, or physical disability.
