Reimagining Community Safety Manager

Position Title: Reimagining Community Safety Manager

Duration: Full Time, Ongoing

Compensation: $60,000- $70,000 per year with 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.

About Unite Oregon: Unite Oregon is a 501c3 grassroots community organization with chapters in Portland, Beaverton, Clackamas, 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.

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.

Position Description: The Community Safety Project Manager is responsible for engaging the community around the mission of Unite Oregon and organizing, mobilizing, and activating community members, particularly Black Oregonians who are impacted by police violence and other institutionalized racism. This candidate will work with Black Oregonians to build power and create Black-led campaigns, work closely with our campaign partners, particularly Black-led organizations, to impact policy reforms and advance Abolitionist-centered outcomes. This position reports to the Community Development Director. Position open until June 24, 2024 or until filled.

Internal Pro-Black, Abolitionist Analysis

• Convene educational training for staff, board members, and leadership cohorts around Abolition, dismantling anti-blackness and its intersection with Queer and Trans Liberation to help integrate this into all organizational work.

• Work with Unite Oregon leadership to implement a foundational abolitionist framework for all programs and projects

Community Engagement

● Research the feasibility of divest/invest campaigns throughout the state of Oregon

● Help identify "non-reformist reform" policy that will be community-led and focused to shift resources from the Police Bureau and invest in a community-centered health and safety model that is developed in strong partnership with community partners.

● Address the health and safety of Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities by prioritizing solutions identified by the most marginalized community

● Coordinate rallies and community action to galvanize impacted community members

• Coordinate community education around abolition and anti-blackness

• Convene Black leadership cohort

Coalition Support

● Support relevant coalition meetings every month as assigned, including coordination or facilitation.

● Recruit new members, maintaining a balanced diversity of members

● Work with coalitions to hold appropriate training, events, fieldwork, and meetings

Policy Advocacy

• Work with Black-led Campaign partners and organizations to impact policy through an abolitionist framework

• Support Unite Oregon Black, Black/Immigrant, and refugee policy table priorities for the Oregon legislative sessions

• Support legislative sessions & lobby days as needed

General Support and Administration

● Attend staff meetings, lobby, and fundraising events as requested

● Maintain communications with members and staff as required

● Track all work using database files

Project Management

• Lead Reimagining Community Safety campaigns and coordinate with the policy team

• Manage and track grants

• Track project expenses and deliverables

• Manage project invoices

• Coordinate communication support for Reimagining Community Safety projects both internally and externally

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage staff, interns, and volunteers as assigned

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Ability to work independently and take initiative, while maintaining solid communication with the team

• Experience working on social justice issues with diverse communities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Availability to work during evenings and weekends, as needed