Organizing Trainer Consultant

Part-time Bilingual (Spanish) Organizing Trainer Consultant

A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.

Work to take place in August & September 2024

Proyecto Faro / Project Lighthouse is an immigrant-led, grassroots organization located in Rockland County, NY. Our mission is to build a community in Rockland in which all people can feel safe, thrive, and actively contribute to their families and communities regardless of their immigration status.

We work toward systemic change through leadership development, community organizing, trust-building and cultivating community power.

Over the past four years, Proyecto Faro has been actively involved in a coalition of organizations fighting for educational justice for the public-school children of the East Ramapo Central School District (ERCSD).

ERCSD public schools are 96% students of color, many of whom are newly arrived immigrants, and has the largest concentration of English-language learners in any school district in New York State.

For nearly 15 years, the majority-white ERCSD school board, representing the local private-school community, has systematically defunded this high-needs public-school system, resulting in overcrowded, dangerous school conditions that lack the most basic educational resources and adequate staffing.

Our coalition is organizing to hold the ERCSD school board accountable for failing to provide a quality education for its public-school students guaranteed under State law.

Since 2022, Proyecto Faro has been building the organizing capacity and leadership skills of a group of immigrant public-school parents called Organización de Padres Empoderados / Empowered Parents (OPE).

OPE has become active contributors to the campaign for educational justice for ERCSD public-school students.

Proyecto Faro is seeking a part-time organizing consultant to train OPE leaders in August to deepen their campaign lobbying, local base-building, and organizing skills and to help our OPE and Proyecto Faro team develop a year-long ERCSD parent empowerment campaign.

The consultant will work closely with Proyecto Faro staff and board to develop three training modules on New York State lobbying and local, grassroots organizing strategies.

The trainer will co-facilitate these trainings and two parent leader campaign planning sessions. Trainings and planning sessions will take place in Spanish over two weeks during 2-hour evening and weekend sessions in mid- to late-August.

In September, the consultant will provide support to OPE leaders to help them launch their campaign.

The consultant will be responsible for 50 hours of work, including :

• 20-25 hours of planning for training sessions with Proyecto Faro staff
• Co-facilitating five (5) 2-hour training sessions
• Co-creating with Proyecto Faro staff training and campaign assessments
• Advising and supporting OPE during the launch of their parent empowerment campaign in September 2024

We are seeking candidates who have experience :

• working on educational and / or immigrant justice campaigns
• working on multilingual and cross-racial campaigns
• working on organizing campaigns led by impacted communities
• developing strategies aimed at achieving specific policy change within NY State’s political structure
• organizing within a context of grassroots coalitions
• developing training materials and methodologies

Candidate must be bilingual (Spanish / English).

Compensation is $50-$75 per hour, depending on experience.

Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected].

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