Housing Works VP Advocacy and Organizing

Washington, DC

Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

Housing Works also runs social enterprise businesses that raise millions of dollars every year to help pay for the services that we provide, spread awareness of our mission, and provide jobs to graduates of our Job Training Program. Our best-known businesses are Housing Works Thrift Shops, a chain of upscale thrift shops located throughout New York City, and the Housing Works Bookstore Café, a used bookstore, literary hub and concert venue located in Soho in downtown Manhattan.

Housing Works VP Advocacy and Organizing

Job Duties

• Oversee our contributions to national and global organizing, including supervision of a Director of National organizing and multiple regional  Field Organizers,  peers and volunteers across the country.
• Facilitate advocacy participation by C2EA state chapters and coalition partners
• Carry out advocacy and lobbying work with elected officials and staff in Washington, DC and in selected state capitals
• Lead the development and execution of national and state-level C2EA and Housing Works advocacy campaigns and events
• Unify advocacy messaging for a common domestic-global theme of Universal Access to treatment, prevention, care and support
• Represent Housing Works with global, national, regional and local AIDS, AIDS housing, harm reduction, people of color, LGBT, antipoverty, faith community, public health and other activist organizations and coalitions

Issue Areas:

• HIV/AIDS, including domestic and global initiatives
• AIDS housing, homelessness & supportive housing
• Medicaid, Medicare and other federal health care programs
• Substance abuse and mental health
• Harm reduction
• Civil rights for people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabilities
• LGBT rights

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree preferred
• Understanding of and commitment to aggressive advocacy on HIV/AIDS and homelessness;
• Top-level organizing, writing, supervision and teamwork skills;
• Commitment to development and promotion of advocacy leadership by people living with HIV/AIDS;
• e in writing, editing and electronic communications, including competence in current database, web, and publishing software and hardware, including HTML as necessary;
• Understanding of and commitment to harm reduction principles
• Ability to carry out culturally competent and racially awExperiencare organizing work – ability to speak Spanish and/or other languages a plus;
• Commitment to multi-level advocacy, including direct action and civil disobedience.

Salary based on experience.  Housing Works is an equal opportunity employer and particularly seeks to hire people living with AIDS and HIV and/or other disabilities, people of color, LGBT people, people in recovery, and those with a background of poverty and/or homelessness.

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